Animal cruelty News

Shanghai - Around 600 cats were rescued from Putuo district in Shanghai, when a man was caught transporting them in small crates to sell them for their fur and meat.

Pipestone - An undercover investigation by an animal rights group has revealed shocking abuse of pigs at a Minnesota factory farm that supplies pork products to Walmart, the world's largest retailer.

Animal rights activists raided a Brazilian facility where animals are subjected to horrific drug testing abuses, liberating some 200 Beagle dogs.

A leading Canadian animal rights group has released secretly-shot video footage of cruelty and abuse of chickens at two Alberta farms.

Madrid - Each year, the town of Tordesillas in the Valladolid province of Castile & León, central Spain holds a brutal event dating back to medieval times in which a bull is slaughtered by people on horseback and on foot. Saturday's protest was against this.

After messages asking members of the pop band to follow her on Twitter go unanswered, an obsessed fan allegedly kills her dog.

Brantford - The Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals did not release the name of the Canadian couple charged with cruelty to animals in late August after 40 pythons were found in a hotel.

Stevenson - A Washington state father will not face animal cruelty charges for blowing up his family dog because prosecutors said the animal died instantly and therefore did not suffer.

North Ridgeville - The Ohio Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA) is pushing for animal cruelty charges against a North Ridgeville, Ohio police officer Barry Accorti, after he shot and killed five kittens.

A 12-year-old Ottawa, Ontario, cat, Napolean, got so fat he could not clean his fur, matted with his own feces. So fat and in so much pain and poor health, the cat was euthanized by the city's humane society. Now his owner may go to jail.