Animal cruelty

A multi-state investigation into a dogfighting ring continues. This week police seized several more dogs. The case has taken authorities from New York to Meriden to Orange, and investigators expect it’s far from over.

A multi-state investigation into a dogfighting ring continues. This week police seized several more dogs. The case has taken authorities from New York to Meriden to Orange, and investigators expect it’s far from over.

Some of the dogs were chained up, including one to a radiator and another to a dishwasher. Others had cuts on them. All were made to live in their own filth, which left paws stained yellow, discolored from sitting in their own urine.

New London Animal Control is investigating after a young female Siamese mix cat was found abandoned near Mitchell College.

A New Haven woman is facing a cruelty to animals charge after police received a tip about videos on social media showing puppies being thrown, kicked, and abused, according to authorities. New Haven police were contacted about the videos Sunday. Officers went to a home on Sherman Avenue around 8 p.m. Sunday and arrested Anizya Elliot. Police also seized two…

A Connecticut veterinarian was charged Thursday in connection with the death of a puppy who was left too long on a heating pad — his second arrest on animal cruelty charges, police said. Authorities said Amr Wasfi, who has run the Black Rock Animal Hospital in Bridgeport since 1977, was scheduled to crop the 10-week-old puppy’s ears recently, but told…

Hamden animal control officers seized nearly three dozen animals from a home on Blue Hills Avenue on Monday morning.

A 68-year-old Long Island woman was arrested and charged Wednesday with five counts of animal cruelty after four dogs were found dead and various other pets were found living in squalor inside her residence, according to the Suffolk County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. According to Roy Gross, chief of the Suffolk County SPCA, Donna Hulse, of…

A Maryland woman has been sentenced to prison for animal cruelty charges after 27 dogs were found dead and another 27 were discovered in poor condition inside a home she rented with her husband

Federal officials are investigating an Oklahoma zoo made famous in Netflix’s “Tiger King” series after an animal rights group accused it of neglect.

At a Bloomfield town meeting, people came out to speak for or against a dog breeder accused of animal cruelty. Margaret Boisture faces several charges including animal cruelty, failure to vaccinate for rabies, and operating a kennel after having a license revoked or suspended. During the meeting, Boisture’s son and mom spoke out, saying the accusations against her are...

The community packed a meeting in Bloomfield Thursday to speak about the arrest of a local dog breeder on animal cruelty charges.

A South Windsor woman is facing animal cruelty charges after more than a dozen dogs were found living in what police said were unacceptable conditions in Bloomfield. Police said the investigation began on January 22 when Bloomfield’s animal control officer received a report of dogs left outside overnight in freezing temperature at a property on Tunxis Avenue Extension. Animal Control…

The attorney is general is going to court in hopes that the state will be granted permanent custody of nearly 200 animals that were seized from a farm in Suffield in January. Officials said the animals were starving and in need of medical attention. Police said last month that the animals, including cattle, ducks, chickens and dogs, had been deprived…

A Kentucky man is facing animal cruelty charges after police say he killed and skinned four of his neighbors’ dogs to make a “doggy coat.” Kentucky State Police arrested 38-year-old Jonathan D. Watkins on December 23rd after being alerted by neighbors.

Former employees of a troubled Connecticut animal rescue say there were told to lie about sick animals and conditions at the facility, and worry that state inspectors didn’t do enough to help.

A Watertown man is accused of animal cruelty after a dog was found with bruises, broken teeth and a possible concussion. The man is also accused of holding a hatchet during a confrontation with the dog’s owners.

New Britain Police have arrested a man who is accused of abusing his dog and causing multiple fractures on the dog’s body.

An Arizona man has been arrested on suspicion of mutilating and beheading his roommate’s dog as she moved out of the home that the two shared in a Phoenix suburb. Jose Vega Meza, 21, told investigators that he killed the dog on Saturday because his roommate owed rent money to his mother, who owns the home in the city of...