Animal Rights

Cat With Taped Up Snout, Paws Abandoned At L.A. Animal Shelter (PHOTOS)

A cat that had its snout and paws covered in red tape was having trouble breathing when it was abandoned at an L.A. area animal shelter today. (See a disturbing photo of the cat bound up after the jump). Vets from the county's Los Angeles Department of Animal Care and Control quickly got the tape ... More >>

Good Judges and Bad Dogs: Readers Write In

Top 10 Famous Vegans, 2012 Edition

Nearly one year has gone by since our first list of Top 10 Famous Vegans caused an outright internet vegan-type revolution. Well, not really. But plenty of readers didn't shy away from outrightly hating or loving the list, so we thought we'd catalog a few more for 2012. The obligatory public figures ... More >>

L.A. City Hall's 'Elephant Awareness Day' Apparently Not Enough to Keep Ringling Bros. Out of Staples Center

Surprise, surprise! Not one month after L.A. politicians wasted time and resources designating August 3 as the city's official "Elephant Awareness Day," the poster corporation for alleged elephant abuse is coming to town. This very evening, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus (owned by Feld E ... More >>

"Shelter Me" Director Steven Latham Talks About Saving Cats and Dogs

In the new documentary Shelter Me, director Steven Latham shines a light on the issue of shelter animals, who are too often put to sleep because no one adopts them. The issue has long been a concern of animal rights activists across the United States. The film is airing on PBS stations, and there w ... More >>

Animal Services Didn't Keep Track of Guns and Animals, Failed to Collect $1.3 Million in Fees, City Controller Wendy Greuel Says

Remember when Animal Services officers had to give up their guns, at a time when it didn't seem like the city department knew exactly how many weapons it even had? Well today city Controller Wendy Greuel spelled it out in an audit of Animal Services: "Department officials ... neglected to perform p ... More >>

SeaWorld Whales Are Slaves Protected by U.S. Constitution? Federal Judge in SoCal Actually Considers It

SeaWorld Facebook​Updated at the bottom: Case dismissed. First posted at 11:51 a.m. on Monday. You might have blown off PETA's claim that whales under the care of SeaWorld San Diego were deserving of constitutional protection barring slavery (we sure did), but a federal judge in the case toda ... More >>

Kardashian Sisters' Fur Peddling at Their DASH Stores Draws Ire of Animal Rights Activists

The Kardashian sisters can't escape the sour taste of haterade these days. First there was a movement to get Kim to pay more taxes (she saw a California rate of 10.3 percent in 2010 even though she made $12 million). Then there was the post-divorce-announcement boycott of all things Kim (and, theref ... More >>

Chihuahuas Overpopulating L.A., Being Flown to Seattle (Really)

We're a sad bunch of self-centered, narcissistic, good-looking people, Los Angeles. Stop checking yourself in the mirror for just a second to realize that when you start a trend involving living beings, they reproduce, and the world is stuck with them. Witness the sorry plight of the Chihuahua, wh ... More >>

Naked Protesters to Mimic Pork Packages Outside Farmer John Planet Near Downtown L.A., PETA Warns

We love meat. We love naked people. Put them together and you have a PETA protest. (Only in L.A.) The animal rights group is targeting Farmer John and its pig slaughtering operation (mmm, pig) in Vernon near downtown tomorrow. And get this:

PETA Moves to Echo Park, Home of Some Great Dead-Meat Tacos

Perhaps this is the ultimate sign that Echo Park, former home of Mi Vida Loca, has turned a another corner of gentrification: Animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) this week opened its new West Coast headquarters in the former barrio, reports The Eastsider LA ... More >>

Guns Taken Off Animal Services Officers: City Controller Wendy Greuel Sniffing Around For Improprieties

Joe Duty​Updated at the bottom: Animal services chief Brenda Barnette responds, says this has nothing to do with Greuel's audit. First posted at 4:16 p.m. It appears that L.A. city Animal Services officers were made to give up the weapons they use to put down threatening animals. It isn't cl ... More >>

Los Angeles' Dog Barking Hell

Laid-back L.A. Animal Services department takes months to stop problem barkers

Animal Testing Wars in Los Angeles Ramp Up: On Five Billboards, the Foundation for Biomedical Research Urges Support for Rat Research

UCLALatest billboard​When it comes to medical research on animals, one thing is certain: lots of folks don't like what's going on at UCLA, and the school doesn't much appreciate the more extreme animal activists. Over the years, faculty members and researchers have been the target of bombs, lette ... More >>

How Wall Street Kicks L.A. Pets Out of Their Homes

Breaking Nudes: PETA Girls to Bare All on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood

Unfortunately Olivia Munn won't be there. We don't think.​Updated after the jump with photos of hot, vegan action thanks to hollyhoodian.com: You still have a chance to perv out support animal rights and check out these beauties tomorrow. Details after the jump. Breaking nudity: Two sexy wome ... More >>

Helping Out the Hounds

Price Fixing Lawsuit: Egg Cartel Not Giving Consumers A Break?

