Animal Abuse, Rights and Welfare

July 9, 2024

Should You Hug a Sloth? Advocates Raise Concern Over Petting Zoos

Cats may be the reigning queens of the internet, but sloths are not far behind. With a visage that appears to be smiling and a physiological […]
September 13, 2023

For Many Watch Buyers, the Appeal of Exotic Skins Is Waning

Trading in the crocodile, alligator, lizard and python skins often used to make watch straps involves a labyrinthine process of documentation. In July, People for the […]
December 29, 2020

Is This the End of the Mink Coat?

<!– –> At Home Watch: Pixar’s ‘Soul’ Celebrate: Parenting Victories Socialize: Outdoors Relax With: White Noise Lisa Fonssagrives Penn wears a Canadian wild mink coat for […]
September 18, 2020

Carole Baskin of ‘Tiger King’ Gets Her Own Show

Carole Baskin, the animal rights activist who gained national attention while sparring with exotic tiger keepers on the popular Netflix documentary “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and […]
May 31, 2020

How PETA Won Its Messy Fight and Took a Seat at the Table

The alpaca’s scream sounded like a high-pitched electric pencil sharpener, more machine than mammal. It was awful, and that was the point. The group behind the […]
March 31, 2020

'Tiger King': What Happened to Carole Baskin’s Ex-Husband, Don Lewis?

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Like much of America, Chad Chronister recently binge-watched the chronicles of an eccentric roadside zookeeper known as Joe Exotic and his archenemy, an […]
December 10, 2019

Someone Is Putting Cowboy Hats on Pigeons in Las Vegas

This is a true story about pigeons wearing cowboy hats. It happened in Vegas. The day started out typically, according to Bobby Lee, our story’s main […]
August 30, 2017

A Mystery Ball Where the Illuminati Have Cloven Hooves

The revelers gathered Saturday evening outside a store on the Upper East Side with taxidermied parrots in the window: women in floor-kissing gowns and little back […]
May 13, 2017

Where, Oh Where, Has My Little Dog Gone? Refresh Your Feeds

Micha Porat was driving his car in Miami Beach at 1 a.m. not long ago when he saw a small animal, the size of a cat […]