Gone astray: EVERY DAY, more than 9,000 dogs and cats are euthanized in US shelters
JESSICA VILLAGOMEZ: 'Chicago is not a good place to be a stray cat. According to a Freedom of Information Act request, Chicago Animal Care and Control…
Horrific animal suffering revealed at farm used by producer of Spanish sausages sold on Amazon
JANE DALTON: 'Horrific conditions of animal suffering have been revealed at a farm that supplied a brand of Spanish sausages that were sold in…
White Coat Waste Project’s Anthony Bellotti calls animal testing ‘taxpayer-funded torture.’ He got the FDA to listen
BOB TEDESCHI: 'In 1995, when Anthony Bellotti was 17 and slogging through a summer internship in an animal research lab, he was struck not by how the…
FDA reviewing animal studies in wake of monkey deaths
JAQUELINE HOWARD: 'A decision by the US Food and Drug Administration to shut down a nicotine addiction study has stirred debate about what the future…
What Is Virginia Commonwealth University Doing to the Animals?
A. BARTON HINKLE: 'Last year stories about painful experiments on dogs conducted at the McGuire VA Medical Center came to light—prompting legislation…
More than a quarter of UK dinners have no meat or fish
BBC: 'More than a quarter of all evening meals in the UK are vegan or vegetarian, research shows. In the 12 weeks to the end of January, 29% of them…
Seeing the Sad Animals at America’s Worst Aquarium Broke My Heart
JAMIE LEE CURTIS TAETE: 'The Morro Bay Aquarium, on California's Central Coast, is scheduled to close in September of this year... One Yelp user…
Whale learning to speak human words is a ‘circus act’ to distract from the cruelty of her captivity
ALEXANDRA MA: 'Wikie, a 16-year-old orca in France, made headlines... after audio was released showing that she'd learned how to mimic human speech.…
Let the ‘SHAMELESS AND SILLY’ games begin: Winter Olympics shines spotlight on HORRIFIC dog-meat trade in South Korea
MARTIN ROGERS: 'Winter Olympics figure skater Meagan Duhamel still shudders to think the dog she rescued from South Korea might have ended up on…
Animals worldwide are giving up their ways and sticking closer to home as cities, farms and roads break up their natural habitat
HARRY PETTIT: 'A new study found mammals living in areas with high human activity move up to three times less far than animals in areas isolated from…