WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT Terrified bull as it is pinned down and has flaming balls attached to its head as part of a Spanish festival. A bleeding bull is set on fire at the Toro de Jubilo celebration in Soria, Spain. The bull died after a blow, the organizers claim the…
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Animal welfare officials in Colombia have begun giving pigeons vasectomies as a humane way to keep numbers down in the capital Bogota. The Institute for the Protection and Animal Welfare of Bogota (IDPYBA) announced that nine pigeons underwent the snip on 9th November. Mauricio Cano, of the…
Austrian firemen have saved a chihuahua that had its hind paw stuck in an escalator. The poor animal reportedly got its hind paw trapped inside the comb plate of an escalator at the Vienna Central Station in Austria. Its owner, who reportedly failed in his attempts to set his four-legged…
Animal experts have revealed how they have helped children struggling with reading problems by getting them to tell stories to abandoned dogs. The Shelter Buddy Reading programme was initiated by dog coach Gudrun Braun at the Tierschutzhaus animal shelter in Voesendorf south of Vienna, Austria. Image shows a child reading…
A vet has been seized by police accused of illegally trimming and cutting the crests of more than 4,000 fighting roosters in Spain. The 59-year-old animal medic from Valencia - whose identity has not been disclosed by local media - was accused of document forgery and continued animal abuse. https://youtu.be/R5RhDjwaU6I…
A female Rottweiler weighing over 220 lbs has lost nine lbs in two weeks after animal activists put her on a strict diet to shed the extra fat. The extremely overweight canine, aged 6 and named Easylife, was brought to the Tierparadies Schabenreith shelter in the municipality of Steinbach am…
Wildlife experts have used Halloween pumpkins to reveal the real-life horror of animal extinction. New figures show that 20 per cent of all animal species are under threat of dying out, says International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). https://youtu.be/DUajFpWClG8 Tiergarten Schonbrunn/Newsflash Working with Vienna's Schoenbrunn Zoo in Austria, they…
An eerie, mutant kitten with two heads, two mouths and three eyes has been born in Colombia. Its owner told media in Puerto Berrio, Antioquia Department: "We found the kitten at around five in the morning. "We found out late because our cat had hidden to give birth. "We took…
Malta's fattest hedgehog - who was so big at one point that she was unable to even walk - has died of liver failure. Garfield the hedgehog was last seen seen scuttling across the floor of an animal refuge with a new spring in her step after she was rescued…
These images show a large sea turtle that was found half-buried on a beach in Saudi Arabia. The turtle was reportedly unable to move on its own and required help to free itself from the sand. https://youtu.be/r_hKowRhaow @BG994/Newsflash The images show a member of the General Directorate of Border Guards…