A monkey riding a mini motorbike decided to snatch a child, but it didn’t get too far after losing its grip and crashing. According to TMZ, the incident happened in an alleyway in Indonesia, while a toddler girl sat with three others on some steps. A macaque randomly appeared on a mini bike and sent …
An Iowa driver has been charged with murder and animal neglect after he slammed his truck into a woman walking her dog, killing both before speeding off. Police say Jason Robert Sassman, 49, was driving a pickup truck at a high rate of speed in northwest Des Moines shortly after 8 a.m. Sunday, according to …
A Kentucky man has been charged with multiple counts of torturing animals after he allegedly skinned four of his neighbors’ dogs to make “a doggy coat.” Jonathan D. Watkins, 38, of David, Kentucky, has also been charged with tampering with evidence, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported. Kentucky State Police were called on December 23 when Watkins …
A Tennessee woman is accused of killing her grandmother’s Shih Tzu and concealing its remains in the home. Kyoko Smith, 18, allegedly admitted to killing the dog and putting its head in a dresser drawer and its heart in a freezer. Another person at the residence told responding officers on November 11 that Smith confessed …
Two Maryland residents are facing animal cruelty charges after authorities reportedly found hundreds of animals living in deplorable conditions at their home, which doubled as a cat rescue. Garriott Cox, 53, and Pamela Arrington, 51, were indicted on November 4, weeks after two searches of their home reportedly uncovered a total of 74 dead cats …
A Florida woman has been charged with animal cruelty after she tried to drown a cat in a drainage culvert, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported. The Edgewater Animal Shelter took custody of Hubble the cat and reported he was “doing well.” An Edgewater police officer responded to a call from a witness who said he …
Authorities in Tennessee arrested a man on Tuesday for allegedly beating his sister’s dog to death with a hammer. Nicholas Kendall, 19, was charged with aggravated animal cruelty after his sister told police that he killed her 6-year-old female beagle mix because he didn’t want to feed it. Kendall also allegedly told his sister that …
Following the steps of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Senate unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday that would make animal cruelty a federal felony. The Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act (H.R.724) is headed to President Donald Trump’s desk following its approval by both chambers of Congress. The bipartisan bill was co-sponsored by Senators …
A South Carolina woman was arrested Tuesday after police said she made her children, all under the age of five, help her poison their dog. NBC 4 reports that Tiffany Priester had already been allegedly abusing her three children when their pet dog died. According to a North Charleston Police Department incident report, police got …