Several of the country's largest egg producers stand accused of participating in a scheme that drove up the wholesale price of eggs by 40%. And they did it under the guise of treating animals more humanely: By systematically killing off egg-laying hens, supposedly to increase cage space for the rema ... More >>

Los Angeles Chihuahuas Being Abandoned Like Ed Hardy; Rest Of Country Adopting Trend

No longer the "it" pup in L.A.​Does anyone else find it ironic that in this self-absorbed bastion of PETA-loving celebutards yesterday's top dog for Hollywood types -- the Chihuahua -- has been kicked to the curb like trash? Really, L.A? We reported this week how the Society for the Preventi ... More >>

Not Hot: L.A. Continuing To Ship Unwanted Chihuahuas Out-Of-State

​Dear fellow Southern Californians: Sometimes we can be real idiots. Maybe we can be forgiven for going through that Hummer phase, where every neighbor's SUV had to be bigger than the next. Or for buying that 4,000-square-foot house we couldn't afford and abandoning ship when those "balloon p ... More >>

140 Live Cats Discovered In Pasadena Shed; Several More Stuffed In Freezer

Tammy's 140 cats were not LOLing (and did not include this one)​If the Humane Society hadn't gotten to her first, this mysterious Pasadena shut-in, who neighbors knew only as "Tammy," would have been a prime candidate for "Hoarders" -- the crazy cat-lady edition. But Tammy goes so far beyond ... More >>

Today In WTF (Part 2): Wade Strickland, 62, Convicted For Having Sex With A Dog Under South L.A. Bridge

File photoAuthorities say a homeless man had his way with a dog (not this one) in South L.A.​This guy was giving the dog a bone -- and not the good kind, either. In fact, police said they found 62-year-old Wade Strickland having sex with a dog under a bridge in South L.A. last winter, with "po ... More >>

Animal-Rights Activists Send 'AIDS-Tainted' Razor Blades, 'Hell Awaits You' Note To UCLA Professor

UCLA MagazineWhatcha got for me today, Doc​UCLA neuroscientist David Jentsch, who performs drug tests on vervet monkeys at the university, was the target of a particularly gnarly animal-rights protest this week. He received a package at his home containing alleged AIDS-infested razor blades a ... More >>

Los Angeles Is 8th Most 'Veg-Friendly' City In America, Says PETA

Flore Vegan Cuisine​ According to a recent survey by PETA, Los Angeles is the 8th most vegetarian/vegan friendly city in North America. "Los Angeles residents should be proud that the City of Angels is on the cutting edge of healthy cuisine that is Earth- and animal-friendly," PETA Executive V ... More >>

Los Angeles Is 8th Most 'Veg-Friendly' City In America, Says PETA

​According to a recent survey by PETA, Los Angeles is the 8th most vegetarian/vegan friendly city in North America. "Los Angeles residents should be proud that the City of Angels is on the cutting edge of healthy cuisine that is Earth- and animal-friendly," PETA Executive Vice President Tracy ... More >>

Arthur Rosenbaum, harassed UCLA eye researcher who helped 10,000 children, has died

By Max Taves UCLAStudents and patients support scientists at UCLA​Oft-threatened UCLA eye doctor and researcher Arthur Rosenbaum has died. Over his 36-year career the ophthalmologist treated 10,000 children for strabismus, or eye misalignment, using techniques he pioneered, in part, from ex ... More >>

Easter Bunnies Rescued After Being Seized On Downtown Street

LAPD​Those 35 malnourished Easter bunnies seized on a downtown street are being cared for and will all likely end up in good homes, the interim general manager of the city's Animal Services Department told LA Weekly Friday. Rescue group Bunny World Foundation took 15 of the pets and is nouris ... More >>

Animal Liberation Front Suspects Make Plea Deals

Animal rights gangsters (except when it comes to making plea deals).​A member of the radical group Animal Liberation Front pleaded no contest Friday to three counts of stalking and three of conspiracy to commit stalking in connection with the group's targeting of UCLA researchers and the Santa ... More >>

HARRY AND SCARY

A HOWLIN' GOOD TIME

ALF: We Warned Lab

ALF fliers on Phenomenex doors. Today the North American Animal Liberation press office distributed a communique, dated July 21, which it said it received anonymously from the Animal Liberation Front. In the message, ALF claims responsibility for a July 18 "visit" to a Torrance animal-lab suppl ... More >>

Pachyderm Forest: Zoo Gem or Elephant Graveyard?

It's one of those stories that has Only in L.A. stenciled all over it. The L.A. Times reports that as rock guitarist Slash and zoo employees rallied at City Hall to keep the L.A. Zoo's $42 million Pachyderm Forest habitat on track,  Bob Barker has thrilled animal-rights opponents of the forest ... More >>

PETA's Lady in a Cage: Protesting Animal Treatment by Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus

Hold that tiger! Foot traffic pauses on Hollywood Boulevard as reporters, tourists and photographers catch a glimpse of near-naked activist in painted stripes

Seeing Red

Growling Voters

A humane view of L.A.’s mayoral race

CitySweep

A Pet Peeve

Bill to protect pets gets amended into near oblivion

Biting Back

L.A.’s fired animal chief says he was mistreated

Animal Nature

Can Marcia Mayeda save county animal control?

Slippery Slopes

Peter Singer’s Ethical Life

In the Doghouse

Breeders are yelping about proposed new fees

Letters