Animal Wellness Action urges Sublette County Attorney and Sheriff to bring felony-level animal cruelty charges against perpetrator. Pinedale, WY — Animal welfare groups expressed revulsion and outrage in the wake of news concerning a Wyoming man who ran over a wolf with his snowmobile, taped its mouth shut, tormented it, and paraded the injured animal … Read more
Animal Cruelty Enforcement
DOJ Has Already Taken Action to Arrest One Perpetrator, and BBC Investigation Shows Widespread Nature of Deeply Disturbing Videos and Horrific Abuses Washington, D.C. —Responding to a BBC investigative report exposing the horrific torture of baby monkeys in animal “crush” videos distributed by a global network reaching from Indonesia to the United States, Animal Wellness … Read more
Central Oregon resident who moved to Henderson, Nev. charged with 50 videos of despicable acts of ‘torture, sexually sadistic mutilation and murder’ of juvenile monkeys Washington, D.C. — Today, Animal Wellness Action issued a statement on federal charges brought against a man who moved between Oregon and Nevada and allegedly made as many as 50 “animal crush videos,” mainly depicting the torture and … Read more
An undeniable link The mass shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999 is a marker for a new, deadly era of violent outbursts in schools, grocery stores, and other gathering places where Americans should be safe. The Columbine shooters, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, bragged about mutilating animals before turning their weapons on … Read more
Policy solutions should factor in animal cruelty as an antecedent to acts of extreme violence The recent mass shootings in Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas, not only claimed nearly three dozen lives, they have left the nation struggling for solutions to prevent similar outbursts of violence. As our country settles on policy options, we should … Read more