Animals trapped in traps can suffer for days before succumbing to exposure, shock or attacks by predators. Traps often kill "non-tar...
Traps often kill "non-target" animals, including dogs and endangered species.
To save costs, fur breeders pack the animals into small cages so that they don't have to go back and forth more than a few steps.
The gathering and confines is particularly stressful for mince - loners who occupy up to 2,500 hectares of wetland in the wild.
The frustration of living in a cage causes mink to mutilate itself - they bite into their skin, tail and feet - or run fast and circle endlessly.
"PETA investigators witnessed unbridled animal cruelty. Workers beat pigs with metal bars and stabbed needles in their eyes and face.
Snakes and lizards are skinned alive because it is believed that skinning of living leather makes them more supple.
Piglets are separated from their mothers when they are only 10 days old.
When the piglets are gone, the sow is sworn again, and the cycle lasts three or four years before it is slaughtered.
About 3 to 4 million cats and dogs - many of them healthy, young and adoptable - have to be euthanized in shelters every year.
Cows produce milk for the same reason as humans - to feed their young - but on dairy farms, calves are taken away in the age of one day.
1 day old calves are fed with milk substitute feed (including cattle blood) so that their mothers' milk can be sold to humans.
Animals can suffer brain damage or death from heat stroke in just 15 minutes. Defeating the heat is especially hard for dogs.
Every year, about 10,000 bulls die in bullfights.
Most cows are intensively locked up and unable to fulfill their most basic desires, such as breastfeeding their calves, even for a single day.
The cows are fed unnatural, protein-rich food - including dead chickens, pigs and other animals.
In total, industrially bred animals, including those on dairy farms, produce 1.65 billion tonnes of manure per year.
Goat children are cooked alive to make gloves.
The skins of unborn calves and lambs - some are aborted, others by slaughtered pregnant cows - are considered "luxurious".
In the United States, about 285 million chickens are kept for the production of eggs. In tiny rooms so small that they can't move a wing.
The wire mesh of the cages rubs off the hens' feathers, scrubs their skin and causes their feet to become crippled.
Before 1986, only four states had laws against animal cruelty.
Adhesive traps cause terror and torment for all the animals that touch them, and leave them suffering for days.
In one study, 70% of animal cruelty also had criminal records for other crimes.
Seal hunters often hook baby seals in the eye, cheek or mouth so as not to damage their fur, and then pull them over the ice to skin them.
Arsenic-containing additives are added to the feed of about 70 percent of the chickens that are kept as feed.
Every year, almost one million seals worldwide suffer a painful and often protracted death, mainly for the sake of fashion.
Scientists estimate that 100 species are extinct every day! That's kind of every 15 minutes.
Every year, 50 million male piglets are neutered in the United States (usually without painkillers).
More than 15 million warm-blooded animals are used in research each year.
The methods used in fur factory farms are geared towards maximising profits, almost always at the expense of animals.
To test cosmetics, detergents and other products, hundreds of thousands of animals are poisoned, blinded and killed every year.
In extremely cramped conditions, piglets are prone to stress-related behaviors such as cannibalism and tail biting.
Farmers often cut off piglets' tails and break off their tooth ends with pliers - without giving them painkillers.
For identification purposes, farmers cut pieces out of young pigs' ears.
Animals on fur farms spend their entire lives in cramped, dirty wire cages.
For fur production, the small animals are crammed into boxes and poisoned with hot, unfiltered engine exhaust gases from a truck.
Engine exhausts are not always lethal, and some animals wake up while they are skinned.
Larger animals have staples or rods that are pressed into their mouth sands or anus so that they can receive painful electric shocks.
Bird toxins attack the nervous system of birds, causing them to endure hours of seizures, irregular flight and tremors before they die.
If you drink milk, you subsidize the veal industry.
Male calves are often taken away from their mother's day, chained in tiny stables for 3-18 weeks and raised for veal production.
After being removed from their mothers, the piglets are locked in bays until they are separated to be reared for breeding or meat production.
Although chickens can live for more than a decade, chickens raised because of their eggs are exhausted and killed at the age of 2.
More than 100 million "exhausted" chickens are killed in slaughterhouses every year.
Forty-five states currently have punitive provisions for animal cruelty. (The states without these provisions are AK, ID, MS, ND and SD).
Dogs used for combat are chained, mocked and starved to trigger extreme survival instincts and promote aggressiveness.
Dogs that lose (or refuse) fight are often abandoned, tortured, set on fire, killed, shot, drowned or beaten to death with an electric shock.
Cows give an average of 16 pounds of milk per day. With hormones, antibiotics and genetic manipulation? 54 pounds per day.
Decent treatment is not a priority for those who poach and hunt animals to get to their skin.
Alligators on farms can be beaten with hammers and axes, sometimes staying conscious and in pain for up to 2 hours after skinning.
The investigation of animal abuse is often the first point at which social services intervene in difficulties with a family.
A study by the Canadian police found that 70 percent of people arrested for animal cruelty had previous convictions for other violent crimes.
Dog fights and cockfights are illegal in all 50 states.
The hoarding of animals is found in virtually every municipality. Good-willed people are overwhelmed by the animal population crisis.
The consequences for hamsters, their human relatives, animals and the community are extremely serious - and often fatal for animals.
Declaving is a painful mutilation in which 10 amputations are performed - not only of the nails, but also of the toe ends (bones and all others).
The long-term effects of declaving include skin and bladder problems and the gradual weakening of the legs, shoulders and back of cats.
