People abused by intimate partners regularly cite fear for their pet’s safety as a primary reason they do not leave an abusive situation.
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Victims of intimate partner violence regularly cite fear for the safety of their pet as a primary reason they do not leave an abusive situation.
Cows and their calves graze near Cremona, Alta., in 2019. Rather than seeing photos of animal abuses, efforts to educate people about how they mourn and have rich social lives might be more effective.
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It’s important to design public awareness campaigns that illuminate the richness of animal lives by directing attention to actual animal agency rather than to the human abusers of animals.
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Humans wield great power with what they choose to eat. Here’s how to use that power for good on Christmas day.
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South Africa’s legal commercial lion industry is helping to act as a cover for the illegal international big cat bone trade.
A woman who was evacuated from Irpin cries kissing a cat wrapped in a blanket at a triage point in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 11, 2022.
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This war has powerfully and painfully magnified the connections among human and animal lives, and our unrelenting commitment to love in the face of darkness.
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New research shows gambling participation in Australia is dropping.
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The Singapore Food Agency has approved US food company Eat Just’s cultured ‘chicken bites’ for sale.
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We enjoy and appreciate animals and are disturbed by violence against them. But we also perpetrate this violence, and that needs to change.
There’s even a form of post-traumatic stress disorder linked to repetitive killing: Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress (PITS).
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The hazards are both psychological and physical.
Chimpanzees forced to interact with humans can develop stress and other health problems.
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Shareable online images of chimpanzees, elephants and other animals are threatening their conservation and welfare.
Even smaller primates like the squirrel monkey need far more room than any home can provide.
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The way of life primates have evolved to live cannot be replicated in a human home.
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Understanding happiness in chickens could tell us how to improve their housing.
Canada’s Parliamentary debate around captive whales and dolphins touched on the animals’ intellectual and social properties.
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As the field of animal law continues growing, so does public awareness of the problems with inconsistent ways that Canadian law protects some animals, while leaving others behind.
Breaking down the numbers on animal neglect.
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Examining 302 police reports in Detroit, a new study shows that animal cruelty is tightly connected to human relationships.
The results of a new animal cruelty study are clear. People view fighting animal cruelty as a public responsibility and want crimes against animals to be taken more seriously.
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A new study examines how to best enforce and prevent animal abuse, including through a dedicated anti-cruelty policing unit.
In Victoria, the law handles an average of 100 cases of animal cruelty each year.
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The Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council’s new report reveals that most cases of animal cruelty handled by the law are in fact animal neglect.
Animal cruelty investigators are doing unappreciated work for low pay and without union benefits or protections.
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Animal cruelty investigators do challenging and unappreciated work for very low pay, and normally without union benefits or protections.
Boxing Day Hunt, 2016.
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Fox hunting has been banned in the UK since 2004 – so why is it still happening?
The law is ambivalent when it comes to trespassing, and photographing or filming the property owners.
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Aussie Farms’ have map showing locations where farms or producers treat animal cruelly has caused outrage with many claiming it is illegal. So, what does the law actually say about this?
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The cruel link between economics and animal welfare.