Lurcher Thrown from a Moving Car - Can You Help?

Posted By Freelance Writers Date: 7/05 Posted Under: Animal Charities, Animal Cruelty

A skinny dog with a horrific leg injury was thrown from a moving car and abandoned by the roadside.
A member of the public came to the lurcher’s aid after he saw it ejected through the open door of the vehicle as it travelled at about 20mph along a busy road in Coventry last Monday (28 [...]

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UK Animal Cruelty Stats Released

Posted By Freelance Writers Date: 27/04 Posted Under: Animal Charities, Animal Cruelty, Animal Welfare

“My cat doesn’t match my carpet”
For the second year running - and for a variety of different reasons - the world’s largest animal welfare charity rescued nearly 150 thousand wild, exotic, farm and domestic animals from dangerous and distressing situations.
The rescue figures include a 23 per cent increase in the number of animals abandoned by [...]

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Guilty of Animal Abuse But No Ban For Couple Who “Need a Guard Dog”

Posted By Freelance Writers Date: 22/04 Posted Under: Animal Cruelty

A couple who admitted to allowing their dog hobble around with a 10cm wide leg wound have been fined after they plead guilty to animal cruelty.
The pair, from Cambridgeshire, had to have the dog put to sleep, so serious was the injury having been neglected.
However they won’t be banned from keeping animals. Why, you might [...]

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Crufts - World’s Greatest Dog Show Hosts Notorious Dog Fight Thug

Posted By Freelance Writers Date: 21/04 Posted Under: Animal Cruelty, Animal Welfare, Dangerous Dogs, Dog Events

The head of a notorious illegal dog fight gang was back in action with his dogs last month it has been revealed.
Only this time, incredibly, Stephen Barriskill, the boss of the infamous Farmers’ Boys dog fight syndicate, exchanged the dog fighting pit for the show ring.
A national newspaper in Northern Ireland has discovered that the [...]

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Teen MySpace Animal Abuser Goes to Court

Posted By Ryan O'Meara Date: 18/04 Posted Under: Animal Cruelty, Social Issues

In today’s daily charge of the morons brigade, we’ve discovered what can only be the team captain of the Pathetic-Simpletons club.
Here’s a teen who thinks spending time abusing animals ‘live’ on his MySpace page is a cooler thing to be doing than skateboarding, X-boxing or even partaking in good old fashioned teen behaviour like getting [...]

Popularity: 21% [?]

 

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