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Rabbit rescue president charged after authorities find 47 dead bunnies in Minnesota barn

MINNEAPOLIS — The president of a nationally known rabbit rescue nonprofit has been charged with felony animal cruelty and torture after 47 dead rabbits were found by authorities in a feces-filled Savage barn last week.

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Activists protest over Spain's San Fermin bull-run festival

Dozens of animal rights activists dressed as dinosaurs were chased by fellow activists through the streets of the Spanish city of Pamplona to protest alleged animal cruelty in the world famous San Fermin Running of the Bulls festival

The Independent UK

Shoot a Cat, Lose Your Dog (and the Right to Own Other Dogs, Forever): Not Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Special bonus: It used to matter, under Washington law, that cats and dogs were both carnivorous mammals.

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Hunter caught stabbing fox with a pitchfork by secret camera

He has now admitted animal cruelty in court

Wales Online

English dognapper who stole pets while touring Scotland jailed

Clifford Hodgkins was found guilty at two separate trials of animal cruelty and dognapping.

Daily Record

South Gippsland farmer found guilty of animal cruelty over flystrike outbreak

A farmer has been charged with aggravated animal cruelty for failing to care for his sheep, leading to deaths by flystrike.

ABC News

Gippsland farmer Jeremy Rich faces animal cruelty charges after dead sheep found in pit

Former South Gippsland Shire councillor Jeremy Rich appears in court charged with 22 counts of animal cruelty after allegedly failing to care for sheep that later died from flystrike.

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Rodeo is cruel and abusive – it’s time for New Zealand to ban it

As animal welfare groups take the government to court over rodeo activities, Kiwis are waking up to just how widespread animal cruelty is

The Guardian - AU

Man who struck police horse and threw traffic bollard at officer during Melbourne lockdown protests pleads guilty

Dennis Basic's defence says he is "embarrassed by his conduct", as he pleads guilty to several charges including assaulting an emergency worker, recklessly causing injury and animal cruelty.

ABC News

Kurt Zouma: Premier League footballer ordered to carry out community service for kicking cat

He was also banned from keeping or caring for cats for five years

The Independent UK

Man banned from owning dogs for 7 years after carrying out surgery on pet with staple gun

Aftab Karim, 40, admits animal cruelty staples after applying 26 staples to Belgian Malinois’s thigh

The Independent UK

Thousands of people were prosecuted for animal cruelty last year

Animal cruelty has come under the spotlight after profootballer Kurt Zouma admitted kicking and slapping his cat

Wales Online

Footballer Kurt Zouma admits animal cruelty charges

Footballer Kurt Zouma has admitted animal cruelty charges after a video of him kicking and slapping a cat went viral online.

Evening Standard

Horses starved in soiled field, court told

A Victorian woman is facing more than 60 animal cruelty offences for allegedly underfeeding dozens of horses and keeping them in contaminated paddocks.

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Daily Mirror

Sheep put in jail after eating grass in the wrong place - until owner pays fine

Owner Reyna Morales has complained to the police as she believes the prison sentence for her sheep grazing outside a hostel in Santa Catarina Yosonotu, Mexico, is animal cruelty

The Independent UK

Plans to raise maximum jail sentence for animal cruelty to five years

Most serious offences currently punishable by maximum of six months behind bars

ABC News

Dog breeder Kerrie Fitzpatrick denies keeping 300 of the animals on rural property

A woman charged with animal cruelty offences tells the Adelaide Magistrates Court she was not in charge of caring for the dogs on her Murray Mallee property.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson urged to revive ban on fur, foie gras and hunt trophies

Exclusive: Nearly 40 leading animal welfare charities write to PM in last-ditch bid to ‘stop Britain propping up animal cruelty’

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Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson 'dumps animal cruelty pledges' from Queen's Speech to please right-wingers

The Prime Minister had pledged to ban imports of foie gras and fur - but both are said to have been dropped from the Animals Abroad Bill ahead of the speech, after the PM caved to complaining Tory ministers

Chronicle Live

What new laws passed this week will mean for you - including voting, policing and care costs

A number of laws gained Royal Assent this week on subjects including marriage, animal cruelty, immigration, building safety and polling stations

AAP

Tas man 'used chainsaw to shear sheep'

Police in Tasmania have charged a man with animal cruelty after a video of a sheep apparently being shorn with a chainsaw was circulated on social media.

ABC News

Darwin man charged with bestiality and animal cruelty faces court for the first time

Details of allegations of bestiality against a Darwin man have been suppressed from publication as they would "likely offend against public decency", according to a judge.

Manchester Evening News

Cruel animal abusers terrorise their pets - but still walk free from court

The M.E.N.has looked back over the worrying cases where abusers have avoided jail

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