Throughout the history of human conflicts, animals have been victims of war. During World War I, dogs and pigeons were used to deliver messages between frontline trenches and further afield.
Posted 03 Sep 2016
Andrew Tyler (Animal Aid's director from 1994 to 2016) explains a change of emphasis for our animal victims of war initiative.
Posted 03 Sep 2016
Pigeons are one of the few species of wild animal with which town and city dwellers have regular contact, so they are popular with a lot of people. However, the cost of cleaning their droppings...
Posted 02 Sep 2016
Badgers are being shot in government-sanctioned culls around the UK. The wild animals are said to be a 'reservoir' for bovine TB – a disease that affects cows, and can be spread by farmers moving...
Posted 01 Sep 2016
Rats sadly have a poor reputation, but anyone that looks after a ‘pet’ rat will know how clean, sociable and bright they are.
Posted 01 Sep 2016
Reports released to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism have revealed that more than 4,000 severe breaches of animal welfare regulations took place in UK slaughterhouses over the past two years. The shocking incidents detailed in...
Posted 30 Aug 2016
Cows are farmed for both dairy and beef, and account for almost 10 million individuals in the UK alone. In natural conditions, cows live in small, matriarchal groups and form close bonds with each other,...
Posted 25 Aug 2016
A report published today (19 August), by a team of independent experts headed by Sheffield Hallam University Professor Ian Rotherham, finds that the cost of independent monitoring of CCTV inside England's slaughterhouses is likely to...
Posted 19 Aug 2016
The animal experiments The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) in Potters Bar, UK breeds, maintains and experiments on a colony of dogs with the canine equivalent of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). This is the most common...
Posted 16 Aug 2016
It is a poor reflection on the scientific community that every year in Britain hundreds of thousands of animals are bred and killed, for their tissues or organs to be used in experiments, when an...
Posted 10 Aug 2016