article thumbnail

Animal Hoarding is a Serious Issue

Critter News

Animal hoarding is a pretty serious act that causes untold suffering for animals. there are probably several factors that go into how a person develops into an animal hoarder, but “we think it may be related to obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.”

Hoarding 100
article thumbnail

Western WA Puppy Mills Had Troubled History, But Still Allowed to Operate

Critter News

How much suffering and death resulted from this family's practices? Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty puppy mills animal welfare us. She kept being given "one more chance" with the end result of about 600 dogs finally being seized from the establishments. The article is particularly thorough and damning.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

How to Confront Cruelty

Critter News

The norm of moderate concern for animals - that animals matter albeit less than humans - permits the (ab)use of animals in vivisection, factory farming, bloodsports and other contexts where animals suffer. Tags: animal cruelty books.

Cruelty 100
article thumbnail

PETA Uncovers Horrible Conditions at Land O'Lakes Supplier

Critter News

And the disturbing video: Tags: animal cruelty PETA.

PETA 100
article thumbnail

FL Animal Control Conducts Bizarre Experiment

Critter News

To re-create and measure the environmental conditions, Animal Control staff put a dog from the pound, of similar size and weight to the dead dog, in the same holding cage for an hour. The temperature did not exceed 86 degrees, the dog was closely monitored and suffered no ill affects, they said. Weather conditions were also similar.

article thumbnail

PETA Petition to Stop Animal Torture at Defense Department

Critter News

The non-animal methods include rotations in military trauma hospitals and the use of the DoD's own Combat Trauma Patient Simulator. Please help animals who suffer for military training by asking President Obama to extend his ban on torture to include animals used in military trauma-training exercises.

PETA 100