
California’s Coastal Commission bowed to left-wing animal rights activists with approval of an amendment stripping SeaWorld of the ability to breed killer whales as a condition of building a massive new $100 million habitat expansion for the orcas living there now.
by Michelle Moons9 Oct 2015, 10:55 AM PST0

One California man is creating a world of change for dogs in China and Korea that are suffering brutal, torturous deaths in “puppy mills.”
by Adelle Nazarian7 Oct 2015, 5:49 AM PST0

Another day, another heart-rending, animal-related tweet from Ricky Gervais, who has abandoned his once promising career as an irreverent and outspoken comedian in order to capitalise on the internet’s insatiable appetite for stories about cats, puppies and social injustice. RIP
by James Delingpole28 Jul 2015, 1:05 PM PST0

A city ordinance banning the use of horses to pull the traditional carriages around Rome went into effect Thursday, in response to a wave of 100+ degree weather that is said to threaten the horses’s lives.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.17 Jul 2015, 10:04 PM PST0

The Charity Commission has rejected a request made by a Holocaust survivor to investigate a newly elected Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals (RSPCA) board member who compared the mass murder of Jews to farming. Agnes Grunwald-Spier,
by Liam Deacon30 Jun 2015, 10:27 AM PST0

Yang Xiaoyun, a 65-year-old retired schoolteacher, traveled 1,500 across China to the Yulin Dog Festival, where she bought 100 dogs with $1,000 and saved them from being dismembered alive, cooked, and served with lychees to celebrate the summer solstice.
by Frances Martel23 Jun 2015, 11:42 AM PST0

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), formerly one of Britain’s most respected charities, has elected a radical vegan who compared farming to the Holocaust to its governing board. Peta Watson-Smith, who outraged Jewish leaders with
by Nick Hallett20 Jun 2015, 7:42 AM PST0

A Kim Kardashian New York City book signing was crashed Tuesday by roughly ten animal rights activists, who confronted the reality TV star about her fondness for fur.
by Kipp Jones6 May 2015, 4:37 PM PST0

The Tibetan mastiff, a large dog breed once so prized among China’s elite that each sold for between $130,000 and $250,000, have become so unpopular that slaughterhouses will pay $5 for them.
by Mary Chastain18 Apr 2015, 11:33 AM PST0

A huntress has been inundated with death threats after comedian Ricky Gervais posted a picture of her posing next to one of her kills. Rebecca Francis, who hunts with a bow and arrow, is one of America’s premiere hunters. She
by Donna Rachel Edmunds15 Apr 2015, 9:59 AM PST0

In a remarkable turn of events, Virginia legislators reportedly have had to step in to protect animals from PETA, which runs a gulag-style animal shelter at its headquarters on the banks of the St. Elizabeth River that euthanized over 80 percent of the animals in its care in 2014.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.18 Mar 2015, 6:36 AM PST0

Fallout from the Blackfish documentary, and continued activist criticism, may be to blame for SeaWorld’s disappointing 2014 earnings report, which still shows a downward decline. Park attendance was down only a small amount–22.4 million in 2014, versus 23.4 million in 2013. Earnings, however, suffered more.
by Michelle Moons28 Feb 2015, 4:30 AM PST0

An Encorse, Michigan, man was arrested and charged with abandonment, animal cruelty, and torture after his dog was found frozen to the ground last week.
by Warner Todd Huston24 Feb 2015, 6:22 PM PST0

Small business owner Tawni Angel has won the first round of her court battle against a radical animal rights activist who is attempting to ban Angel’s popular pony rides from a weekly Santa Monica farmers’ market. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lisa Hart-Cole ruled last Thursday that Angel’s lawsuit against activist Marcy Winograd can proceed, finding that Angel demonstrated a “sufficient probability of prevailing” on the question of whether Winograd had defamed her.
by Joel B. Pollak27 Jan 2015, 5:32 AM PST0

Beyonce and Jay-Z came under fire from an animal rights group after taking photos with a tiger cub during a recent trip to Thailand.
by Daniel Nussbaum6 Jan 2015, 2:37 PM PST0