All news on the topic: Animal cruelty

WARNING DISTRESSING IMAGES: Snake owner Vincent Parkes crammed pythons into under-sized tanks which were filthy and infested with maggots when found by RSPCA inspectors

'Suella Braverman may have U-turned after outrage on lifting an animal testing ban, but relaxed rules mean there is no way to know for sure if the cruel practice is in our supply chain'

These desperate-looking dogs were among more than 1,000 to have been imported from the US via Copenhagen in the past two years, despite the UK having one of the world’s biggest beagle-breeding facilities

CCTV caught the dog owner pulling over on a roadside in Limerick, Ireland, and leaving the small pet which looks visibly confused and distressed as they drive off

Controversial shock collars for dogs will be banned from early next year, sparing half a million dogs from the painful devices which inflict pain for up to 11 seconds

WARNING UPSETTING CONTENT: No To Dog Meat works with locals in countries like China, Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia, where dog meat markets are still popular, and scenes of canines being butchered or boiled alive are common

Sonia Marcos pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to her Jack Russell cross called Bella who died in one of the worst cases of starvation a vet had ever seen

New Zealand's North Canterbury Hunting Competition's cat-killing contest for children has been scrapped after the organisers were slammed by animal welfare groups

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: A dog in Oldbury, the West Midlands was already dead from multiple 'horrific' stab wounds when it was brought to a vet in a B&M shopping bag by a man who did not leave his details

Denise Frazier has angrily hit out at claims she had sex with her own dog in a Snapchat video - saying 'for all those b***hes who have some nerves to say I f***ed my dawg... like nah'

Denise Frazier from Mississippi faces 10 years in prison over charges of unnatural intercourse and aggravated animal cruelty. She claims the pet allegedly in the video was “a service dog”

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: Footage from an illegal cockfight in Villa de Álvarez, Mexico, shows one of the fighting birds turning on its owner and savaging him, leaving his blood spilled in the pit

Denise Frazier, 19, from Mississippi, US, faces up to 10 years in prison after she allegedly posted a video on Snapchat which shows her performing a sex act on a dog

Lolita the killer whale has been held captive at Miami Seaquarium in Florida, US, since 1970 after she was dragged from the waters in Washington when she was just 4-years-old

Lolita the Orca was captured by explosive wielding hunters who drove her pod into a bay before the four-year-old killer whale was seized. From there she was dumped in a tiny tank with another killy whale who later killed himself, experts say

Miserable Lolita the Orca has been forced to perform for millions of spectators at the decaying Miami Seaquarium in Florida, US, since the 1970s - but now in a 'historic' agreement the 57-year-old will finally be freed

Animal welfare groups and the RSPCA in Kent have warned pet owners to be vigilant after dozens of attacks involving cats being shaved with clippers reported in recent weeks

RSPCA officers in Merseyside say the dog had clear wounds showing attempts to remove her microchip when her body was discovered at Bidston Hill in Wirral

Peter Toland, from Derry in Northern Ireland, has been accused of burying the "emaciated dog" alive and was charged with causing unnecessary suffering to the animal

Animal Justice Project filmed for three months at Bickmarsh Hall mega-farm in Warwickshire, where 8,000 pigs are housed in 46 sheds. Some staff were seen kicking and slapping pigs when moving around

Kiska, an orca that lived in isolation at Marineland theme park in Canada, has sadly died. The animal was alone since 2011, which is considered torture for social creatures like orcas

The young girl was asked to leave the beach by a lifeguard on duty at La Jolla Cove in San Diego, California after she was seen stoning the poor sea lion that was sleeping on the sand

Drug addict Emma Parker, 39, used a knife to slice rodent 'Mr Nibbles' in half while it was still alive before eating both pieces as an onlooker laughed a, court heard

A dog owner in South Korea went looking for their missing hound and stumbled on a massive dog slaughter farm where 1,000 pooches had been left to starve

Footage obtained by Dylan’s Films for Animals appears to show conditions inside MBR Acres in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, which breeds between 1,600 and 2,000 dogs a year