Michigan authorities are pursuing charges against a Detroit man accused of fatally shooting his neighbor last year in an ill-advised attempt to stop an aggressive dog that was mauling her at the time. According to WDIV, 61-year-old Michael Lewis Williams is expected to face charges of careless discharge of a weapon causing injury or death …
United Airlines could be looking at criminal charges after a 1o-month-old puppy died on a flight Monday night. The New York Daily News reports that the Harris County District Attorney’s Office in Houston will probe the incident after a flight attendant reportedly demanded that a passenger place her French Bulldog puppy in an overhead bin. …
A science teacher at an Idaho high school has come under fire for allegedly feeding a puppy to a snapping turtle in front of his students. According to the Idaho State Journal, Robert Crosland, a teacher at Preston Junior High School, is accused of feeding a puppy to a snapping turtle in the presence of …
Just a days after a French Bulldog died in the overhead bin on a United Airlines flight, the beleaguered airline made another error involving a traveling pet — sending a dog to Japan when it was meant to go to Kansas City. ABC News reports that Kara Swindel went to an airport in Kansas City …
An arrest has been made in the case of Delano, Minnesota, dog who was possibly held for ransom before he was shot to death. Bounty hunter Stew Peters told KMSP that an anonymous tip led them to arrest someone Friday morning in Minneapolis. The suspect is being held on suspicion that they made threatening calls like the …
The man accused of kidnapping and murdering the dog is still at large
A pair of Missouri teens received the maximum sentence allowed for an act of animal cruelty that attracted widespread condemnation when it made national news last year. According to the Kansas City Star, 18-year-old Kyle Williams and 19-year-old were each sentenced to four years in prison for animal abuse following convictions stemming from the fatal …
A suspected poacher was trapped and mauled to death in South Africa by a pack of lions on Saturday, who apparently left nothing behind of the man aside from his head. Metro reports that the hunter was attacked at the at the Kruger National Park, in the Ingwelala Private Nature Reserve in Hoedspruit, after alleedly hunting illegally …
A British woman who filmed herself engaging in sexual activities with a Labrador learned inside a Livingston Sheriff Court on Friday that she would avoid jail time. Edinburgh Evening News reports that Suzy Cairns, of West Lothian, who reportedly admitted to possessing photos of violent child pornography, was adamant that she didn’t have sex with her dog. She did …
A college student has accused Spirit Airlines of a number of missteps that ultimately led her to flush her emotional support hamster down an airport toilet. According to the Miami Herald, Belen Aldecosea was on her way from Maryland, where she reportedly attends college, to South Florida to visit family when she arrived at a …
A California teen is facing charges related to a disturbing video allegedly showing his extreme abuse of a small cat. According to KTXL, the video was recorded more than a year ago, when Garret Haile was 17. “Welcome to Badass, and this is Felipe the flying cat,” a voice, apparently that of the camera operator, …
A 6-year-old Florida boy who contracted rabies from an infected bat has died, his father announced Monday. Today reported that Ryker Roque died Sunday in an Orlando-area hospital, despite undergoing an experimental treatment in a final bid to save his life. The boy’s father, Henry Roque, said he found the sick bat, placed it in …
