Animal Cruelty

Animal Cruelty Bill You've Never Heard Of Wants to Ban Actual Pet Tattoos

Upper East Siders may be tramp-stamping their French bulldogs with temporary tattoos, but there's a little-known bill working its way through the state legislature that's trying to ban the real thing. Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal, whose district includes much of Midtown and the Upper West Side, ... More >>

Michael Reagan's Remarks Lead To Cancelation At Rape Crisis Event

After comparing gay marriage to bestiality and other horrors, Republican strategist Michael Reagan was canceled as the guest speaker at an upcoming Cleveland Rape Crisis Center luncheon. Reagan (the adopted son of Ronald Reagan) had written that gay marriage "is a slippery slope leading to other al ... More >>

New York Times Will Print "Pussy," But Not "Cock"

They've run articles about the Russian punk group Pussy Riot without putting asterisks in the name or changing it in any way. But in reviewing the play Cock, the paper of record called it Cockfight Play and explained that the real title was unprintable.

New Jersey's Proposed Seat Belt Law For Dogs Isn't As Dumb As It Sounds (Just Kidding)

If a New Jersey legislator gets her way, the Garden State will have the toughest seat belt laws in the country...for dogs.Democratic New Jersey Assemblywoman Grace Spencer has proposed a bill that would give law enforcement the authority to issue a a $20 ticket to anyone caught driving around with t ... More >>

Live: Stephen Colbert Throws A Festival With The Flaming Lips, Santigold, Grizzly Bear, And fun.

Colbchella: fun., Grizzly Bear, Santigold, Flaming Lips U.S.S. Intrepid Friday, August 10 Better than: All the world wars and Woodstocks combined. Don't you ever question America's might. We do things bigger and crazier than other countries—and then we televise it. And while Stephen Colbert ... More >>

Six Very Important Interactions Between Rappers And Dogs

As part of this weekend's Catalpa Festival, Snoop Dogg will slouch around Randall's Island to perform his debut album, Doggystyle, in its entirety. With the Doggfather being somewhat obsessed with all things canine, SOTC decided it was fine time to shed light on hip-hop's infatuation with dogs. But ... More >>

Cat-Killing Father And Son Face Prison Time In Beating Death Of Own Cat

You'd think that at ages 60 and 29, the prepubescent thrill of killing animals (most typically found in soon-to-be serial killers) would have faded. That, apparently, is not the case for a father and son in Brooklyn, who authorities say beat a cat to death and then tossed it in the road.Jean Rog Mur ... More >>

Zombie Apocalypse: PETA Exploits Texas Dog-Eater To Push Vegan Agenda

As the rest of us try to cope with the impending Zombie Apocalypse, the animal rights group PETA is using the latest case of potential zombie-ism to push its Vegan agenda.As we reported earlier this week, a Texas man was arrested near Waco on Monday after police say he ate the family dog -- after cr ... More >>

PETA: Pigeon Racing Is A "Blood Sport"

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is in a huff after the group's 15-month "investigation" revealed that pigeons often die during pigeon races. In most cases, however -- as even PETA admits -- the animals aren't killed by their handlers, but by things that would kill the birds if they were ... More >>

Bronx Woman Arrested for Starving Her Pups

No one likes a canine abuser so here's a story that most likely will not cheer up your Saturday.At the end of February, the Humane Law Enforcement responded to a complaint in the north borough by neighbors who had spotted two frail pups hanging around an apartment building on Webster Avenue. Th ... More >>

Assemblymember Micah Kellner on The Companion Animal Access and Rescue Act (UPDATE)

Amy Paulin (D-Westchester) isn't the only assemblymember sponsoring an animal shelter bill in Albany. Micah Kellner (D-Manhattan) is pushing a rival piece of legislation, which he says would do a better job of protecting stray cats and dogs. Kellner's Companion Animal Access and Rescue Act would ... More >>

In Defense Of Richard Ferrugio, Alleged Cat Bludgeoner...

