Animal Welfare

Spanish matador Jose Maria Manzanares performs a pass with a muleta on a bull during a bullfight at the Malagueta bullring in Malaga (Photo by JORGE GUERRERO/AFP via Getty Images)

Bullfighting excluded as Spain tightens animal welfare rules

Squirrel and Bear are brothers needing a home at the Wimbledon, Wandsworth and Sutton branch - rescued from a large multi-animal home when the owner became overwhelmed (RSPCA/Supplied)

RSPCA 'overwhelmed' by hundreds of unwanted bunnies, rats and mice

This is the tank Lolita and Li'i the dolphin shared for many years (Peta/Supplied)

Aquarium slammed for sending Lolita the orca's only companion to SeaWorld

The RSPCA is this year backing Guinea Pig Awareness Week, as it deals with a big spike in the tiny critters coming through its doors (RSPCA/Supplied)

RSPCA centres jam-packed with 'cruelly abandoned' guinea pigs

Ebony the mule, who had to be put down, and her two donkey companions were found living in a paddock full of poisonous ragwort (RSPCA/Supplied)

New life for neglected donkeys rescued from 'hazard-strewn' field

Brucella canis can spread from dogs to humans in rare cases (NationalWorld/Adobe Stock)

Explainer Three people in UK test positive for bacterial disease spreading in dogs

CCTV still Beast, an XL bully who went on to kill 10-year-old Jack Lis, barking at a man outside a store in Caerphilly (Photo: PA Wire/Gwent Police)

'Suella de Vil' might be barking up the wrong tree with breed ban Amber Allott

The RSPCA says some of the methods used by the Dog Daddy can make frightened dogs' behaviour worse (Youtube/@TheDogDaddyofficial)

The Dog Daddy controversy explained, as RSPCA warns owners against UK shows

Ruben the lion with his first-ever toy (Photo: SWNS/ADI)

'World's loneliest lion' makes epic 5,200-mile journey

Whalers cut open a 35-tonne Fin whale caught aboard a Hvalur boat off the western coast of Iceland. (Photo: HALLDOR KOLBEINS/AFP via Getty Images)

Animal rights groups 'devastated' as Iceland lifts whaling ban

Bramble now lives at Queen Mary’s School in North Yorkshire (RSPCA/Supplied)

Meet Bramble, the once-abused pony helping young people in her new home

The RSPCA prosecuted a Wigan man over social media videos which showed him beating his staffie, Nala (RSPCA/Supplied)

Violent attack on fox cub among 1,600 social media animal cruelty reports

Lolita the orca had been controversially kept in captivity for more than 50 years, in an enclosure activists slammed for being far too small (Phil Demers / SWNS)

Lolita the orca dies before seeing the sea again, after 50 years in captivity

The two cats both found dead by the RSPCA in happier times (RSPCA/Supplied)

Woman banned from owning pets for five years after starving cats to death

Campaigners angry after government scraps its animal welfare bill

Paora, Zoo Miami's resident kiwi bird, was the first of his kind hatched in Florida (Photo: Zoo Miami)

Explainer Miami zoo cancels kiwi bird encounter after fierce backlash

UK ivory ban to extend to hippos, killer whales and three other species. (Photo: NationalWorld/Kim Mogg/Adobe Stock)

Ivory ban to extend to hippos, killer whales and three other species

Animal testing licences for make-up products banned in UK. (Photo: Getty Images)

Animal testing licences for make-up products banned in UK

The RSPCA has issued a warning after a number of suspected cat poisonings

RSPCA issues warning to pet owners after suspected cat poisonings

Charity takes government to court over breeding of ‘Frankenchickens’. (Photo: Danny Halpin/PA Wire)

Charity takes government to court over breeding of ‘Frankenchickens’

(Photos: Getty Images/Castro County Sheriff’s Office)

South Fork Dairy farm fire kills 18,000 cows after Texas ‘explosion’

Nueva Pescanova's proposed octopus farm in the Canary Islands would raise about a million octopuses each year for the food market (Photos: Adobe Stock)

Analysis Octopus farming ‘unsustainable, inhumane, and completely unnecessary’

The zoo worker wrestles with the lion who is biting his finger after he put it through the bars (Pic: @OneciaG/Twitter)

Lion bites off finger video: zoo worker loses finger to lion

British free range eggs were off the menu for more than a month (image: AFP/Getty Images)

Why did free range eggs disappear from supermarkets?

Animal welfare protesters slam Morrisons for selling ‘Frankenchickens’

Pet charity Blue Cross is calling for an end to “horrendously bad breeding” of certain dogs, cats and rabbits, like pugs (pictured).

Calls for crackdown to end ‘over-breeding’ of pugs and bulldogs