Victories: Animals in Entertainment

A high school in Seattle has made the compassionate decision never to host another donkey basketball game.

Video game publisher Ubisoft agreed to remove a full-page print ad featuring a chimpanzee from November’s issue of ‘Rolling Stone’ magazine.

DDB Worldwide has chosen compassion over cruelty by signing the Great Ape Humane Pledge and agreeing never to use great apes in advertisements.

For Greenhouse’s third anniversary, the New York City nightclub planned to rent an elephant but it has canceled the elephant exhibit.

Whole Foods pulled its calendars featuring Ringling images from its stores nationwide.

The popular maker of premium spirits doesn’t condone cockfighting and will not allow any promotional events around the cruel sport of cockfighting.

PETA rescued two domestic turkeys and scored a great home for them.

PETA met with Roll International Corporation and the company agreed never to feature nonhuman primates in future ad campaigns.

Thanks to PETA’s hard work and persistence, ad agency Erwin-Penland has signed the Great Ape Humane Pledge.

Thanks to PETA’s hard work and persistence, ad agency Red Tettemer Partners has signed the Great Ape Humane Pledge.

Thanks to PETA, this national party-supply company has ended its partnership with Ringling Bros.

Captive tigers and other wild animals will never again be exhibited at the SupperClub Los Angeles.

August 2011 At a festival in Mitchell Park, California, a surf shop was hosting a “bobbing for goldfish” contest. The goldfish were in a large plastic storage container, and anyone who was able to catch a live goldfish won something from the shop. PETA notified animal control, which ended the contest and warned the store’s … Read more »

July 2011 After learning that the city of Sierra Madre planned to use Tai, an elephant from Have Trunk Will Travel, in its July Fourth parade, PETA posted an alert on our website. E-mails flooded officials’ inboxes, and the elephant was removed from the event.

Elephants will never again bear the blow of a bullhook while in Fulton County.