NEWS
August 1, 2003
IT IS regrettable that the prestigious Liacouras Center at Temple will be the site of a panorama of pain euphemistically termed a "circus. " Sterling & Reid Bros. will be bringing a collection of captive animal pawns forced to perform unnatural and frightening acts as a result of the generous use of whips, bullhooks, electric prods and deprivation of food and water. Circuses are nothing more than an exercise in cruelty and exploitation masquerading as family entertainment.
NEWS
September 20, 1992 | By Lea Sitton, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
An SPCA agent interrupted what looked like a ritualistic ceremony last night when he went to check out a report of live and dead animals in a house in Kensington, police said. The residents of the home, in the 2000 block of East Ontario Street, were arrested at the scene and charged with cruelty to animals and conspiracy. Detectives identified them as William Nenadich, 52, and Clara Nenadich, 47. Police said SPCA agent Gary Lovett knocked at the door of the house, and was allowed in, after a report came into police at 6:30 p.m. Lovett told detectives that inside the house he saw a large group of people who looked like they were conducting a ceremony, and he said there appeared to be an altar with religious statues.
NEWS
December 8, 1988 | By Charlie Frush, Inquirer Staff Writer
A Southampton pet shop owner was fined $1,000 yesterday after the municipal judge found her guilty of cruelty to animals for leaving 19 dogs and cats unattended over a long weekend in October. Judge Dennis P. McInerney said he did not believe defendent Cheryl Hagenbarth of Vineland when she testified that she had visited her store, Just Pups, on Route 206 in Vincentown, during the weekend in question and attended the animals. The judge said that photos of the animals in their cages presented by prosecutor Mark Tarantino were "very disturbing . . . and very difficult for me to even look at. " The photos were taken by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA)
NEWS
June 19, 1997 | by Robert Bianco, For the Daily News
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORER'S SAVAGE GARDEN. 7 p.m. Sunday, TBS. If TBS is going to scare us out of our gardens, the least it could do is give us something decent to watch once we get inside. Instead, Sunday night it gives us "National Geographic Explorer's Savage Garden," a self-proclaimed "natural history comedy" that is one of the strangest specials ever to disturb a summer evening. Hosted by Leslie Nielsen, "Savage Garden" tells us the back yard is a "killing field" ruled by "stalkers and serial killers" - and then tries to exploit the carnage for cheap laughs.
NEWS
November 2, 2011 | By Mari A. Schaefer, Inquirer Staff Writer
A dog that shelter workers called the victim of the worst cruelty they had ever seen is recovering at the Delaware County SPCA. It will be five to seven days before it is known if the pit bull-boxer mix, dubbed Curious George for his curious nature, will survive, said Justina Calgiano, spokesperson for the Media-based shelter. The dog weighs 35 pounds, half what it should, she said. His nails are overgrown, and he has sores on his backside, probably the result of sitting too long in one spot.
NEWS
July 23, 2010 | By GLORIA CAMPISI, campisg@phillynews.com 215-854-5935
Their first steps outdoors were tentative. The dogs didn't know what grass was, an animal rescuer said yesterday of the Chihuahuas that his group took in from among 88 seized from an accused South Philadelphia animal hoarder last week. "When we took them out on grass, it was actually sad," said Bill Smith, of Main Line Animal Rescue. "I don't think they knew how to walk on grass. " The Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals plans to charge the dogs' owner, who remains unidentified by authorities but who neighbors called "Frannie," with more than 130 counts of cruelty related to the Chihuahuas and other animals seized from a home on Earp Street near 8th, according to PSPCA chief operating officer Marc Peralta.
NEWS
June 30, 1999
I was watching Game 5 of the NBA playoffs, and while I was monitoring the commercials, it struck me that they were not just nasty or discourteous - they were cruel. In a Dr. Pepper commercial, a boy is eaten by alligators in a swamp, while his girlfriend coyly asks, "Can I have your Dr. Pepper?" In a Chevrolet commercial, a man falls over a stump while his girlfriend tries to get a picture not of him, but of a Chevy Cavalier. In an Adidas commercial, a boy who's looking for a lost ball gets left to a nasty dog while the other kids run away.
NEWS
September 21, 1989 | BY CLEVELAND AMORY, From the New York Times
Ask an experimenter about the animals in his laboratory. Nine times out of 10 he will tell you that they are well cared for and that he abides by the Animal Welfare Act passed by Congress in 1966. What he will not say is that both he and his colleagues fought the act and the amendments to it every step of the way; that, under the act, his laboratory is inspected at most (if at all) once a year; that when his animals are under experimentation, the act doesn't apply. Nor will he say that many laboratories ignore the act's most important amendment, passed in 1986, which mandates that at least one member of the public vote on the laboratory's animal care committee.
ENTERTAINMENT
July 12, 2011
Got few minutes? A few bucks? A heart? You can pitch in at the PSPCA, 350 E. Erie Ave., 215-426-6300, pspca.org, volunteers@pspca.org . If you wanna go First, sign up for an hourlong volunteer orientation (there are four each month). When you're done, you'll be able to get right to work - and you can come back at your convenience to: Play with a dog outside. Hand-feed a dog or a cat. Clean cat cages. Do laundry. Take photos of animals. Greet clients.
SPORTS
November 8, 2007 | Daily News Wire Services
Jonathan Babineaux expressed relief yesterday after he was cleared of a felony animal cruelty charge that could have sent the Atlanta Falcons defensive tackle to prison. "I'm just happy the whole situation is over with," Babineaux said. "It's been a long process. I've been waiting it out and it's finally over. " Gwinnett County (Ga.) District Attorney Danny Porter said yesterday he dismissed the charges following an investigation of the death of a pit bull in February. Pat McDonough, Babineaux's attorney, said it proved Babineaux acted only in self-defense against the aggressive dog that belonged to the player's girlfriend.