Passenger Ippolit Bodunov, who flew from Russia to Canada, brought with him almost 5000 live medical leeches - the man managed to smuggle them into the cabin of the plane and safely reached their destination with them, where the leeches were discovered by service dogs at the airport. Animals…
Tourist Andrei Zhestkov tried to take a stupefied orangutan packed in a suitcase home to Russia from Denpasar airport (Bali, Indonesia). Zhestkov reportedly planned to keep the animal as a pet. Zhestkov was arrested at the airport on March 22 in the evening when he was going through a security check ...
A 39-year-old Missouri man was imprisoned on charges of animal cruelty and a gun crime after he wrapped a dachshund dog with duct tape and threw it into a ditch in very cold weather. Paul Garcia pulled ...
A man from Westchester County, New York was arrested for beating a puppy. According to police, Adam Jeffers from Ossining hit several times, including the head of a 7-month-old terrier puppy named Ocho, writes NBC. The man was arrested and charged with ...
California became the first US state to ban retailers from selling animals that came to the store outside of shelters and rescue points. State Governor Jerry Brown signed the new rules, which came into force on January 1, 2019, writes The Daily Mail. "I think,…
Animal advocates are terrified: a dead dolphin with a gunshot wound was found on a beach in California. Wildlife activists are calling for the dolphin killer to be found and convicted after a dead animal was found yesterday on a beach in Manhattan Beach, California, Mirror writes. ...
Chief of Staff of the Russian President Sergei Ivanov held a meeting in the Kremlin with American actress Pamela Anderson on animal welfare. As you know, Anderson is actively fighting for animal rights. Just do not think that this meeting took place in parallel with the negotiations between Vladimir Putin and the Secretary of State ...
In the United States, two animal rights activists were arrested. In the fall of 2013, Joseph Brian Buddenberg and Nicole Juanita Kissan released 5 minks from fur farms. Animal rights activists have toured farms in several states. They released minks from the cages, destroyed animal accounting books, applied ...
In Israel, about 100 activists from the Animal Welfare Society staged a demonstration near the Zoglobek concern factory, which is located in Shlomi (Galilee). Demonstrators protested against the cruel killing of chickens at this factory. They called it a real mockery of birds, since the methods of killing...
New York animal activists are concerned about the fate of a rabbit colony in Brooklyn. One of the residents of the building at 466 Third Avenue raises rabbits in the backyard of the building. Animal rights activists say keeping rabbits outdoors in any weather is...