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Why Are Good Young Racehorses Ending Up As Meat 7,000 Miles Away?Two years in the life and death of a racehorse:...

Report: Former NFL Receiver Dwight Jones Charged With Animal CrueltyPolice charged former NFL receiver Dwight Jones with felony killing an animal by starvation Monday after they found one dead dog and another starved dog in his yard, per the Times-News....

Someone Hung A Dead Goat From A High School Football Team's GoalpostNo big deal, you guys. Just a ritual animal sacrifice being performed in the name of a football rivalry. ...

Lee Corso Almost Killed A Duck On College Gameday

At this point, we have no grounds for saying whether or not the duck is dead. The duck could be alive, it could be in the final, painful throes of death, it could be totally OK—maybe ducks are more resilient than they look. Maybe. We're not veterinarians. All we know is that the duck was not happy...

Somebody Poisoned The Family Of NC State's Adorable Wolfpack Mascot

Today in animal cruelty and terrible affronts to school pride: someone allegedly poisoned four Tamaskan dogs with familial ties to the N.C. State mascot, Tuffy, in Elizabeth City, N.C. From the News & Observer:...

Here's A Soccer Player Kicking A Defenseless Fluffy Owl In The Face

This is a clip from a Sunday match between Junior Barranquilla and Deportivo Pereira of Colombia's Primara A. The owl, which is apparently Junior's club pet, made it on to the field in the middle of play and Pereira defender Luis Moreno swiftly booted it three meters off the field. Moreno hasn't b...

All Steeler Fans Are Basically Puppy Murderers

A Pittsburgh area man is in jail this morning after he kicked a 13-week-old pit bull to death because it wouldn't walk next to him and he had a Steeler game to watch. Obviously, Troy Polamalu hates animals!...