All news on the topic: Animal cruelty

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Sick thug who encouraged dogs to maul fox to death is jailed
WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Dane Crawford, 30, has been jailed for encouraging his pet lurchers, Major and Lassie, to kill a fox in a horrifying attack
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Scarlet Blake case sparks warning to clamp down on social media cat killing
Social media sites, like Snapchat and Instagram, must put in place stronger safeguarding measures to help fight a trend of people copying material around animal cruelty, a campaigner says
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Couple arrested after woman, 26, 'has sex with the family dog multiple times'
John and Samantha White was arrested this week after police discovered the woman was engaging in sex with her family dog multiple times while her significant other recorded it
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Peacock put down after being shot six times with airgun
The RSPCA has started an investigation after a local peacock was found shot in a field near Market Drayton, Shropshire, with several airgun pellets and was sadly put down
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Illegal puppy farming gang jailed after making £500,000 from selling sick dogs
Wally David Beaney, Louise Smith, Maria Smith and Charlotte Lauren Byron were jailed for making money by breeding dogs but failing to provide appropriate medical care to them
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Muzzled XL Bully thrown to her death from bridge in 'callous and sickening act'
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES: An XL Bully dog was found dead below the busy A57 flyover near Beighton, South Yorkshire, with RSPCA investigators fearing she was thrown from to her death
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'Malnourished Chitra was forced to entertain tourists, now she is transformed'
Sloth bear Chitra was forced to entertain people on streets of India before she was saved by International Animal Rescue and now she has been transformed into a peaceful bear
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Dog with horrific injuries saved after being dumped in a hedge on Christmas Day
Rosie the lurcher was 'left to die' in a hedgerow before being found on Christmas morning - a passerby carried the starving animal home and called the RSPCA before Rosie was given vet treatment
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Hundreds of small pets meant for adoption may have been turned into reptile food
Over 300 rabbits and rodents sent on their way for adoption in Arizona went missing. It now emerges they may have been sold to a local reptile food supplier, as legal proceedings continue.
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'Dog hoarder' arrested again as 55 malnourished dogs & 5 dead pups found in home
April McLaughlin has been dubbed a "dog hoarder" after 55 dogs were found at her home after she had "collected them" by creating several social media accounts and "posed" as a non-profit
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'It's time to outlaw cruelty of fast-growth chicken - too many animals suffer'
The Mirror's Environment Editor Nada Farhoud says it is hardly surprising that these fast-growing breeds, dubbed Franken-chickens, have a wide range of health and welfare issues
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Dad butchers daughter's bulldog with kitchen knife before blood-soaked arrest
A dad in Connecticut is accused of butchering his daughter's dog with a kitchen knife after a domestic dispute. Arnaldo Silva was charged with cruelty to animals
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Bully jailed after 'sadistic' attack on puppy he bought to win back girlfriend
Lee Preston, 37, bought a dog in an attempt to rekindle the relationship with his ex-girlfriend - but then she saw him kick the puppy, causing the animal to yelp in pain
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'World's loneliest orca' swims along in tiny pool after tragic death of partner
A shocking video has captured the desperate plight of a lonely orca, known as Kshamenk, who lives in a tiny pool at a marine park in Argentina - his home since he was captured in 1992
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Warning that luxury item sold in posh restaurants will cause next pandemic
Giles Watling demanded that imports of foie gras are banned, saying the recent bed bug outbreak highlights the dangers of disease being brought into the UK - but a Tory minister refused to commit
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Cat dies from injuries after being hurled from car window on busy road
A cat callously thrown from a moving car onto a main road then hit by another car has died from its horrendous injuries – as cops continue to hunt the heartless people behind the incident
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Man charged with animal cruelty after 'killing two ducklings with staple gun'
A man is accused of using a makeshift staple gun to kill two small ducklings last week. He now faces more than a decade in jail over animal cruelty charges
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Man poisoned and killed fox by trapping cub in a bin with deadly chemical
WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: Richard Rosen had caught the three-month-old fox in his garden in a trap with a deadly chemical used in paint stripper and locked it in a wheelie bin to wait for the animal to suffocate
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Inside 'sadistic' crocodile expert's twisted double life and depraved fetishes
Adam Britton, 51, who is based in Darwin, Australia, began his "sadistic" rampage in 2014 and tortured and sexually exploited more than 39 dogs until his arrest in April 2022
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Cat who has 'never known life without suffering' breaks hearts across the world
A malnourished, severely emaciated orange cat was rescued by a cat advocate after she found him digging through trash on the side of the road. Her TikToks had viewers in tears
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Woman arrested for allegedly abusing special needs dogs with dozens rescued
A woman in Arizona was arrested and charged with animal abuse after authorities discovered that her 'shelter for special needs animals' was just a front, and instead she kept dozens of dogs in her home - many were malnourished and some missing their doggy wheelchairs when cops arrived
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'Distressing' footage of monkeys being tortured shared on social media
WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Animal protection groups have collectively published a damning report which shows 'distressing' and 'shocking' content of macaques being physically abused
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Inside '90s dolphin sex scandal - 'his penis hooked over my arm, it was normal'
Three decades after animal rights activist Alan Cooper was arrested over accusations of molesting a dolphin, the wild dolphin sex scandal of the nineties is back in the spotlight
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Warning to dog owners as pooch chained to balcony tries to escape
WARNING - UPSETTING CONTENT: The Labrador, thought to be around four years old, was heard moaning and yelping as it was being asphyxiated by the lead its owners had tied to the balcony
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'Prostitute' orangutan chained to bed, shaved daily and forced to have sex
Pony the orangutan was kept captive for years and forced to carry out appalling acts before she was finally rescued and has had to under go extreme rehabilitation