Archive : Cruelty

The pictures are of a Russian dogs that melts your heart. The beautiful dogs are made to fight against each other and it makes you lose respect for the dog owners. A dog is man’s best friend but you can’t say the same about the man being the same to his own dog. It is scary just to see dogs in the street bite each other but to see your own dog being bitten to pulp shows that you don’t deserve [...]

Hundreds of tightly packed zinc-roofed shacks dot a hillside slum, one of thousands of “favelas” that are home to samba stars, drug lords and millions of poor Brazilians. But this slum in the southern city of Caxias do Sul is a home for dogs, not humans. Without enough money to build a proper shelter for 1,600 abandoned pooches, the humane organization So Ama, or “Just Love,” [...]

Yep, these are real poodles painted, seen on last Tokyo International Dog show which performed April 3 this year. One of biggest attraction was Painted Poodles that you can see on photos bellow…This just seems wrong to me, but some people call this an Art!

Aggression is part of normal dog behaviour. It is observed between rivals fighting over territory or mates, in self protection when the dog is threatened and when defending food or other prized resources. Aggression can, however, be excessive and inappropriate. As with all behaviour, some dogs are genetically more predisposed to aggression than others. Some breeds have been selectively bred to be aggressive [...]

In this week’s Westword, Jared Jacang Maher investigates whether twenty years of outlawing pit bulls in Denver has made the city safer. (You can also read more about the numbers of dogs killed in “Pit Bull Row”). Here, a photo tour of the city’s “pit bull row,” the home of Denver’s confiscated pit bulls (and the place where thousands have been euthanized over [...]

With no lips and layers of fighting scars, Dog 118 lapped her tongue across bare teeth at the Humane Society of Missouri. She’s now called Fay, and she’s a heartbreaking first look at the results of a massive dogfighting ring authorities broke up two months ago. Fay used to live behind a red trailer with an ominous warning — “What you see here, hear here, stays here” — before [...]

You may recall reading about an inquiry that began last month after the bodies of dogs which were meant to have been formally cremated were found dumped in a Derbyshire field. The remains of four dogs were discovered in Lower Hartshay, near Ripley, on 18 August. Two owners said their dogs had been sent by vets for cremation and one family was sent ashes. Peak Pet Cremations, the firm to which vets [...]

A little 6-month-old pitbull/mastiff puppy was the innocent victim when a domestic dispute got out of hand in Fairfax, VA. Terrence G. Merritt, 41, and Latoya Grant, 24, were arguing and Merritt threw the puppy out a second floor window of the King Louis Drive apartment. The puppy suffered a broken front paw in the fall and was taken by animal control for medical treatment. It will most likely be available [...]