Tag: animal rights

Black cats banned from this Spanish town – until after Halloween

Terrassa is home to more than 9,800 cats, according to municipal data — a population that lives quietly among its 220,000 residents. The temporary ban forces the town, and perhaps the rest of us, to confront a deeper contradiction. How can a culture that loves animals and fills social media with cat memes still tolerate cruelty in the name of tradition or aesthetics?

Turkey’s 4 million dog cull begins

Turkey has started culling 4 million stray dogs, throwing them out in plastic bags.

Turkey has approved the culling of millions of dogs

Turkey has approved a law to cull its estimated 4 million stray dogs.

Watch out for Frankenchickens says watchdog group

KFC, Nando’s, Greggs, Marks and Spencer and Waitrose are among the 250+ companies in the UK and EU to have committed against Frankenchickens, but supermarkets including Morrisons, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Lidl are refusing.

Bethlehem’s Patron Saint of Puppies

If you’ve traveled to India, Mexico, Amman, Jordan –– you see that dogs don’t have it so good. They are kicked, wounded, abused, and in some places poisoned or shot on sight, nursling puppies killed in front of their mothers and then left to rot in a garbage dumpster. Or litters of puppies and kittens tossed out of the windows of speeding cars. Or puppies kicked around like soccer balls. This is what happens in holy cities like Bethlehem, says Diana George Babish, who cries about the state of animal rights in her home city, run by the Palestinian Authority. 

Meet the real Catwoman and her mission to protect California’s strays

A California woman riffed off that old saw of "turning a sow's ear into a silk purse" when she...

Neglected animals turn to cannibalism in Egyptian zoo

Things have gone terribly wrong in an Egyptian zoo where a group of baboons turned on one of their cage-mates,...

Israeli lab aims to hatch chicken from stem cells!

Israeli non-profit Modern Agriculture Foundation (MAF) is developing lab-grown chicken meat that doesn't require the rearing and slaughtering of birds.  Since...

UBER Middle East delivers puppies on-demand in the most adorable fundraiser!

It's raining cats and dogs in Amman, Jordan now, closing roads (flooded underpasses), some schools, and many offices. It's...

Israel is vegan capital of the world

There's a huge new movement in Israel. Not politics. Food. Specifically, veganism. Of a country totalling eight million people,...

Gaza’s First Lion Cubs Die Soon After Birth

Last week, the Gaza Strip and its zoo witnessed the unprecedented birth of two African lion cubs at the...

My Israeli Street Cat Turns 13 – That’s Stray Longevity!

Life on the streets has never been easy for stray animals, especially in the Middle East where animals are...