Public lands should not hide poison. 14-year-old Canyon Mansfield was walking with his beloved dog, Kasey, near their home in Idaho when Kasey investigated what looked like an ordinary sprinkler head hidden in the ground. The device blasted sodium cyanide into Kasey's mouth and face. Canyon watched his dog convulse, foam at the mouth, collapse, and die in terrible pain. Canyon was also poisoned and continues to suffer health problems from the exposure. Kasey's death happen

Mexico is home to the only operating octopus farm in the Western Hemisphere. Right now in Mexico, octopuses are being forced into tanks where more than half die before they ever reach slaughter. Inside octopus farms, they are confined together with no way to escape one another. Researchers report that the stress and aggression inside these tanks is so severe that octopuses attack each other. Arms are torn off. Fresh wounds are left untreated. Some animals are killed and parti

Delaware law currently allows suspected cruelty to go unreported. A dog is carried into a veterinary clinic with a deep wound that has been left untreated for days or even weeks. The skin around the injury is swollen. Infection may already be spreading. A cat arrives so thin that her ribs and hips are clearly visible. Another animal shows injuries that raise serious concerns about abuse. Veterinarians see animals like these every year. A veterinary exam is often the first o

Small dogs are not exempt from the dangers of the meat trade. Warning: Graphic images appear below. They are included to show the reality and severity of the dog and cat meat trade. A dog spends days trapped inside a crowded wire cage without food or water. There is not enough space to lie down. Paws become trapped between sharp metal bars. Raw skin is scraped away as bodies are forced against wire cages for hundreds of miles. By the time many animals reach Yulin, some are

Behind closed doors, thousands of shelter animals still face the terror of Japan’s gas chambers. Dogs and cats in parts of Japan’s public shelter system are still euthanized inside carbon dioxide gas chambers known as “Dream Boxes.” These sealed metal chambers are designed to kill multiple animals at once by pumping in carbon dioxide gas until the animals suffocate. Investigations described dogs howling, clawing at metal walls, trembling, gasping for air, and collapsing duri

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s plans to use helicopters to drive horses from above and push them into corrals. A newborn foal can barely stand, yet she is forced to run for her life as a loud helicopter chases her from above. Sharp rocks slice into her soft hooves until blood forms with every step. Her mother stays close, desperate to protect her, but both are driven faster and faster with no chance to stop. Right now, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plans to driv

Surviving means little without legal protection. Right now, animals in West Virginia remain vulnerable to one of the most horrific forms of cruelty: sexual abuse. Every other state has passed laws to make this a crime. West Virginia has not, and that gap is already showing its impact. In one investigation, police found videos on a phone of a dog being pinned down and sexually abused by the people responsible for that animal. In another case, officers entered a broken-down s

Every tuft of mohair began with an animal who had no say. A child hugs a soft teddy bear from FAO Schwarz, unaware that the "luxury" mohair used in these toys is ripped from goats in a cycle of unimaginable violence. On mohair farms, goats are grabbed by their horns and legs and dragged across hard floors as they fight desperately to break free. Some are lifted by their tails, which can snap their spine. Their bodies are forced down so hard that they cannot move. Blades te

A single injury reveals the violence hidden behind every shipment. Frogs slaughtered for their legs are transported in tightly packed sacks where they can barely move. Many arrive at processing facilities already injured and suffocating. Workers pull them out and begin cutting into their bodies while they are still conscious. No anesthesia is used. Skin is torn from living tissue by hand. Limbs are severed while the animals are still reacting to pain. The journey begins in

They wait for kindness… but betrayal comes instead. Over 1,000 street dogs in India have been killed in just one month. Food is being used to bring them close, turning the one thing they need to survive into the reason they die.  Needles are pushed into their bodies or poison is placed where they feel safe enough to eat. Their legs begin to give in while they are still on their feet, their bodies no longer responding as fear sets in. The Chief Minister of Telangana has

