All news on the topic: Animal cruelty

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Animal protection groups have collectively published a damning report which shows 'distressing' and 'shocking' content of macaques being physically abused

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

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

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