​An Associated Press article made the Internet rounds over the weekend about a man who was arrested last week for allegedly beating a cat to death with a tire iron outside of a bar in Queens last month.As much as we'd like to vilify 39-year-old Richard Ferrugio for being the complete shit-bag he a ... More >>

Terrified Turtle Rides Roomba as Cruel Humans Look On

Crushable calls this "Sunday Cute" but I call it Sunday Borderline Animal Cruelty. Get that turtle off the Roomba, you monsters. [@_rosiegray]

Donald Trump vs. Jerry Seinfeld: What's the Deal With Demagoguery in Public Discourse?

​Jerry Seinfeld has ended up in Donald Trump's doghouse after pulling out of a performance for the Donald's son's charity foundation. Yahoo reports that Seinfeld cited Trump's persistent attacks on Obama's citizenship as the reason he backed out of the fundraiser that was to benefit St. Jude's ... More >>

NJ Lawmakers Petitioned for Harsher Animal Abuse Laws After Pit Bull Found in Trash Chute

​We have a rather serious adorable animals in trouble for you today. Did you hear about the 1-year-old pit bull, now named Patrick, who was cruelly thrown 19 stories down an apartment trash chute in Newark and left for dead? He was rescued by Humane Society workers the day before St. Patrick's ... More >>

PETA Says Knut's Death Was Preventable

Knut's Vanity Fair cover with Leonardo DiCaprio. ​PETA, always quick to point fingers, is claiming that the sudden death at age four of Knut the polar bear was preventable. A PETA representative told TMZ that they reached out to the Berlin Zoo months ago because Knut was allegedly being "terrorize ... More >>

LIFE, SHOT-BY-SHOT

A picture says a thousand words

Amanda Cohen Wins PETA's Faux Foie Gras Challenge

Faux foie fabulousness!​We're no strangers to the delights of the mushroom mousse Amanda Cohen serves at Dirt Candy, and now PETA isn't, either.

Supreme Court Overturns Animal Cruelty Law

​Today the Supreme Court voted down a federal law banning the sale of videos and other depictions of animal cruelty, saying it violates the right to free speech. The law had been enacted in 1999 to limit Internet sales of videos that show women crushing to death small animals, like kittens and ... More >>

PETA Responds to Last Week's Kanye West/Amber Rose Fur Parade in Paris

​So guys, we got it wrong--the tiny genocide of a fur coat Amber Rose sported at fashion week in Paris? It was not mink or chinchilla, as we guessed. It was lynx. You know: these guys. For this honor, PETA dubbed Rose Kanye's "sleazy sidekick," quoted "All Falls Down" ("The prettiest people do ... More >>

PETA, Unsurprisingly, Has Something to Say About the White Slab Palace Taxidermy Incident

Melissa Mango for the Daily NewsPETA naturally has something to say about this.​ Where there is smoke, there is PETA: in the wake of the news that a woman was suing White Slab Palace after being clobbered by the bar's taxidermied moose (or was it caribou?) head, the animal rights organization ... More >>

New PETA Celebrity Nude Spurs Outrage, Masturbation (Plus: Tiger Woods!)

​Bless PETA. Their latest celebrity nude ad has both nudity and blasphemy. Joanna Krupa (Something, Something Else) is an "Angel for Animals" with a crucifix concealing her nipples. Bill Donahue of the Catholic League rises to the bait -- and he's mad on behalf of animals and Jesus Christ! " I ... More >>

UK PETA Celebrity Nudes Superior to US, Study Finds

​American PETA's celebrity nude ads are pretty good, but we have to admit the UK has them beat. Here's Keeley Hazell -- yeah, us neither, but PETA says she's a "sexy glamour model" -- in their latest. We will reproduce the full ad, and another, after the jump so you can enjoy the full effect ... More >>

Oreo, RIP

​Oreo, the pit bull terrier mix who survived a six-story fall from a Red Hook roof last summer, was euthanized by the ASPCA Friday despite protests, twitters, 2 death threats and over 2oo phone calls from animal lovers.

