PETA and Halifax County Paws and Claws SPCA sterilized a whopping 86 animals free of charge in just one day! See some of the animals who won’t be contributing to the companion animal overpopulation crisis, and find out how you can help support our spay/neuter events: South Boston, Virginia, Spay/Neuter Event Was a Pawsome Success PETA deployed two of our mobile clinics from the Hampton Roads area to South Boston, Virginia, for a pawsome spay/neuter event. Thanks to the generous support of the Halifax County Community Recovery Grant Program, Halifax County Paws and Claws SPCA covered the cost o ..read more

Victory! Following a vigorous PETA campaign—which included more than 250,000 e-mails from our supporters, spirited protests, and letters to sponsors—the Hadi Shrine Circus will no longer exploit elephants in its shows. This is great news for elephants, who will no longer be forced to perform at the Hadi Shrine Circus under the constant threat of punishment. Abusive Exhibitors and Broken Spirits: Why the Hadi Shrine Circus Earned its Bad Rap The Hadi Shrine Circus has a history of hiring notoriously cruel exhibitors who keep elephants in shackles and abuse them with bullhooks—weapons that resem ..read more

Shocking video footage from Butte, Montana, reveals that an elderly elephant, Viola, escaped from Jordan World Circus on Tuesday, April 16, and ran loose on city streets. She was supplied by Carson & Barnes Circus, which has been cited for more than 100 violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act. Watch the dramatic elephant escape video now (contains graphic language): ELEPHANT ON LOOSE IN BUTTE ELEPHANT ON LOOSE IN BUTTE: An elephant got loose in Butte on Tuesday. The Jordan World Circus is in town tonight. The elephant is now safe with its handlers. Viewers say before the elephant was ..read more

It seems that the residents of Panguitch, Utah, won’t have to evacuate just yet, but as they await the possible impact of melting snow, PETA is poised to help them out. PETA Pitches Panguitch a Dam Good Bargain As emergency repairs continue on a massive 60-foot-long crack that’s threatening the integrity of the Panguitch Lake Dam, we sent a letter to Allen Henrie, president of the West Panguitch Irrigation & Reservoir Company, offering to contribute to the considerable funds required to fix the fissure—provided the company agrees to plaster the dam with our eye-catching appeal urging resid ..read more

This spring, PETA workers once again rolled into two underserved communities in Mexico—the rural town of Chichimilá and a neighborhood in Cancún—to host a pair of free spay/neuter clinics. A team of veterinarians “fixed” nearly 500 cats and dogs for their loving guardians and helped them with basic preventive care. But our crew didn’t expect to find a sad little stowaway, who would end up making the voyage with them all the way back to Norfolk, Virginia. Enter Gordon. This small brown dog, who was enduring life on the streets, homeless, and suffering from a host of medical issues, wandered str ..read more

Progress! The nonprofit GreaterGood has scrapped its “humane” claims about wool and silk following a warning from PETA. In March 2024, we fired off a letter to the organization’s CEO informing him that cruelty is the norm in the wool and silk industries. PETA entities have revealed that workers mutilate screaming, defenseless sheep for wool and that delicate silkworms are boiled to death in their cocoons for silk. GreaterGood made misleading claims about “100% verified and cruelty free wool,” “[h]umanely gathered alpaca wool,” and “cruelty-free” silk. As we noted in our letter, these claims de ..read more

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Universities across the country are getting away with murder, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is their accomplice. NIH is charged with policing the animal experimentation facilities that it funds with nearly $20 billion in taxpayer money each year. But it has failed to adequately address a string of alarming welfare violations at Johns Hopkins University, including the recent deaths of a dog and a rabbit, as well as repeated incidents of noncompliance at various other NIH-funded institutions. So PETA is going over the agency’s head and calling on the Office of Inspector General at ..read more

Today, at an under tack show held by Ocala Breeders’ Sales (OBS) in Ocala, Florida, a reckless sprint event turned deadly: A horse was killed by track staff after a collision, and a jockey lay motionless on the ground. The event livestream, now deleted from the OBS webpage, shows the young horse colliding at high speed with a track barrier. The collision flings the jockey into the railing, and from there, he tumbles to the ground. The horse then collapses just past his motionless body. (This danger is why some jockeys refer to these events as “suicide shows.”) Footage then shows track officia ..read more

Nearly 30 years after actor and PETA honorary board member Alicia Silverstone first teamed up with us encouraging students to “cut out” dissection, she’s back—joined by her son Bear—for a new anti-dissection campaign. Their mission: to give students and parents the lowdown on why animal dissection is, like, totally uncool—and downright cruel! In the U.S., an estimated 10 million animals, including frogs, cats, and fetal pigs, are killed and dissected every year. They’re often obtained from facilities that breed animals solely for dissection or tear them away from their homes in nature, just s ..read more