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animal abuse
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One Of South Africa’s Last Zoo Elephant Freed: A Wild Return After 40 Years In Captivity
22 Aug 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Everyone working on the years-long campaign to free Pretoria Zoo’s last elephant, Charlie, can heave a massive sigh of relief as the old animal is finally back in the wild.
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The SPCA Takes Action To Free The Seals From Their ‘Handlers’ At The Hout Bay Harbour
17 Nov 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
If you’ve snapped a picture with the seals at Cape Town’s Hout Bay harbour, consider yourself called out.
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A Stressed-Out Seal Died After Biting A Woman On Strand Beach
20 Oct 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
Again, this is a tragic end for a wild animal just trying to live its life in peace.
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Umm, Carole Baskin Has A New Docuseries [Trailer]
15 Oct 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
Following the story that gripped the world, Tiger King’s Carole Baskin is back, and this time it’s with her very own investigative docuseries that is promising many “shocking moments”.
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Remember That Awful Hermanus Pet Sitter Viral Video? Carte Blanche Is On The Case [Video]
11 May 2021 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In March, footage of a dog named Hector being abused by his pet sitters went viral. Now the wheels of justice are in motion, although Hector remains traumatised.
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Outrage After ‘Blind Box’ Pet Craze Results In Deaths [Video]
07 May 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
A Chinese courier company has come under fire recently for transporting “blind boxes” full of puppies and kittens.
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Make Sure Your Brand Of Coconut Milk Doesn’t Support Monkey Abuse
03 Jul 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
PETA investigators uncovered some horrific methods used to farm coconuts for distribution around the world.
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Please Enjoy All The Past Winners Of The World’s Ugliest Dog Contest [Images]
27 Jun 2018 by Nereesha Patel / No Comments
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. These dogs might be far from pretty, but they still had enough cred to be called the ugliest dogs in the world.
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2018’s World’s Ugliest Dog Competition Winner [Photos]
25 Jun 2018 by Nereesha Patel / No Comments
It was a close contest, but out of the fourteen unsightly dogs who contended for the title of the ugliest dog, one fugly pooch was crowned the winner.
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Shocking Shark-Dragging Case Shakes Florida’s Boating Community [Video]
07 Nov 2017 by Reinhardt / 1 Comment
After a series of shocking videos surfaced, each featuring familiar culprits torturing sharks, a host of Florida locals have taken to naming and shaming. Take a look at what they did.
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Why Would These Cape Children Stone A Dog To Death And Hang It From A Tree? [Video]
21 Jul 2016 by Kiernan / No Comments
We should all be sickened by incidents of animal cruelty such as this, but does violent behaviour towards animals point to a much bigger problem?
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This Kid Bit Off A Hamster’s Head And Ruined His Life In The Process [Video]
02 Apr 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
Now when you mix kids and alcohol you tend to expect some pretty stupid shizz to go down, but biting a hamster’s head off? Learning the hard way.
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SeaWorld’s Ad Campaign Tries To Deal With Shocking Publicity
24 Mar 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
SeaWorld has received a very public battering ever since the release of the highly critical ‘Blackfish’. Now their PR team is attempting to fight back.
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Woman Goes Bark-Raving Mad – Takes Hoarding To The Next Level
02 Feb 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
We all have trouble letting go of our precious materials, but when authorities have to come and take action your hoarding may have gone too far.
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When Multimillionaires Attack – CCTV Footage Captures Dog Abuse [Video]
28 Aug 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The multimillionaire CEO of a Connecticut-based sports catering company has been caught on camera allegedly abusing his friend’s dog.
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“Worst Scenes I Witnessed In My 20 Years At The SPCA” – Inside Thandi Modise’s Cannibal Pig Farm [Graphic Images]
08 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
A sad scene on Danmel farm in Potchefstroom shows starving pigs eating the remains of dead pigs as a farm is completely neglected.
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Behold: The Ugliest Dog In The World
23 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
With a face only a mother can love, we present to you the one, the only, the horribly disfigured…. Peanut.
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When Will It End? Legendary Kenya Elephant Slain, Face Chopped Off [Graphic Images]
17 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ivory poachers have killed one of the biggest and most well-known elephants in the world, leaving the death of Satao as a real loss to the wildlife world.
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Bona-Fide Psycho Cat Lady Conducts Frankenstein Experiments
01 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Imagine, if you will, the cat lady in ‘The Simpsons’. Take that archetype, transmute her into reality and make her Polish – this will give you a good idea of the lady who was recently found to have 100 dead cat bodies in her home. She’s no ordinary cat lady. Looking to elevate herself above the competition, she took her crazy to the next level when she attempted to create “a new cat species” in her basement.
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300 Pit Bulls Saved From Dogfighting Farm In Philippines [PICS]
04 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Over the weekend, roughly 300 dogs were rescued from secret woodland kennels just south of Manila. They were part of an illegal online gambling operation in which players outside the Philippines bet on dogs fighting at a clandestine compound. But this is not the animals’ happy ending, as many of them are too injured or too wild to rehabilitate.
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Lab Dogs See Sunlight For First Time [VIDEO]
29 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
The Beagle Freedom Project rescues dogs that are bred and used for lab testing. These dogs are born in laboratories and live in cages their whole lives. The project recently rescued 40 dogs, between ages four and seven, who have never seen outside sunlight.
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Surfer In Trouble For “Riding” A Sea Turtle
04 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Jamie O’Brien is a well-known Hawaiian pro-surfer. He recently decided to create some awareness surrounding fibropapillomatosis – a herpes-type virus that affects sea turtles. His “campaign” involved posting a picture of himself “riding” one of these turtles underwater. But it turns out he may have instead broken laws against harassing turtles, as well as offended fellow Hawaiians who consider these creatures as ancestral guardian spirits.
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Hawk Survives After Being Shot Through Head With Nail Gun
25 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A red-tailed hawk from the San Francisco Botanical Gardens miraculously survived after being shot on purpose by someone with a nail gun. For almost a week after incurring the injury, the nail extended from its cheek through the front of its head. He was rescued over the weekend and is currently being cared for at the Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley in San Jose.
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One Thousand Dogs Rescued From Being Eaten In Thailand [VIDEO]
15 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
About 1000 Thai dogs – destined to be cooked and eaten in Vietnam – escaped a gruesome fate when they were rescued by police before the weekend. As you’ll see from the video, they were stuffed into tiny cages, stacked high in scores of crates. Even though the story has a happy ending, please be warned that the visuals are very disturbing.
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Amazing Dog Survives Being Bound, Shot In The Head 40 Times, And Buried [VIDEO]
03 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A stray collie named Star has managed to survive despite being bound and shot in the head 40 times before being buried alive. She managed to wriggle her way to the surface of the shallow grave she’d been left in to die. It is near impossible not to judge the kind of “people” responsible for this, but at least the story has a good ending.
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Animal Star Of Water For Elephants Possibly Abused In Preparation For Role [VIDEO]
11 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Water for Elephants is a film currently showing in our cinemas. The plot revolve around a circus and it stars Reece Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, and an elephant named Tai. But an animal rights group is claiming that Tai was physically abused in preparation for her movie role and has released this video as evidence. Have a look at the footage and decide for yourself .
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