Category: Viral

According to reports, a man has been arrested after allegedly posting snuff videos involving guinea pigs bought at Petco—a chain that sells vulnerable animals to anyone who can pay.

A pizza joint customer’s Facebook photos showing an apparent severed head mixed in with the chickens’ wings she’d ordered have folks heated: “[T]he cognitive dissonance is real here.”

Tourists surely don’t want to see bloodied animals on the streets, and this horse certainly didn’t sign up for such violence. Will New York City ban horse-drawn carriages at long last?

Like many others, we here at PETA are filing through our memories of September 11, 2001: the chaos, the fear, the sorrow—and amid it all, people helping others, including animals.

In a murder hauntingly similar to Cecil’s, a Missouri physical therapist reportedly paid to lure Mopane from Hwange Park using an elephant carcass then maim and kill the beloved lion.

PETA warned Tamara Brogoitti that she’d created a ticking time bomb by keeping Buck the chimpanzee as a “pet.” Now, her daughter is injured and Buck has been killed.

A tiger convulsing, a distressed bear urinating on herself, a lion mauling a handler—we didn’t need any of these viral incidents to know that animals don’t belong in circuses.

“[Kobe] was hanging for over a minute. He was struggling and being tortured. … [T]hey just kept cutting his nails,” said Kobe’s guardian after viewing PetSmart surveillance video.

A man shot and killed his dog, then used $100 bills to light a fire and barbecue the body. If you find this disturbing but you eat meat, think about your perception.