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A Virginia judge was left speechless after he heard the case of a man accused of performing sex acts on one of eight dogs.

VIENNA (AP) — An Austrian court has found 12 men guilty of cruelty to animals for causing 79 sheep unnecessary suffering while slaughtering them.

A Texas pup is recovering today after being left inside the sweltering heat of a car. The dog’s owner finds himself in legal trouble and may lose his rights to the dog.

A mailman in Alabama has been arrested and charged with feeding a dog meatballs contaminated with nails

Comedian Mike Epps has been accused of mistreating an animal after cameras caught the Hangover star dancing onstage alongside a harnessed kangaroo Friday night during a Festival of Laughs comedy tour show in Detroit.

Actress Joanna Lumley and television presenter Selina Scott provide some star power for the Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) campaign to put an end to the “horribly cruel” practice of exporting live animals over long distances in cramped, unsanitary conditions, often to countries where animal welfare falls well short of British standards.

Texas police officers, working with the Houston Humane Society, rescued eight horses suffering from malnourishment and abuse.

HOUSTON, Texas — Law enforcement officials in Harris County, Texas, have filed criminal charges against a pair that abandoned a pup in a house.

Houston police officers are searching for a man seen in a security video stabbing a family’s dog with a knife through their fence. The dog survived the attack but required medical attention.

Sheriff’s deputies outside Waco, Texas, are investigating an animal cruelty case after people reported a Snapchat video showing several youths shooting a dog and then shoving firecrackers inside its body. They later set the dog on fire and watched it burn.

A Baylor University football player is facing disciplinary action after a graphic video emerged showing him beating and kicking a yelping dog. A fellow player videoed the assault and put it on social media.

After suffering from poor treatment at a farm in Gaza, an Israeli horse named Ohio has now safely returned home.

Police are investigating the case of a Houston man who was shot in the neck by his neighbor. The neighbor allegedly became enraged upon seeing the victim beating his dog.

A Fontana resident faces charges of animal cruelty after his Chihuahua allegedly digested methamphetamine and went into convulsions.

Police in South Carolina have arrested two men after being alerted to a video posted on social media, showing the pair torturing chained dogs with exploding fireworks.

A Tustin man originally arrested for an outstanding warrant and possession of drug paraphernalia has now been charged with animal cruelty for allegedly “getting his dog high on meth [and] heroin.”

A California man faces animal cruelty charges after authorities say his dog tested positive for both meth and heroin.

According to police, a Kokomo, Indiana, robbery suspect fled the scene after his would-be victim drew her gun in self-defense.

A contractor for CenterPoint Energy in Houston struck two family pet dogs in the head with a large wrench. The two dogs did not appear aggressive and did not appear to engage after being hit.

Two beachgoers discovered a grisly and heartbreaking account of animal cruelty last week when they found a dead dog tied to a shovel on Mother’s Beach in Marina Del Rey. Now, several animal rights organizations are contributing funds to catch the person responsible for the crime.

Famed “Dog Whisperer” Cesar Millan is being investigated for alleged animal cruelty in Los Angeles, California.

A Chicago teenager has been arrested and accused of torturing an animal after he posted a video on Facebook showing him allegedly pouring boiling water on a cat. After the video went viral on Tuesday, February 2, Chicago Police arrested

Video of a woman throwing her small dog in Fairfield, California is receiving a lot of attention–attention that may lead to charges against her. Surveillance video from outside a home shows Brandy Chin walking with the dog, then throwing it onto

The North Carolina woman who caused outrage on Facebook after posting a photo of her dog with its muzzle clamped shut with duct tape to keep it from barking appeared in court this week to face animal cruelty charges.

TMZ reports that Kylie Jenner is being investigated by Los Angeles County Animal Control over complaints that one of her dogs appears to be too thin.

The FBI has announced that starting next year it will be adding a new category to its crime statistics reporting and for the first time will begin tracking crimes of animal cruelty.

A viral trend involving placing cucumbers behind cats has been deemed cruel and harmful behavior by some experts.

A Texas woman has pleaded guilty to having made various animal torture fetish videos. In the videos, she tortured, suffocated or hacked puppies, kittens, and chicks alive.

In a recent op-ed in the Hartford Courant, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) defended Planned Parenthood amid the stream of gruesome investigative videos in which top medical personnel of the abortion giant are shown discussing how to harvest the body parts of aborted babies for potential sale to biomedical companies.

A South Carolina mother of three remains in jail on a grocery list of criminal charges, including felony child abuse, child neglect, and animal cruelty. One veteran deputy sheriff on scene said he had “never seen anything like it in my 20 years doing this.”

Petco accidentally cooked a customer’s golden retriever in an oven-like dryer cage. Allison Marks, the owner of the dog, is devastated by the loss of her two-year old golden retriever, Colby. She took him for routine grooming and he died after being left in a drying cage.

Here’s how New York magazine describes The Briefcase, a new show on CBS that’s about to enter its third week. The Briefcase, premiering on CBS at 8 p.m. Wednesday, features “American families experiencing financial setbacks,” to use the network’s terminology. The family

The RSPCA has once again been accused of cruelty after it seized and killed a beloved pet pig, thought to be the oldest of his breed in the world. The animal charity, which markets itself as caring and kind, has

A Texas high school football player has been accused of stealing an emu from a farm and then torturing and killing it at a party late in the evening on Valentine’s Day. Seven other students were charged with criminal trespass and criminal mischief, and additional charges may be forthcoming, according to a press release from the county sheriff.

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.

Hidden cameras, planted by animal welfare charity Animal Aid, showed horrific treatment of sheep in a slaughterhouse in North Yorkshire. Employees, at the Bowood Abattoir near Thirsk were filmed sawing at animals’ throats with seemingly blunt knives.  Staff, at least