All tag results for 'abuse'

NICE!!!

On Tuesday, the New Jersey Assembly passed a bill that will let prosecutors treat any organizers of dog fighting as legitimate mobsters, as well as some tough, new laws for anyone who's caught abusing animals.

Our only question is - what took so long?!

Here's what one of the assemblymen said in a statement about the new passed bills:

Tags: abuse, animal, animal cruelty, assembly, bill, legal matters, new jersey, penalties

The newest and most horrible form of animal cruelty is called "trunking."

Trunking is where two fighting dogs are simply locked in the trunk of car.

Then the dogs fight to death as the owner drives around, blasting music to cover up the sound.

After ten or fifteen minutes, the owner pulls over, dumps the body of the dead dog and continues on with the winner, waiting until he heals up enough to fight again.

It's absolutely terrible and it's so good that there are people out rescuing these dogs, like Miami-Dade County Animal Services, who rescued a group of dogs that were thought to have been used for trunking.

Five adult dogs and four puppies were rescued from a man's home in terrible condition.

Check out the video (above) to see some of the cute pups who were rescued and to learn more about this horrible crime.

Tags: abuse, animal services, cruel, dog, dog fight, fighting, fighting dog, miami, rescue, trunking

In the UK, scientists from Queen Mary, University of London have been doing an inneresting experiment.

They're looking to measure the moods of goats at a sanctuary in Kent, trying to see how well the animals can recover from neglect and abuse.

What they did was test the goats in a special enclosure that had hidden food surprises.

They studied how optimistic or pessimistic the goats were as to whether or not they'd find food.

The best part about this study, other than showing even farm animals have a complex emotional life, was that it showed mistreated animals can still be fully rehabilitated!

That's so ahamyzing!!

Check out the video (above) to see the scientists in action with some cutie goats!

Tags: abuse, animals, cruelty, cute, farm, goats, rehab, rehabilitation, science, uk

A two-year-old gray cat was found in the parking lot of a Baldwin Park animal care center in El Lay.

The cat wasn't just spotted strolling around without a collar or tags or anything.

This cat was struggling to breath, having had its paws duct taped together and its face taped up.

That's absolutely despicable!

An animal control officer found the cat while walking through a lower level of the parking garage at the County of Los Angeles Department of Animal Care and Control's Baldwin Park Animal Care Center.

Animal Control director said:

Tags: abandoned, abuse, animal control, awful, cat, duct tape, horrible, kitty

Why would people do something like this? It is awful!

A father and son from New York City have both plead guilty to charges that alleged they beat a black cat to death last summer

Father Jean Roger Murat and his son Robenson Murat will both spend 30 days in jail for violating animal cruelty laws.

Tags: abuse, animal cruelty, cat, duo, father, jail, messed, nyc, sad sad, sentenced, son, up, wtf

It's a sad fact of life that even though some people may love their animals, they're just not able to provide for them.

That seems to be the case with Travis the horse.

Travis used to be a carriage horse at Disney and may have even pulled Cinderella's carriage in San Diego's Seaport Village.

Tags: abuse, carriage, carriage horse, disney, horse, humane society, sad, sick

Well this doesn't make much sense! Terrorism? REALLY?

That is, unless the lawmakers are super into abusing animals. Or being paid off. Those are the only ways we could EVER see this happening — because the collection of wide-reaching laws will effectively make it impossible to collect evidence of animal abuse from here on out!

We're talking about cutting off whistleblowers with good hearts or even videographers working with the Humane Society when their evidence usually ends with prosecutions, fines, and even reform among producers! Which is a GREAT thing! Those poor animals!

With the new bills, deemed "Ag-Gag," the people who collect the evidence must turn it into authorities as soon as it's collected, instead of being able to accumulate any detailed or significant body of evidence. Which normally would lead to better results against the offenders!

Tags: abuse, ag gag, animal cruelty, awful, exposers, gross, law, politics, rights, terrorist