Comedian Mike Epps drags distressed kangaroo on to stage, outrages fans

April 4, 2017

It’s not just animal rights activists who are angry at comedian Mike Epps after he forced a kangaroo on stage. He got plenty of…

Missing man’s friends find engorged python and sliced it open to discover the body

March 30, 2017

An Indonesian man who went missing in his village has been found after his friends discovered he had been swallowed whole by a python…

Meatless Monday: Animal activist allegedly assaulted after confronting snake-charmer

March 27, 2017

An animal rights activist was attacked outside the court after she stopped to question a snake-charmer mistreating a snake. The activist had stepped out…

Meatless Monday: Highest per capita number of vegans live in this country

March 27, 2017

And the answer is Israel! Huh, who would have guessed? We didn’t learn about that fact until we read this article in Israel21c in which we…

Man who shot, buried his dog at public beach faces animal cruelty charges, says it was kindness

March 27, 2017

Michael Whalen, a chiropractor in Virginia Beach, clearly loved his down Allie, a hound mix who was his companion for more than 15 years….

Czech zoo saws off horns to protect rhinos from poachers

March 24, 2017

It seems like a drastic measure. But after the killing of a white rhinoceros at the Thoriy Zoo in Paris earlier this month for…

Australian police minister breaks law after posting Twitter photo of sheep while driving

March 22, 2017

This tweet got Australia’s Police Minister Troy Grant into the doghouse. The National Party MP, who is the country’s police minister, had to admit…

UPDATE: Turtle name Bank who had 915 coins removed from belly dies

March 22, 2017

A sad update to report: the coin eating sea turtle from Thailand has died after failing to recover from surgery to remove all the…

Men who fed live cat to starved dogs ordered to clean Dubai zoo by Sheikh ruler

March 18, 2017

We here at Critterfiles have seen some pretty gruesome things humans do to critters. There was the recent story of the dog who had…

Protester disrupts SWSX event with A&M president over using dogs in research

March 13, 2017

A PETA supporter interrupted a panel discussion at Austin’s famous South by Southwest event to protest against Texas A&M University’s research experiments on dogs….