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Bengaluru landlords and associations cannot ban residents from having pets — here’s what the BBMP guidelines say
BBMP's new guidelines protect Bengaluru pet owners and community animals from unfair restrictions, …
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Video of an Olympic champion whipping a horse resurrected a dark side of the games
British Olympian Charlotte Dujardin was suspended after video showed her whipping a horse, reigniti…
Hannah Abraham
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Officers rescue 150 animals 'living in squalor' from a small garage. The owner now faces animal cruelty charges.
Officers found the animals crammed into a 20' by 20' garage, including 117 chickens, 18 ducks, 2 go…
Katie Balevic
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5 horses died at Churchill Downs in the last week, raising new questions about animal welfare at the Kentucky Derby
One trainer was suspended indefinitely after two of his horses died. Three other horses sustained s…
Katie Balevic
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I created major advocacy organizations for women's entrepreneurship and animal welfare. This is how I did it.
Wendy Diamond, who founded Women's Entrepreneurship Day Organization and Animal Fair Media, explain…
Katie Balevic
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Thousands of French pet owners are abandoning their animals, but shelters say the crisis has deeper roots than summer vacation
Furious shelter workers blame inflation, magistrates, police officers, and a lack of sterilization …
Thibault Spirlet
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Thousands of holidaygoers in France are abandoning their pets on the way to the coast or countryside, local shelters say, with one organization already taking in 12,000 animals this summer
People are still leaving their pets on the roadside or at highway rest stops as they rush to their …
Matthew Loh
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Luxury fashion house Gucci under fire for using real tigers in ad campaign ahead of Chinese New Year
Gucci's special collection was launched earlier this month to celebrate the 2022 Year of the Tiger,…
Huileng Tan
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Man found half-eaten by zoo tigers after one of the apex predators was seen with a shoe in its mouth
A man was found mauled to death by zoo tigers in Pakistan when staff saw a shoe in one of the cat's…
Rebecca Rommen
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Australia says it's going to shoot wild horses from helicopters in a bid to cull 14,000 of them
The New South Wales government said it's going full steam ahead with its program to shoot wild hors…
Matthew Loh
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TN govt steps up efforts to stop glue traps that subject rats to a slow, painful death
The Tamil Nadu government is stepping up its efforts to stop the indiscriminate use of glue traps w…
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Footage shows a sea of blood after close to 1,500 dolphins were killed in a traditional mass hunt in the Faroe Islands
The Sea Shepherd, an animal activist group, accused hunters of prolonging the dolphins' suffering b…
Cheryl Teh
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Mumbai authorities, activists engaged in dogfights over city's 160K strays
Like in many parts of India, stray dogs seem to rule the roost in Mumbai and other major cities of …
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Carl Icahn slams McDonald's for putting out 'hollow' responses to 'animal welfare violations'
In a letter to other shareholders, Carl Icahn wrote that McDonald's corporate leadership acting in …
Áine Cain
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The UK may soon ban boiling lobsters alive in a landmark bill that acknowledges that crustaceans and mollusks, too, are sentient beings
The bill is being considered in the UK's House of Lords and extends animal welfare protections to i…
Cheryl Teh
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Animals stranded on board 20 livestock ships waiting to pass through the jammed Suez Canal could starve and die if the situation lasts much longer, charity warns
There is a risk of "starvation, dehydration," and death for the animals stranded on the livestock s…
Joshua Zitser
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A nonprofit wants sharpshooters in helicopters to kill over 2,000 invasive deer living on California's Catalina Island
The Catalina Island Conservancy argues that the mule deer population needs to be eliminated to safe…
Charles R. Davis
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370 dogs and cats died in a Chinese 'death truck' heading to a meat market, animals rights group says
An animal rights activist at the scene estimated that most of the total 718 dogs on the truck were …
Matthew Loh
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One of the 'worst roadside zoos in America,' which kept a tiger that was so malnourished its bones were visible, is closing after a legal battle
PETA reached a settlement with the Waccatee Zoological Farm that means that it will close permanent…
Joshua Zitser
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World's largest container line is rerouting its fleet to avoid collisions with endangered blue whales, the largest animals on earth
Mediterranean Shipping Company's new route avoids Sri Lankan waters where blue whales congregate af…