If you did that to a dog for a week, you would face animal cruelty charges.
Nikolas Galiatsatos has been charged with animal cruelty and other offences in Upper Darby, near Philadelphia.
James Gray, 46, who lived at Spindle Farm, Amersham, was jailed for animal cruelty offences.
The FBI also identified a British-based group, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, as a U.S. terror threat.
Stevens was charged in 2004 with violating interstate commerce laws by selling depictions of animal cruelty.
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The Huntingdon lab itself has been under vicious attack by the group calling itself Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty.
Seven members of the same family are in court over charges of animal cruelty at Crunchy's Rescue in Longworth.
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With the new law, a first offense of animal cruelty is a felony.
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More than 29, 000 complaints of animal cruelty were investigated by the RSPCA in Wales last year, new figures show.
Police said they had encountered 'an element of hostility' as they carried out follow-up inquiries into the animal cruelty.
The court heard all six were members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty SHAC.
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Stevens, the Court struck down a federal law that criminalized the creation or sale of videos showing actual animal cruelty.
Indonesian officials have rebuffed claims of widespread animal cruelty in their abattoirs.
Hunting used to be supported even by charities campaigning against animal cruelty.
Officials abandoned that method of frogicide amid complaints of animal cruelty and because of environmental-regulation hurdles, according to frog experts and official reports.
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Los Angeles County Animal Care and Control officials plan to file felony animal cruelty charges against a man described as an animal hoarder.
Other questions encompassed hydrotherapy for people with progressive conditions, immigration applications, and whether CCTV cameras should be installed in abattoirs to reduce animal cruelty.
Getting a hoarder to stop is a complicated matter, says Debbie Kanaan, who oversees the animal cruelty division of the Los Angeles district attorney's office.
The claim was made by a prosecution lawyer during a hearing for two Belfast brothers charged after a police investigation into animal cruelty and illegal dog fighting.
Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick, one of the NFL's most dominant players, was ordered not to report to training camp after his recent indictment on charges of animal cruelty.
Earlier this year SGN did a similar project, partnering with the U.S. Humane Society on the game Fluff Friends to raise awareness around animal cruelty and thousands of dollars for the Humane Society.
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In June, company owner Jack DeCoster admitted to 10 civil counts of animal cruelty in Maine after a nonprofit animal welfare group conducted an undercover video investigation and forwarded its findings to Maine animal welfare officials.
The prosecutor, for his part, called it outright cruelty, telling the court that animal cruelty is usually a precursor to crimes against humans and that treating it seriously early on could lead to the possibility of rehabilitation.
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Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, a group that acts as a rallying point for extremists, sets up stalls in shopping malls with pictures of mangled animals and petitions to sign calling for an end to research using animals.
Only last week in Ohio a man with a menagerie of more than 50 animals, including tigers, giraffes and bears, decided to open up his cages and then shoot himself in the head - after being convicted of animal cruelty.
"To get courts to take these cases seriously can be a real challenge, " said Mr. LaBahn, who previously prosecuted animal-cruelty cases in California.
New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, a Republican, wrote a letter last month to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, urging the agency to deny the application, on animal-cruelty grounds.
The number of convictions for animal neglect and cruelty in cases brought by the RSPCA rose by a third in England and Wales last year.
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