Justice for Oreo: Alleged Dog Thrower Charged

​Oreo, the pit bull who was allegedly thrown from a Red Hook roof in June, is still nursing her considerable injuries, but may take some comfort from the fact that her alleged assailant, 19-year-old Fabian Henderson, has been indicted by the Brooklyn D.A.'s office for aggravated animal cruelty ... More >>

Greatest Show on Earth, Animal Abuse Come to Coney Island

Tickets for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus' "Coney Island Boom a Ring," scheduled for Coney Island this summer, go on sale today. (Warning: link plays horrible music.) A Ringling exec tells the New York Times, "this opening night in June will be a celebration of Coney Island." "J ... More >>

'Paganfest America Part II'

Nude Pregnant PETA Protest Fries Bacon Advocate

It's a little early for Mother's Day celebrations, but PETA UK nonetheless wished an Unhappy one on British chef Jamie Oliver for his promotion of British pork on a TV show, "Jamie Saves Our Bacon," and had two of their pregnant operatives get naked on all fours in metal pens in front of his Londo ... More >>

Brooklyn DA Nabs Killers in Vicious Cat Murder

The vicious teen killers apparently had nothing better to do: On October 7, Angelo Monderoy, 18, and Matthew Cooper, 17, broke into a vacant apartment at 1933 Union Street. There, they allegedly lured the helpless victim inside. Pinning the innocent to the floor, the duo squirted lighter fluid all ... More >>

New Life For Chicken Slaughterhouse?

Courtesy Times-Picayune A Chicken Empathy Museum sounds like an upscale showcase for all the young boys molested by a certain pop star. But that's not at all what we're talking about here! We're talking about how, when a Pilgrim's Pride poultry processing plant in Farmerville, Louisiana was announc ... More >>

Crazed Chimp 911 Tape Revealed; "PETA" Peeps Harrass Owner (Updated)

The Daily News has obtained "graphic audio" of the 911 call concerning Travis, the crazed chimpanzee who attacked a woman in Stamford, Connecticut and was killed by police. You can hear, at appalling length, Travis' owner Sandy Herold hysterically telling the dispatcher that the chimp has assaulted ... More >>

Geezer Wins at Westminster Dog Show

Ch Clussexx Three D Grinchy Glee (aka Stump) was born December 1, 1998. In dog years, he's Harrison Ford, but that didn't keep the superannuated Sussex spaniel from showing up the young stars at the Westminster Dog Show at Madison Square Garden last night and taking Best in Show. Stump, whose comp ... More >>

Fuck vegetables? Hell, yeah!

'Veggie Love': PETA's Banned Super Bowl Ad PETA's banned video advises: Once you go broccoli, you never go back. Is that a carrot in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? NBC won't let PETA even try to ask that question, banning the animal-rights group's proposed Super Bowl ad campaign. FO ... More >>

George the Lobster Rides Again

140-Year-Old Lobster Liberated From City Crab to Maine

Along with those naked celebrity ads we all enjoy, PETA does a lot of ground-level animal-saving. They scored a small but noteworthy victory today at City Crab, the venerable Manhattan seafood restaurant, which agreed after negotiations to release a 140-year-old lobster in its possession. City Crab ... More >>

Reality TV Star on Latest PETA Anti-Fur Poster

Breast Milk Ben and Jerry's?

Johnston Foster

GIMME SHELTER

Helping your fellow animals

Test Tube Meat Update: PETA 'Civil War'

Man Attacks 'Negative' Peacock on Staten Island

Targeting the Testers

Animal rights activists move beyond fur and the circus

Bloody Brilliant

Pie, Anna Wintour, and the history of fur protest

Girls Vs. Boys

Brazilian Girls in heat; Canada's Junior Boys in ecstasy

Terrorist Tactics

A State Law Would Pin the T-Word on Animal-Rights and Eco Protesters

Animal Rights Goes Legit

A Dostoyevskian Dilemma, or The Nature of the Beast

Letters

You’re an Animal

Bestiality and Bioethicist Peter Singer

Letters

Horse Rules

An ASPCA Campaign Is Saddled With Criticism