Dogs

In this straight-talking ad, Simon Cowell has some advice that’s impossible to argue with: never, ever leave a dog inside a hot car.

The animals crowned as “winners” at dog shows like Crufts are more likely to be major losers – in the genetic lottery, that is.

Ever since pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca decided to close its dog-breeding facility in Sweden, the fate of more than 300 beagles has been hanging in the balance.

Swedish former Playboy model Victoria Silvstedt was horrified when she heard that over 300 dogs may be shipped from her home country to UK laboratories for cruel animal tests.

A young seagull was shot through the neck with a crossbow in Inverness, and sausages laced with nails were left on playing fields in Monmouthshire to injure dogs.

Lacey Banghard teamed up with PETA to stand up for what she believes in – safe sex for cats and dogs!

Beagles in laboratories spend their lonely lives in cages and are often poisoned with drugs, burned with chemicals or cut open in experimental surgical procedures.

Pamela Anderson asked PETA India’s Poorva Joshipura to bring a homeless puppy to her.

Uggie, the Jack Russell terrier, who stars in the multi-Oscar-winning smash hit The Artist, is helping animals by appearing in a PETA ad.

If your dogs’ tails are wagging a little more today, maybe they’ve heard the news that Ireland has banned puppy mills!