#Animal Welfare

Articles (30)

• 🇺🇸 Inside Pam Bondi's aggressive push to crack down on animal cruelty crimes — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  A politically connected nonprofit animal shelter helped steer Bondi on DOJ's approach on animal cruelty crimes and their prosecution.

  Related: #Criminal Justice Reform, #Policy Advocacy
• 🇬🇧 ‘Profit prioritised over welfare’: UK’s premier exotic animal hospital to close — 23/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Pet owners fear there is no viable alternative service after Great Western Exotics owner deems business unviable</p><p>On a nondescript industrial estate on the outskirts of Swindon, visitors may h...

  Related: #Healthcare Access
• 🇺🇸 Immigrant Detentions and Deportations Leave Pets Behind — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  As immigrant detentions and self-deportations soar, animal welfare groups in cities like New Orleans scramble to feed, foster and re-home the pets left behind.

  Related: #Immigration
• 🇺🇸 The Bay Area’s animal welfare movement wants to recruit AI — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  In early February, animal welfare advocates and AI researchers gathered in stocking feet at Mox, a scrappy, shoes-free coworking space in San Francisco. Yellow and red canopies billowed overhead, Pers...

  Related: #AI Ethics
• 🇬🇧 Greyhound racing ban legal challenge rejected — 21/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Opponents consider options after failing to thwart new law banning greyhound racing in Wales.

  Related: #Legal Ruling
• 🇺🇸 Stop importing monkeys for lab experiments. It's cruel. And it’s dangerous. — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Three individuals, including a Republican, Democrat, and actress, are calling on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to suspend the practice of importing monkeys for experimentat...

  Related: #Research Ethics
• 🇺🇦 Oscar-winning director fundraises to help animals impacted by war in Ukraine — 20/03/2026 [Ukraine]

  The proceeds from director Chloe Zhao's fundraiser will benefit Animal Rescue Kharkiv, a nonprofit organization (NGO).

  Related: #Humanitarian Aid
• 🇬🇧 Greyhound racing to be outlawed in Scotland — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  The sport, which already faced extinction after the country's last track closed, is to be banned permanently.

  Related: #Legislation
• 🇬🇧 Dog owners to face unlimited fines if their pets attack livestock under new law — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Police will have new powers to seize and detain dogs that have attacked or chased farm animals.

  Related: #Legal Reform
• 🇬🇧 Greyhound racing to be banned in Wales after Senedd vote — 17/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  But the legislation faces a legal challenge and accusations ministers did not consult properly.

  Related: #Legislation
• 🇬🇧 ‘I just wish they’d let me feed my cats’: how council ban made one woman an animal welfare icon — 16/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>When Collette Boler was ordered to stop feeding a colony of feral cats in Thurnscoe, other animal lovers stepped in</p><p>“Two ladies from York have just been in,” said Collette Boler at the till o...

  Related: #Local Governance
• 🇬🇧 Cheltenham raised a cheer – but fatalities and fallouts tainted bounce-back festival — 16/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Attendances and British-trained winners were on the up but low points included more starting trouble and jockey spats</p><p>Attendance: up. British winners: up. Bookies’ profits: through the roof. ...

  Related: #Horse Racing
• 🇬🇧 Fourth horse dies at Cheltenham on final day of races — 13/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Envoi Allen, due to retire after this week, collapsed on the walk back to the stables.

  Related: #Horse Racing
• 🇬🇧 Third horse dies at Cheltenham, in his last race — 13/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  A third horse has died at this year's Cheltenham festival.

  Related: #Horse Racing Safety
• 🇬🇧 'Traumatic night' for women who found dead and dying horses in field — 13/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  An animal welfare charity received a report of a horse having seizures in a field on Wednesday night.

  Related: #Trauma
• 🇺🇸 Gaelic Warrior strikes gold at Cheltenham; Envoi Allen dies after finish — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  Gaelic Warrior stormed to Gold Cup glory at the Cheltenham Festival, but the race was somewhat overshadowed as Envoi Allen collapsed and died after crossing the finish line.

