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Vadodara Police booked a 60-year-old man for allegedly beating a stray dog to death in a fit of rage after the dog tore open the backseat of his auto rickshaw. Navapura police station is yet to arrest the accused. The incident occurred in the Shiyapura area of the city where ...

A Cambodian province popular with tourists has banned the trade and slaughtering of dogs for meat, saying that canines are loyal and capable of protecting property and even serving in the military. Siem Reap province, home to the ancient Angkor Wat ruins, is the first place to issue such a ...

Dogs do not simply age at seven times the rate of humans, scientists have found in a study that reveals young dogs might be “older” than previously thought. The findings suggest a one-year-old puppy is actually about 30 in “human years” – an age when humans, at least, might be ...

In recent times, there has been a spate of horrific incidents of animals being abused and killed in the country, that has stirred public outrage and shamed humanity. Now, in another instance, a post surfaced on Twitter about dogs allegedly being transported across the state borders of West Bengal and ...

Unabated sale of dogs for consumption in Nagaland has once again drawn the attention and ire of Lok Sabha Member of Parliament(MP), Maneka Gandhi, who is also one of the leading animal rights activists in the country. Maneka has shot off a letter to Jitendra Singh, minister of state for ...

With the increasing number of stray dogs and over 600 dog bite cases per month reported at Civil Hospital, the municipal corporation (MC) has decided to sterilize the canine population. The process of the survey has begun and it is expected that the sterilization campaign will start on July 10. ...

Dogs play an important role in human life all over the world—whether as a family member or as a working animal. But where the dog comes from and how old various groups of dogs are is still a bit of a mystery. Now, light has been shed on the origin ...

Furious over his goat being bitten by a stray dog, a man in Cuttack district of Odisha poisoned over 40 dogs in his village to avenge what happened to his goat. The incident took place in the Mahanga area under Choudwar Police Station Limits of Cuttack district in Odisha. Reportedly, ...

The Municipal Corporation’s (MC) sterilization drive to control the population of stray dogs has found no takers. The civic body failed to find any agency in several tenders floated in the past 10 months. The contract period of the firm, which was doing the job earlier, had also expired. Following ...

Well, it seems like the Chinese don’t like to learn from their mistakes! That’s why the controversial Yulin Dog Meat Festival, where thousands of dogs are beaten and killed, has kicked off in China despite protests from animal rights activists. Not just them, the Chinese government has also discouraged the ...