Florida authorities are investigating the reported deaths of several cats that were found chopped in half. The Miami Herald reported that at least two cats were found dead in Weston several weeks apart. The first cat, which was found on May 11, was found in an open field. A city employee said the cat was …
Florida officials are investigating after a dolphin was reportedly found impaled on a beach last month. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in a statement that a necropsy confirmed the bottlenose dolphin — which was discovered on Fort Myers Beach on March 24 — was alive when it was stabbed above the right eye …
A sick dolphin stranded herself on a Texas beach last week and died when beachgoers pushed her back into the water and tried to ride her. According to a dolphin rescue group, rescuers were unable to reach the scene on Quintana Beach in time. Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network said that dolphins and other marine …
Police in California have arrested a man they say was abusing a dog and then shot at people who had confronted him about the abuse, KTLA-TV reports.Around 7:30 p.m. Monday, two people were walking by an apartment complex in Los Angeles when they observed a man physically attacking a French bulldog on an apartment balcony.The …
A Florida man was arrested on Wednesday amid charges that he sexually assaulted his pet dog. According to WFTV, a woman told police that she received a video from an unknown phone number that showed Nichols Schaab, 20, grabbing a dog by the tail and molesting it as it sat on a couch. The woman …
A Florida woman was arrested on Monday, a day after she allegedly assaulted her ex-boyfriend and threw his pug seven stories to his death. Shelley Vaughn, 46, reportedly hurled Eric Adeson’s 3-year-old pug off the balcony of Adeson’s Clearwater Beach apartment on Sunday. Adeson told WTVT that Vaughn had been drinking and using drugs before …
Over 80 dogs have been rescued from an illegal dogfighting operation that apparently spanned across numerous states. According to police, the operation spanned across several areas in New York, including the city, as we all Connecticut and Massachusetts. ABC 7 reports that detectives infiltrated “the ring to bring it down from the inside.” “The defendants, …
A former Florida veterinarian pleaded guilty Thursday to torturing animals in his care and possessing child pornography. Prentiss Madden, 40, pleaded guilty to receipt of child pornography, animal torture, child pornography possession, and the creation of an animal crush video, according to the Southern District of Florida United States Attorney’s Office. Madden was the medical …
William ‘Bubba’ Hodge was arrested in Daytona Beach on Thursday
A 77-year-old Arizona woman has died after she was attacked on her front porch by her neighbor’s dogs. Eliza “Maria” Sebastian Ruiz was found unresponsive on the ground in a Phoenix neighborhood Tuesday morning, with “four Staffordshire terrier-mix dogs” surrounding her, News 13 reports. She was rushed to the hospital where she passed away from …
A Pennsylvania man was arrested on Friday for allegedly shooting his dog and grilling its corpse outside his home. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Northampton Township police responded to Nikolay Lukyanchikov’s home amid reports of an open fire in his front yard. An arrest affidavit stated that responding officers found Lukyanchikov, 48, “incredibly intoxicated” to …
