NYer faces animal cruelty charge; carcasses found

Authorities are investigating whether any of the more than 20 animal carcasses found in the backyard of a Long Island home are the remains of animals reported missing by pet owners in the area.

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Officials: NY woman had 20 dogs buried in yard

Authorities in New York say a woman who had about 20 dead dogs buried in her backyard on Long Island faces a misdemeanor animal cruelty charge.

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Arkansas animal cruelty bill signed into law

Gov. Mike Beebe has signed into law new animal-cruelty restrictions that make aggravated cruelty to cats, dogs and horses a felony on the first offense.

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Arkansas Farm Bureau backs animal cruelty bill

The Arkansas Farm Bureau has announced it will back legislation to make aggravated animal cruelty a felony on first offense, reversing its opposition to past efforts to stiffen the state's animal cruelty penalties.

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Dead animals found in pot, freezer in Vt. home

Responding to a report of animal cruelty, authorities found dozens of living and dead animals in a home infested with fleas, maggots and rotting carcasses. The owners — a woman and her adult son — were charged with animal cruelty.

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La. Man Charged Under Animal Cruelty Law

A man from Louisiana has been charged with violating a new federal animal cruelty law by smuggling cockfighting weapons into the United States.

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Man Gets 6 Months for Animal Cruelty

A man who pleaded guilty to putting his wife's puppy in a 200-degree oven, crippling it, was sentenced Monday to six months in jail.

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Don't have your cat declawed in San Francisco, or you could go to jail. This month, the city became the first in California to ban the veterinary procedure, and was soon joined by Santa Monica, Berkeley and Beverly Hills. Los Angeles is expected to join suit soon.

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Nancy Bonus dearly loves cats - whether they are declawed like the two she keeps as pets, or still have their claws like those she cares for when they wander into her yard.

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Updated information and photos of beagle duct taped and left to die in woods: The beagle, Daisy, is home from the vet and continues to recover. While not included in the news story, the local humane society is offering a $2500 reward for information leading to an arrest.

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"A dog who had been missing for nearly three weeks has been found in a wooded area...in the northern Saratoga County (NY) town of Providence." "Police say the dog, a beagle, was covered in duct tape, placed in a bag and dumped in the woods."

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A mother of seven is accused of running a house of horrors for pets at her suburban home, forcing her children to help torture them and burying at least 20 dogs in her backyard.

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In Northern California, the Berkeley City Council voted unanimously yesterday to ban the declawing of cats within its city limits. The news was shared with me just after the vote by Anthony Sanchez, Chief of Staff for City of Council member Jesse Arreguin.

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Police are accusing a 22-year-old upstate New York man of hanging his girlfriend's four-month-old kitten with a belt and making a video of the animal struggling.

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COLUMBIA, Tenn. - A man who authorities say previously was involved with bestiality pornography has been charged with animal cruelty.

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A ban on shark finning in UK waters is to be introduced by the government, ministers will announce this week.

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How hard would it have been to just drive to the store and buy a new pack of cigaretes?

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. Our elected and appointed leaders should not be allowed to gag one side while allowing the other free rein.

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This week the Supreme Court heard arguments in U.S. v. Stevens. The legal issue is whether Congress infringed on First Amendment rights when it passed a law outlawing the distribution of images of animal cruelty for profit.

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Police officers responding to reports of an emaciated pit bull on South Pearl Street in July found a house that smelled of burning marijuana and an injured dog in the back yard.

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Investigators, acting on an anonomous tip, raided a piece of property on County Road 117 just outside the Alice city limits, where they found emaciated horses, pigs, chickens, dogs and cats, authorities said. They also found the remains of a dead horse.

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A female cat was found duct-taped from head to paws and left abandoned in a Philadelphia yard on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009. Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PSPCA) workers fondly named her "Sticky."

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A 23-year-old Stuart woman stabbed and killed her dog Sunday, according to an arrest affidavit.

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Beijing----Domesticated pigeons of this city, take note: Until Oct. 1, you are prohibited by government edict from flying over the center of China's capital.

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Disaster drill shows preparation pays

A simulated disaster relief operation in Costa Rica has tested years of preparation between WSPA and local agencies, gauging both agencies' and the community's ability and readiness to care for animals if the Turrialba volcano were to erupt.

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Two Union County residents were arrested on multiple animal cruelty counts after deputies found two dead horses on their property, including one that died with 30 pounds of sand in its stomach.

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A motorist is to be questioned by police after 1,700 animals were found crammed in the trunk of his car in Bari, Italy.

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Minneapolis police say a local woman accused of kicking a seeing-eye dog in the jaw has been cited for animal cruelty

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When SPCA investigators received an anonymous tip Wednesday afternoon about animals in need of medical care at a home in northwest Houston, they had no idea it would turn into one of the largest U.S. animal seizures in memory.

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My, what a big strong man he must be to beat up a little 7-pound Min-Pin till it was dead. The judge gave him just six months sentence in county jail for that offense.

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Puppy mills are commercial dog breeders that focus on profiting by selling "purebred" dogs -- mostly to pet stores and usually through brokers or middlemen, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

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A Victorian country cat shot 13 times in the head with an air rifle has survived.

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