September 1st, 2010
The Mirror:
A young girl dips her hand into a bucketful of dogs and callously throws them one by one into a river to drown..
This shocking footage of a girl casually hurling yelping puppies to their deaths sparked outrage yesterday.
The killer in the red hoodie threw six trembling new-borns into a fast-flowing river to drown.
And in a reaction that has sickened people even more, the heartless teen cheers as one of the defenceless animals flies into the water…
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September 1st, 2010
LV.com:
An annual dog licence fee of just £21.50 could raise millions of pounds to improve animal welfare and combat the growing trend of so-called “weapon dogs”, a report has claimed.
The RSPCA said the levy could generate £107.4 million, even if only half of the nation’s dog owners complied…
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September 1st, 2010
Associated Press:
Costco Wholesale Corp. has condemned a veal producer’s treatment of calves after seeing footage shot by an animal rights group.
The group, Mercy for Animals, released video this week that it said was taken by hidden recorders at Buckeye Veal Farm in Apple Creek, Ohio. It shows calves chained inside small stalls where they are unable to lie down or turn around and are covered in feces.
Several states prohibit confining calves in such crates, though Ohio does not…
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September 1st, 2010
Associated Press:
The star of “The Cove,” an Oscar-winning documentary about a Japanese dolphin hunt, is back in Japan to protest the slaughter but had to cancel his trip to the village at the center of the controversy because of threats from an ultranationalist group.
Instead, Ric O’Barry, the former dolphin-trainer for the 1960s “Flipper” TV show, is playing host to a reception Wednesday for some 100 animal-lovers at a Tokyo hotel.
On Thursday, he will take a petition signed by 1.7 million people from 155 nations demanding the end of the dolphin hunt to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, escorted by police security.
The 70-year-old had initially planned to take the petition to the Japanese Fisheries Ministry. That was also canceled on advice from Japanese police…
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