A reward offered in the search for suspects in the gruesome beating and torture of a pet cat in Utah now stands at more than $40,000. The Humane Society of Utah says an anonymous donor contributed $10,000. The 6-year-old cat named Sage belonged to a family from Clearfield, north of Salt Lake City. Sage went missing March 5, was found Wednesday and died Thursday.

The United States Department of Agriculture shut down an online database Friday that included information about animals mistreated, injured and killed. The USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) cited privacy concerns in removing the documents, but one animal welfare activist said he believes the department is caving to pressure from groups that didn't like the information being so easily accessible.

The show industry looks the other way when trainers intentionally harm horses’ feet to make them step higher. By Josh Balk.

The canine seen in TMZ's disturbing video posted earlier on Wednesday came from Birds & Animals Unlimited, says the animal rights' group.

The Michigan Humane Society is offering a $2,500 reward for tips leading to the person or persons responsible for maiming a dog found with his ears and nose cut off on Detroit’s southwest side this week. A citizen spotted the severely wounded brown-and-tan Rottweiler mix near Livernois and Warren on Tuesday and alerted the humane society, officials said in a statement. A rescue team found the dog and rushed him to the group’s Mackey Center for Animal Care in Detroit, where veterinarian staff tended to him.

A fishing trip off Perth made Dan Maio realise he was “an arsehole.”

Think of a farm and what comes to mind? Lambs leaping through a field, pigs rolling around in the mud and cows chomping on lush grass. Sadly, that vision is now a rarity - most chickens, ducks and turkeys in the UK are farmed in huge industrial sheds and a whopping 99 per cent of farm animals in the US are reared in factory farms, according to the ASPCA.

A lawsuit tried to force California to sell factory farm eggs from states where hens were cruelly treated. By Wayne Pacelle.

When I teach practical ethics, I encourage my students to take the arguments we discuss outside the classroom. For Americans, there is no better occasion for a conversation about the ethics of what we eat than Thanksgiving, the holiday at which, more than any other, we come together around a meal. The traditional centerpiece of the Thanksgiving meal is a turkey, so that is the obvious place to start. According to the National Turkey Federation, about 46 million turkeys are killed for Thanksgiving each year. The vast majority of them — at least 99% — are raised on factory farms.

A Reason investigation reveals widespread, unchecked violence against pets during drug raids. By C.J. Ciaramella.

For animal people. Pass it on. By Ameena Schelling.

Almost 100 puppies hidden behind bales of wood shavings in lorries on two separate ferries have been rescued at a Welsh port. The RSPCA-led, multi-agency operation tackling illegal animal importation was launched in Holyhead on Tuesday morning. The illegal trafficking of puppies is a major issue for the RSPCA, with the charity deeply concerned that large quantities of young puppies are transported into England and Wales, with welfare problems often a major concern.

“Young Blood for Old Brains” lecture summarizes efforts to use the blood of young people to cure neurological diseases in the elderly. By Becky Ferreira.

Animal rights groups have called for the permanent return home of “the saddest polar bear in the world”, who will be temporarily moved from a shopping mall aquarium in southern China during an upgrade. The three-year-old female bear, named Pizza, has become a focus of global attention since Hong Kong-based Animal Asia posted in July an online video of the bear lying on her side in a glass enclosure in Guangzhou.

Animal welfare campaigners have decried incidents of monkeys dying from strangulation, water deprivation, poor handling by staff and attempted escapes. By Oliver Milman.

Releasing shocking hidden camera videos, a small animal rights group based in Lyon, France has reignited the debate on animal cruelty, causing French authorities to close down several abattoirs and launch a parliamentary inquiry. The videos have come as a shock to many, including in the farming world. Philippe Notin is a third-generation organic farmer from the Loire region. He is a minority shareholder in the slaughterhouse where his animals are killed, which he says gives him a say about what goes on there.

Sir David Attenborough has joined forces with leading scientists and animal welfare experts to call for an end to the use primates in certain types of “cruel” testing by neuroscientists. The leading naturalist and broadcaster said recent breakthroughs in understanding primates’ capacity to feel suffering and pain meant it was time to stop funding some potentially painful or cruel types of experiments.

Inside the weirdly deep, surprisingly fraught field of fish pain.

Fur seems to be making a high fashion comeback, the September issue of National Geographic reports. “The current revival is a story of the fur trade responding to its critics and often outmaneuvering them, combined with increased demand from the newly wealthy in China, South Korea, and Russia,” writes Richard Conniff. After the animal welfare movement hit a high-water mark in the 1990s, the movement has lost some ground. Nearly two-thirds of women’s 2016 fall fashion collections featured fur, according to the International Fur Federation.

There have been many examples of animal abuse for entertainment and commercial use all over the world. But animal cruelty in China tends to be getting more outrageous. Every year, approximately 10 million animals are killed for various reasons in the country. Of course, it’s not new that innocent animals are slowly tortured, beaten to death, or boiled alive. Some animals are used for their fur and often sold and shipped to other countries for use in clothing, while other creatures are slaughtered to be placed on restaurants’ menus.