April 2004 PETA made its first delivery of 27 doghouses to needy dogs in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. A local newspaper reporter rode along on a few of our deliveries and did a wonderful story about the program. We have been flooded with calls from community members, requesting houses for their dogs.
April 2004 PETA received a link to video footage of three Case Western Reserve University students torturing and killing a hamster, including one student biting off the live hamster’s leg and head. We immediately contacted the university and authorities and all three students were charged with cruelty. Watch PETA’s Public Service Announcement about the dangerous link … Read more »
April 2004 Thanks to pressure from PETA, five juveniles in White Swan, Washington, were charged with first-degree cruelty to animals for sodomizing and torturing pigs at a high school Future Farmers of America program. Click here to read about the link between animal and human abuse.
April 2004 PETA’s Community Animal Project came to the rescue of this little rat terrier who was found chained in a Virginia Beach backyard. She had become tangled in a rope and a cable which were wrapped so tightly around her leg that it had swelled to three times the normal size. We called animal control … Read more »
April 2004 PETA wrote to the district attorney prosecuting a horrible case involving a New Jersey residence where authorities found animals perishing in filthy conditions. They seized 165 animals, including dead and paralyzed rodents. The hoarder was fined more than $800 and charged with six counts of cruelty for failure to provide adequate veterinary care, inadequate … Read more »
April 2004 Thanks to pressure from PETA, a Jensen Beach, Florida, man was convicted of felony cruelty to animals for muzzling his dog and trying to castrate him by tying dental floss around his scrotum. The dog was taken for emergency veterinary care and had to be euthanized. Read about the link between animal and human … Read more »
April 2004 PETA contacted authorities about two farmers in Lower Mifflin Township, Pennsylvania, who were neglecting their horses and other farmed animals. They were found guilty of cruelty to animals and forced to give up their animals and pay a $7,600 fine. Click here to read about what to do if you witness cruelty.
April 2004 PETA’s mobile spay and neuter clinic, SNIP (Spay and Neuter Immediately Please), celebrated its 15,000th surgery with the lovely Rue McClanahan. Read more about how you can help animals suffering from the overpopulation crisis.
April 2004 Thanks to pressure from PETA, this sick and starving horse was relinquished from a neglectful owner in Elkins, West Virginia. A vet found her to be suffering from the worst case of lice she had ever seen. The horse is now recovering in the compassionate care of a rescuer.
April 2004 In late April, PETA debuted its new “Chain your door, not your dog” billboard (alerting people to the dangers that chaining dogs imposes on the animals themselves and the public) in Kentucky after a 4-year-old local girl was critically injured by her family’s pit bull, who was kept chained in the backyard. We received … Read more »
April 2004 PETA contacted authorities in Ludlow, Missouri, about abused and starving animals at a local residence. Authorities found two emaciated dead dogs in the backyard, seized five starving and abused dogs, and arrested the owners. Read about what to do if you witness cruelty.
January 2004 PETA put pressure on local authorities when officers found 34 cats and 28 dogs suffering from various illnesses and injuries, including missing limbs and eyes. Eight of the cats were found dead, the surviving animals’ source of water was melted snow that had leaked through the ceiling, and animals were engaging in cannibalism. The … Read more »
January 2004 After learning about a goat farmer in Portage, Washington, who bludgeoned baby goats to death with a hammer and sliced open the bellies of pregnant goats having difficulty giving birth without anesthesia, PETA contacted local authorities and the farmer has been charged with felony cruelty to animals.Click here to read about the link between … Read more »
January 2004 PETA got authorities to obtain a search warrant and arrest a juvenile and an adult in Pikesville, Kentucky, for stealing, staking, starving, and beating dogs. They were charged with cruelty to animals, and all the animals were seized. Click here to read about the link between animal and human abuse.
