The owner of a dog that died after it was left outside in sweltering temperatures for several hours will have to serve a county jail sentence and a probation term. Jonathon Correa, 31, was also ordered Friday to 270 days in the Ocean County Jail as a condition of four years of supervised probation as the result of a plea…

A Kentucky man is facing animal cruelty charges after police say he killed and skinned four of his neighbors’ dogs to make a “doggy coat.” Kentucky State Police arrested 38-year-old Jonathan D. Watkins on December 23rd after being alerted by neighbors.

A Kentucky man is facing animal cruelty charges after police say he killed and skinned four of his neighbors’ dogs to make a “doggy coat.” WLEX’s Eleanor Buckley reports.

A Long Island man is facing multiple counts of animal cruelty after nearly a dozen dogs were found confined in filthy crates and on the verge of starvation, Suffolk County SPCA detectives say. Peter Watson, 55, was charged with multiple counts of animal cruelty by Suffolk County SPCA for failure to provide proper sustenance and medical care to his dogs….

The Suffolk County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is offering a $2,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person who threw a puppy out of a car on Long Island this week. The SPCA said it got a call Wednesday from someone who said he or she witnessed someone throw the 8-week-old pit bull…

A man accused of leaving a young pit bull mix to drown in a cage at water’s edge in a rising tide last year has been convicted of animal cruelty. Aaron Davis, 35, of Long Branch, will face up to 18 months in prison when he’s sentenced Feb. 14, after a Monmouth County jury convicted him on Thursday. A person…

An Upper Manhattan building superintendent, a veterinary worker and two other men have been charged with running a dogfighting ring after authorities said an identity theft investigation yielded an animal-abuse case. Investigators seized 29 pit bulls and other dogs this fall from cages, a closet and elsewhere in the men’s homes and found a dead dog in building superintendent Jose…

Prosecutors revealed tools kept in the defendants’ home used to get the dogs into fighting shape, including a treadmill the animals were forced to run on and brake sticks used to pry their jaws open. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports.

Nassau County police have arrested a man who allegedly bounded several cats and kittens with duct tape before throwing them into a trash chute.

A woman who allegedly abandoned three dogs that were found dead at a vacant New Jersey home this month is now charged with animal cruelty.

An Arizona man has been arrested on suspicion of mutilating and beheading his roommate’s dog as she moved out of the home that the two shared in a Phoenix suburb. Jose Vega Meza, 21, told investigators that he killed the dog on Saturday because his roommate owed rent money to his mother, who owns the home in the city of...

An Arizona man has been arrested on suspicion of mutilating and beheading his roommate’s dog as she moved out of the home that the two shared in a Phoenix suburb. Jose Vega Meza, 21, told investigators that he killed the dog on Saturday because his roommate owed rent money to his mother, who owns the home in the city of...

Thirty-eight dogs were confiscated Monday evening from a suspected puppy dumper’s home in Riverside County, animal services said.

A North Carolina man has been charged with abandoning a pet fish that authorities say he left behind without food when he was evicted. News outlets report that that New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office arrested 53-year-old Michael Hinson on Wednesday and charged him with one count of abandonment of an animal and three counts of misdemeanor cruelty to animals. Officials...

A transient probationer was charged Tuesday with binding a runaway Chihuahua and repeatedly kicking the dog in Santa Ana.

A Long Island man allegedly choked a dog and threw it to the ground several times in an incident that was caught on video.

PETA protested outside Canada Goose in New York Thursday, with some protestors going topless in the cold.

Animal control officers are investigating what may be a terrible case of animal cruelty. Inside an abandoned cardboard box in Fullerton, they discover an 18-month-old pug. Her hind legs appeared to have been deliberately severed.

Dozens of dogs and cats were rescued from two New Jersey homes as part of two animal cruelty investigations — some of which had fur so tangled that their limbs were “rendered useless,” authorities said.

Authorities have arrested a New Jersey man who is accused of leaving a young pit bull mix to drown in a cage at water’s edge in a rising tide.