Nearly 170 dogs rescued from horrific Iowa Puppy Mill
By: Laura Goldman From Care2 Months ago, animal rescue groups in northern Iowa notified the Worth County Sheriff’s Office about a commercial breeder who was keeping dogs in terrible conditions without proper care. “We have tried to work with the…
Grant Thornton golf event
Grant Thornton in the Cayman Islands host their second Annual Golf Days in aid of the Cayman Islands Humane Society 16 November 2018 On Thursday 15 November, Grant Thornton in the Cayman Islands hosted their second annual golf days in…
US: Activists are trying to stop another cruel coyote killing contest in Oregon
By: Alicia Graef From Care2 Wildlife and animal advocacy organizations are calling on officials in Oregon to shut down an upcoming coyote killing contest, and to make these horrific events illegal throughout the state. These contests, which are also known as drives,…
Fisherman risks his life to save a humpback whale
By: Laura Goldman From Care2 As they headed back toward the central California coast after fishing for slime eel in the Pacific Ocean, Sam Synstelien and Nicholas Taron made a troubling discovery: a humpback whale was entangled in a buoy’s…
Animal cruelty is a gateway crime to mass shootings
By Laura Goldman From Care2 Prior to killing 17 people at a Parkland, FL high school earlier this year, Nikolas Cruz had tried to mutilate his neighbor’s pot-bellied pigs and crushed animals trapped in rabbit holes. Kip Kinkel, who in 1998…
Another invasive species found on Grand Cayman during Green Iguana cull
A second invasive lizard species has turned up during the Department of Environment’s (DoE) ongoing hunt for Green Iguanas. This Knight Anole (Anolis equestris – see attached photograph) was discovered last week at Vigoro Nursery on Agricola Drive in Lower…
US VA continues cruel dog experiments despite defunding threat
By: Laura Goldman From Care2 In horrific experiments, researchers at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities around the country implanted dogs’ stomachs with electrodes that made them vomit repeatedly. They placed pacemakers and catheters in dogs’ hearts, which forced the dogs to…
David Attenborough’s latest nature show has a brilliantly original twist
BY SAM HAYSOM From Mashable An iguana desperately fleeing a horde of snakes. A bird struggling to find love. A giraffe fending off a lion in a heroic bid for freedom. When it comes to nature documentaries, it tends to…
Woman jumps into canal on Cayman Islands to rescue drowning chicken
By Ben Hooper From UPI Nov. 7 (UPI) — A visitor to a yacht club in the Cayman Islands captured video of a woman jumping into a canal to rescue a struggling chicken. Vicky McClenaghan was filmed by a witness…
Death Valley’s iconic burros are being rounded up and adopted out
By Laura Goldman From Care2 Burros have been a familiar sight in Death Valley going back to the California Gold Rush in the mid-1800s, when prospectors used them as transportation and then left them behind. Over the next century, the…