  Related: #Horse Racing
• 🇺🇸 A retirement home for penguins — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  African penguins at Boston's New England Aquarium have been given a separate, "geriatric" island that allows seven of the 38 critically endangered birds to age safely and still be with their friends. ...

  Related: #Conservation
• 🇬🇧 ‘Kitty karma’? Jessie Buckley tries to claw back approval after enraging cat-lovers — 07/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Oscar favourite insists she is a ‘lover of cats’ after telling podcast about ultimatum she once gave to now-husband</p><p>If <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/jessie-buckley">Jessie Buck...

  Related: #Celebrity Controversy
• 🇬🇧 Critics of my animal farm have made life hell, says Jodie Marsh — 07/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  The former glamour model says she has been targeted "because of who I am".

  Related: #Celebrity Controversy
• 🇬🇧 Two of the world's rarest lions put to sleep at zoo — 06/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Thheiba and Fidda were 22-years-old and were the remaining two females of a pride at the zoo, with one male lion named Qays remaining.

  Related: #Wildlife Conservation
• 🇬🇧 Rescue centre sees rise in abandoned cat families — 01/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Yorkshire Cat Rescue in Haworth says it paid £282,000 in vet bills in 2025 and rescued 925 animals.

  Related: #Economic Impact, #Pet Responsibility
• 🇺🇸 Ape cracks exhibit's glass as it launches at Memphis Zoo visitors — 28/02/2026 [USA]

  The Memphis Zoo has closed its bonobo exhibit for glass repairs after it was damaged by a primate that launched toward onlookers

  Related: #Visitor Conduct, #Wildlife Conservation
• 🇺🇸 2/20: CBS Evening News — 21/02/2026 [USA]

  Trump lashes out at Supreme Court after justices strike down his tariffs; Man's cat sanctuary naps still helping rescue expand years after they first went viral

  Related: #Politics, #Trade Policy, #Internet Fame
• 🇺🇸 Bondi orders Justice Department to prioritize animal welfare enforcement — 19/02/2026 [USA]

  Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered the Justice Department to prioritize animal welfare enforcement, in a move she said will entail stepping up prosecutions and even doling out grants to animal welfare...

  Related: #Law Enforcement, #Government Policy
• 🇺🇸 Loyal dog who lived by owner's grave for 10 years inspires new law in Brazil — 12/02/2026 [USA]

  Bob lived in the São Paulo cemetery where his owner was buried for 10 years until his death in 2021.

  Related: #Legislation, #Human-Animal Bond
• 🇬🇧 Britain's 'loneliest' sheep gives birth to first lambs — 11/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Fiona - who hit the headlines in 2023 after being rescued from the foot of a steep cliff - gives birth to twins at a farm park in the south of Scotland.

  Related: #Wildlife Rescue, #Agriculture
• 🇺🇸 A sequestered judge and dog handlers take us inside the Westminster Dog Show — 08/02/2026 [USA]

  Get a front row seat to the 150th Annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, where dogs compete to be the best in show.

  Related: #Tradition, #Competition
• 🇺🇸 From Josh Howlin to Barker Playfield: NFL-inspired pups headline Puppy Bowl XXII — 08/02/2026 [USA]

  Before the Seahawks and Patriots clash in Super Bowl LX, Barker Playfield, Josh Howlin and more take the field for Puppy Bowl XXII, competing for the Lombarky Trophy and the title of "Most Pupular."

  Related: #Entertainment, #Sports Satire
• 🇺🇸 Flight to UK for turtle washed up in Storm Goretti — 08/02/2026 [USA]

  The rescued loggerhead turtle will be flown from the Channel Islands to mainland on Tuesday.

  Related: #Environment, #Wildlife Rescue
• 🇺🇸 Bills WR Khalil Shakir's connection to heartwarming Puppy Bowl story — 07/02/2026 [USA]

  One of the event's participants, Button, was rescued by Nickel City Canine Rescue.

  Related: #Sports Culture, #Community Outreach