His ribs tell the story of neglect no words can. A rope cuts into a dog’s neck as he pulls, trying to reach a bowl that has been dry for days. His ribs press sharply against thin skin. Flies settle into open sores that no one has cleaned or treated. Rain soaks him through the night, and by morning the sun burns down with no shade anywhere in sight. Confusion fills his eyes because he does not know what he did wrong.  Pain and hunger are the only answers he gets. Each br

Fear is the only feeling she has ever experienced. A three-month-old kitten is placed under anesthesia and locked into a metal frame so her head cannot move. Surgeons cut away part of her skull to expose her brain. Researchers inject a virus into her brain tissue and deliberately trigger a stroke to study blood flow and injury. After the scans, she is killed and her brain is removed and sliced to measure the damage. Some kittens are bred with severe brain disorders and

This bull faces sudden terror in a crowded ring. A bull is pushed into a closed arena where thousands of people are shouting from every side. He does not know where he is. Within moments, a man on horseback drives a steel lance into the thick muscle between the bull’s neck and shoulders. The blade cuts deep enough to damage muscle and blood vessels, weakening him on purpose so he will lower his head and charge more slowly. While he is already bleeding, other men step in an

Newborn chicks are alive, alert, and aware. A newborn chick breaks out of his shell onto a hard plastic tray inside a crowded hatchery. His feathers are still wet when cold air dries them fast. Conveyor belts vibrate under his feet while loud machines shake the room. Hands grab him within hours of birth and drop him onto moving belts where bodies stack and tumble. Male chicks are unwanted in the egg industry because they cannot lay eggs. Workers separate them. Many are t

Their journey starts with terror, not compassion. Inside dark trucks moving across China, cats are forced into wooden and bamboo crates so small they cannot turn around or stretch. Many are stacked on top of each other for hours or days. Their legs are crushed under the weight of other trapped cats. Their mouths are open, letting out sharp, piercing sounds, while urine and feces drip through the stacked crates onto the animals below. Some of these cats are taken from t

Many street dogs trust humans, hoping for food and safety to survive. A homeless dog, having not eaten in days, follows a familiar scent along a street in Assam, India. Hunger has taught him to trust scraps left by humans because that is how he survives. This time, the food is a trap. Drugs mixed into the food leave his body weak and dizzy. Before he understands what is happening, strong hands grab and force him into a rough sack that closes tight around his body while he

Happy and Patty, the last two elephants at the Bronx Zoo. Happy and Patty have been trapped inside the Bronx Zoo for almost fifty years , and every year has added more layers of suffering that most visitors never see. Both elephants were taken from the wild as young calves. They lost their families, their herds, and the daily movement that keeps an elephant’s body and mind stable. That loss never healed, and captivity has only made the pain heavier. Inside the zoo, they li

Buddy was hit by a car on purpose — but he was one of the lucky ones who survived. Buddy was a small homeless puppy when a driver sped up on purpose and slammed into him. The impact threw him to the ground and left him unable to stand, lift his head, or move. A security guard who witnessed the cruelty called for help, and one of our brave volunteers in Bahrain rushed to rescue him. Buddy suffered a shattered hip and thigh bone (femur) leaving him in extreme pain. Buddy's s

Buddy was hit by a car on purpose — but he was one of the lucky ones who survived. Buddy was a small homeless puppy when a driver sped up on purpose and slammed into him. The impact threw him to the ground and left him unable to stand, lift his head, or move. A security guard who witnessed the cruelty called for help, and one of our brave volunteers in Bahrain rushed to rescue him. Buddy suffered a shattered hip and thigh bone leaving him in extreme pain. Buddy's shattered b

Lady, moments after collapsing, with traffic still moving around her. A few months ago, a horse named Lady fell while pulling a carriage through Midtown Manhattan. Witnesses saw her body shake as she struggled to stand. Traffic moved around her while people tried to help, but she died right there on the street. Workers dragged her body into a trailer and took her away. Lady’s death was not an isolated incident. Ryder endured extreme stress and physical strain from work.