The claw-off is both painful and traumatic and has been outlawed in Germany and other parts of Europe as a form of cruelty.
Kangaroos are slaughtered in the millions every year; their skins are considered to be first-class material for football shoes.
In the United States, 6 to 8 million stray and abandoned animals come to shelters each year, and about half need to be euthanized.
In California, the state with the highest milk production in America, dairy manure has poisoned hundreds of square miles of groundwater.
Each of the state's more than 1 million cows excretes 18 gallons of manure per day.
Every year, the global leather industry slaughters more than a billion animals and tannes their skins and skins.
Elephants that perform in circuses are often kept in chains for up to 23 hours a day, from the time they are still babies.
Millions of animals are killed every year for the garment industry.
There is immeasurable suffering in every fur-studded jacket, leather belt and wool sweater.
Neglect and suspension are the most common forms of pet abuse in the United States.
On any given day, there are more than 65 million pigs in mass livestock farms in the United States, and 112 million are killed for food every year.
Every year, dogs suffer and die when left in a parked car - even for "just one minute" - parked cars are a death trap for dogs.
Dog owners: In a day with 78 degrees Fahrenheit, the temperature in a shady car is 90°F, in the sun it can rise to 160°F within minutes.
98% of Americans consider pets to be companions or members of the family.
For medical experiments, animals can be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, addicted to drugs and brain damaged.
No matter how trivial or painful animal testing, no one is prohibited by law.
If valid animal-free research methods are available, no law requires experimenters to use such methods instead of animals.
An average of 1,000 dogs are required to operate a medium-sized racecourse. There are more than 30 racecourses in the United States.
Female cows are artificially inseminated shortly after their first birthday. Congratulations on your birthday!
Birds do not belong in cages. Bored, lonely, deprived of flight, robbed of company...
Many birds become neurotic in cages - they rip out feathers, rock their heads incessantly and pick again and again.
According to industry reports, more than 1 million pigs die each year on the way to slaughter.
More than 100 million animals suffer and die every year from cruel chemical, drug, food and cosmetic tests, biology lessons, etc.
About 9 billion chickens are raised and killed each year in the United States for meat production.
The industry refers to chickens as "broilers" and keeps them in huge, windowless stables filled with ammonia with artificial lighting.
Some chickens spend their entire lives standing on concrete floors.
Some chickens are locked in huge, overcrowded plots where they are forced to live in the midst of their own waste.
Neglect/neglect is the most widespread form of animal abuse (approximately 36% of all cases of animal abuse).
Cows are treated like milk-producing machines, genetically manipulated and pumped with antibiotics and hormones.
Foie gras is made from the grotesquely enlarged livers of ducks and geese, which have been cruelly forcibly fed.
The best way to save the cows from the misery of mass livestock farming is to stop buying milk and other dairy products. Discover soy!
A typical slaughterhouse kills about 1,000 pigs per hour.
The sheer number of animals killed makes it impossible for the death of pigs to be humane and painless.
Because of the improper anaesthesia, many pigs are still alive when they reach the brewing hot water baths.
13% of cases of intentional animal abuse involve domestic violence.
Animal cruelty problems are human problems. When animals are mistreated, humans are at risk.
Instead of improving the conditions for animals, the dairy industry is researching the use of genetically modified cattle.
More than half of the furs in the US come from China, where millions of dogs and cats are beaten to death, hung up and bleed to death.
Millions of pounds of antibiotics are fed to chickens, which only metabolize about 20 percent of the drugs fed to them.
The 3 trillion pounds of waste generated each year by livestock animals are typically used to fertilize crops.
Unfortunately, chaining dogs is legal in most areas, but one of the cruellest punishments imaginable for sociable animals.
Tens of thousands of horses from the United States are slaughtered each year to be used for horsemeat in Europe and Asia.
Seit die letzten Pferdeschlachtbetriebe in den USA 2007 geschlossen wurden, sind Tausende von Pferden nach Kanada/Mexiko verschifft worden.
Täter töten, verletzen oder bedrohen Haustiere von Kindern, um sie zu sexuellem Missbrauch zu zwingen oder um sie zu zwingen, über den Missbrauch zu schweigen.
Es gibt keine Bundesgesetze, die die Spannung oder die Verwendung von elektrischen Stößeln an Schweinen regeln.
Einundvierzig der 45 staatlichen Gesetze gegen Tierquälerei wurden in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten erlassen.
In den Vereinigten Staaten wurden 2009 1,13 Millionen Tiere für Experimente verwendet, dazu kommen schätzungsweise 100 Millionen Mäuse und Ratten.
Infolge von Krankheiten, Pestiziden und Klimaveränderungen wurde die Honigbienenpopulation nahezu dezimiert.
Viele Studien haben einen Zusammenhang zwischen Tierquälerei und anderen Formen der zwischenmenschlichen Gewalt gefunden.
Kühe haben eine natürliche Lebenserwartung von etwa 20 Jahren und können acht oder neun Jahre lang Milch produzieren.
Ein Pelzmantel ist ziemlich cool - für ein Tier zum Tragen.
Achtzehn Rotfüchse werden für einen Fuchspelzmantel getötet, 55 Nerze für einen Nerzmantel.
Pelztierzüchter wenden die billigsten und grausamsten Tötungsmethoden an, die es gibt: Ersticken, Stromschlag, Vergasung und Vergiftung.
Zusätzlich zu Durchfall, Lungenentzündung und Lahmheit sind Kälber, die für die Kalbfleischproduktion aufgezogen werden, verängstigt und verzweifelt wegen ihrer Motte.
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