Animal Rights

Dogs Used in Horrendous Game of "Trunking" Rescued in South Miami-Dade

Apparently regular old dog fighting isn't inhumane and horrible enough for some people. Miami-Dade County Animal Services say they have rescued a group of dogs from the Goulds area used in a form of dog fighting called "trunking."

Coconut Grove Goes to the Dogs at Spankyfest Pub Crawl

Miamians sure do love their pets. On Lincoln Road, hundreds of pampered pooches (and an occasional cat, monkey, or iguana) can be seen wearing designer duds. There they are, strolling on rhinestone leashes (in some cases, maybe even diamonds) and having a snack at an outdoor café.Yet for every dog ... More >>

RA Sushi Debuts Short Order's Winning Sushi Roll to Benefit Homeless Pets

Animal lovers, March is the time to haul ass to RA Sushi in South Miami, where the purchase of a mouthwatering roll means helping homeless pets. And what's worthier than adorable puppies and cutie-pie kittens? Last month, Short Order's Laine Doss took home top prize in RA's Foodies Show Heart chari ... More >>

Florida Animal Services Director Resigns After Allegedly Talking About "Tijuana Donkey Shows"

If your job is to run a department charged with protecting animal welfare, there are a few choice topics best left alone in conversations with your employees. Tijuana donkey shows are definitely on that list.Pinellas County's Animal Services director, Phillip Morgan, learned that lesson the hard way ... More >>

Hurricane Sandy Coming? Weather Puppy Will Make That Natural Disaster So Much Cuter

As Hurricane Sandy continues its churn across the Caribbean, tearing up Cuba and barreling toward the Bahamas with Cat 2 winds, fear not, Southern Floridians. Weather Puppy is here to make the natural disaster that much cuter.Invented by Miami entrepreneur Suraj Hemnani and business partner Shiv Tak ... More >>

Russell Simmons Asks New York to Ban Milk Along with Soda

In what I can only describe as PETA's latest inventive publicity stunt, prominent vegan and record producer Russell Simmons (in partnership with PETA) sent a letter to New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley on Friday, congratulating him on the proposed ban on large (16 oz. or larger) su ... More >>

It Will Soon Be Legal to Dye Baby Chicks Any Color You Want in Florida

What the hell happens up in Tallahassee sometimes? Seriously?See, the apparently powerful dog grooming lobby convinced our elected officials to take time out of their busy legislative session to lift an old ban on dying live animals. They were actually successful, but the ban now means that the cont ... More >>

Pit Bull Ban Lives On in Miami-Dade As Repeal Falls One Vote Short in Tallahassee

​A full month before the season kicks off, Mark Buehrle is close to taking his first loss in Miami. The new Marlins ace is celebrity spokesman number one for pit bulls and the activists trying to overturn Miami-Dade's two-decade ban on the dog breed. Along with his wife, he's vocally pushed for la ... More >>

Dog Adoption at Miami-Dade Shelter Halted, 23 Dogs Euthanized After Viral Outbreak

​Miami-Dade Animal Services began the year by euthanizing 23 dogs January 1 after the animals showed signs of an upper respiratory infection. Lab results show 18 of those dogs tested positive for distemper, and now the animal shelter has put a stop to dog adoption for the next two weeks.

Bill That Would Make Photographing a Farm a Crime in Florida is Back

​So you're in your friend's passenger seat cruising down I4 when you spot some cows grazing on farmland. You ask your friend to pull over for a second so you can whip out your iPhone and take a quick snapshot of the majestic bovines. Seems innocent enough? Well, Republican state Sen. Jim Norman th ... More >>

Another Cat Killer? Ten Cats Found Poisoned in the Hammocks

​Ten cats were found dead in a yard in the Hammocks on Monday morning, and another three were so ill they had to be euthanized. One of the cats was found with signs of head trauma, but authorities suspect that all of the felines were likely poisoned.

Brutal Illegal Slaughter Farm Raided in Hialeah (Warning: Graphic Video)

Richard "Kudo" Couto is the animal activist responsible for the closure of an entire district of illegal slaughter farms in Northwest Miami-Dade County, through the use of commando tactics like secret surveillance. By the time you're reading this on Saturday afternoon, Kudo's efforts should have le ... More >>

Troubled Miami-Dade Animal Shelter Kills Dozens of Cats. More Die. Adoption Needed.

​Seventy-two cats have been killed and 14 have died after an outbreak of disease at the Miami-Dade Animal Shelter. About 40 more healthy felines have been been moved r due to the disease, which is called panleukopenia. A group called Undercats 4 Life is attempting to find homes for some of th ... More >>

PETA Mocks Florida Shark Attack Victim in Stupid New Ad

​No matter how much you may love animals, can we just all agree that PETA has become the worst? They're obnoxious turds who actually kill thousands of animals, not to mention they have some of the stupidest, most cloying advertising not dreamed up by Crispin Porter. Now they've put up a billboard ... More >>

Monkey Cannibals: Robert Conyers Charged With Animal Cruelty UPDATE

L.A. City Attorney's OfficeIsn't this how 28 Days Later begins?​Miami freight shipper Robert Matson Conyers was charged with animal cruelty yesterday after a tri-continental shipment of monkeys turned into a cannibalistic simian catastrophe.Guyanese animal supplier Akhtar Hussain hired Conyers to ... More >>

15 Food Statistics That Should Make You Cry

2 million: Dogs and cats abused and killed by the international fur industry each year -- including by the Burlington Coat Factory, which used to sell "Mongolian Dog Fur" that was made from domesticated dogs. Humane Society of the United States (HSUS).24: Number of cats it takes to make a fur coat i ... More >>

Woman Will Eat Dog Food on YouTube Every Day Until Animal Rights Law Passes

​As a Miami Beach resident Nikki Moustaki has an almost endless array of great dining right outside her doorstep, and yet everyday she eats dog food and uploads the dining experience to YouTube. The host of a pet related show on The Beach Channel plans to eat dog food at least once a day ever ... More >>

Adoptions of Black Cats Halted in Palm Beach Until After Halloween

​Palm Beach County is apparently full of sadistic weirdos and people who love exuberant parties, so it only makes sense that three animal shelters in the county have banned adoption of black cats until after Halloween. The shelters fear that the cats may be harmed due to All Hallow's Eve ... More >>

Protesters in Fake Blood and Dead Animal Parts Will Picket Miss Teen Florida USA Pageant

​We're not sure what's stupider: that a fur coat company is supplying sponsorship and prizes to a teen beauty pageant in Florida, or that an animal rights group is going to protest it while wearing furs themselves. Yes, the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida is pissed that the Fur ... More >>

Grovites Are Angry the Miami Herald Ignored Local Guy Ric O'Barry's Best Documentary Oscar

Ric O'Barry​The email arrived at the Miami Herald yesterday with some choice words about the paper's Oscar coverage. It came from Bob Ingram, a folk singer who has lived in Coconut Grove since the '60s. Here's an excerpt from the letter, which was never published: "When the Miami Herald reported ... More >>

Got Milk? Got Ethics? Got A Barf Bag? Then Get Ready For This

ABC News Nightline aired an exposé on the dairy industry last night that should outrage any human being with feelings. "Got Milk? Got Ethics? Animal Rights v. U.S. Dairy Industry," written by Brian Ross and Anna Schecter, included a video made inside a huge New York farm, Willet Dairy, milk from wh ... More >>

Miami Pit Bull Owners Plan Broward Get-Together This Weekend To Protest Ban

In this week's New Times, you read about how difficult it is for police to break up brutal dog-fighting rings -- even with tough new laws on the books. Unless cops see a fight in person, as they did in a Miami case, they rarely get the conviction.via Miami Coaltion Against Breed Specific Legislation ... More >>

Animal Instincts

Zoophiles love and have sex with animals. Will the world ever accept them?

You Know You've Impressed Fellow Animal Lovers At Bar Rosso's Pooches and Piccolini When...

Jackie SayetI fetch like a dog. Can I come, too?Your frisky feline struts her stuff to the soiree on a leash. Kitty extends a peace paw to Jack Russell.You show up dressed as your pet.Your pet shows up dressed as you. Fido gets carded, and flashes his own collar-handy ID, his graduation certifi ... More >>

Che Guevara's Granddaughter Poses Topless for PETA

via El MundoJust yesterday, PETA tried to jump on the coattails of the cat killer case by pushing their anti-dissection agenda, but we've got a feeling the fallout from their latest stunt is really going to make certain corners of Miami explode with outrage. They've convinced Lydia Gu ... More >>

Miami According to Brooklyn

Commish Joe Sanchez deserves a handshake.

Adopt-a-Taco

Eat a taco and save this cat (or one like it).Celebrations begin at 5:30 p.m. April 16 for the grand opening of Lime Fresh Mexican Grill's Midtown Miami location (3201 N. Miami Ave.). Free beer samples from Dos XX will be on tap. There will be complimentary hors d'oeuvres, cocktails and, tacos, and ... More >>

Refining Rover

Not one, but two events for animal lovers!

Letters from the Issue of August 21, 2008

"The python is dangerous and can attack, strangle, and easily kill even a grown man. Why doesn't Selene try hunting pythons?"

The Party Crasher - Pamela Does Pangaea

The Dog Whisperer isn't Feeling Miami's Pit Bull Ban

Tigers, Cougars, and More in the Back Yard

Miami's feline fringe is a vanishing breed

Death in the City Beautiful

Neighbors are squawking about a Santería ritual. But the Supreme Court says it's okay

Party Animals

Letters from the Issue of June 15, 2006

"Anger, ignorance, and revenge have returned to prominence”

Letters from the Issue of April 27, 2006

"There was a very foul smell coming from the nearby beach"

Pup Art

Basket Babes

Letters from the Issue of October 21-27, 2002

Porn merchants, freedom fighters, park advocates, and your waitress Tiffany

Wild and Crazy

Guess what happens when an eccentric ecologist and a couple of feisty backwoods boys claim that a rare Florida panther is on the attack

Bout Face

Big boys brawl

"KILL 'EM"

Loving moments at the World Series

Best Dog Park

Kennedy Park

Best Not-So-Cheap Thrill

Swim with the dolphins

Get Shorty

A stubby-legged feline fad has the fur flying between entrepreneurial cat fanciers and animal-welfare activists

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If We Could Talk to the Animals...

"Wheet! Wheet!" would mean "Get out of my way, you stupid possum!" Or so the Hollywood mmission thinks.

Dead On Arrival, 119 Times Over

Indonesian crab-eating macaques are favored by medical researchers. But if Miami primate dealer Matthew Block's late-August shipment was bound for the lab, it never got that far.

All Guts, No Glory