Animal cruelty

A Massachusetts man has been arrested in connection with attacks on multiple cats in Cambridge, including one that was fatal, authorities said. A landlord and maintenance man said that video shared with NBC10 Boston shows a trail of cat food they say the man who was arrested left behind to lure cats into his first-floor apartment to abuse them. It…

A man was arrested on suspicion of torturing several cats in Cambridge, killing one of them. Police believe the man was luring neighborhood cats to his house.

Frantic 911 calls came in Saturday night as gunshots shattered the silence of a quiet neighborhood in Danvers, Massachusetts. Neighbor Sue Connolly thought it was fireworks. But witnesses and prosecutors say 54-year-old Michael Sirois had tied up his dog, Kuma, in his backyard after she had gotten into a fight with another dog. Sirois allegedly fired six to eight shots…

In today’s Daily Debrief, Bill Cosby is released from prison after his sexual assault conviction is overturned. Plus, a Danvers man accused of shooting and killing his dog is charged with animal cruelty. And the heat wave is finally winding down after three days of scorching hot temperatures.

A man charged with shooting and killing his dog appeared in court Wednesday.

A Massachusetts man accused of shooting his dog to death is being held without bail. Anthony Sirois of Danvers was arraigned Monday on animal cruelty and gun charges, the Essex County District Attorney’s Office said Tuesday. Sirois allegedly shot his dog multiple times Saturday. He claimed that the animal bit him and that the only way to stop it...

MSPCA officers believe three cases of cat abuse in Cambridge, Massachusetts could be related. The non-profit organization is now offering a $2,500 reward for information that leads to an animal cruelty conviction in the latest case. A six-year-old cat named Gosha, whose brutal death has been under investigation, had 11 BBs removed from his body and was burned as well. Gosha…

MSPCA officers believe three cases of cat abuse in Cambridge, Massachusetts could be related.

The torture and killing of a cat in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is now being investigated in connection with the maiming of two other cats, according to a local animal hospital.

The MSPCA is investigating what they’re calling a “horrific” case of animal cruelty in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Gosha, a 6-year-old tuxedo cat, never came home last week. He was found dead, tortured and shot with a BB gun. “He would go out and come back, and in the morning, he would always be there and we’d wake up, we have...

A disturbing case of animal cruelty is under investigation in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Authorities rescued and recovered five pit bulls while executing a search warrant in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood Saturday night, and a man at the home was arrested on multiple charges. Boston police detectives along with the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Boston Animal Control were searching 5 Toledo Terrace when they found the endangered animals and…

An animal rights group is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest after a 5-month-old coyote became ensnared in an illegal trap in Swampscott, Massachusetts, and had to be euthanized. The coyote was found emaciated with a broken jaw days after getting caught in a Duke #160 Trap, which is illegal in Massachusetts, near Tedesco Country Club….

Officials in Swampscott, Massachusetts, want answer after a coyote was found illegally trapped and injured.

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

After efforts to save a small dog Sunday afternoon in medical distress at a Massachusetts beach were unsuccessful, the dog’s owner is now facing animal cruelty charges, according to state police. State police said they responded to Revere Beach, near the Shirley Avenue Bathhouse, just after noon for a report of an injured dog. When troopers arrived, lifeguards from...

A Massachusetts woman is facing animal cruelty charges after witnesses told police they allegedly saw her abusing a dog that later died at Revere Beach on Sunday afternoon.

Sixty-five cats were removed from a home this week on Martha’s Vineyard, and a breeder will be charged with two counts of felony animal cruelty in the case, according to the Animal Rescue League of Boston. A search warrant was executed at the Edgartown home of Jennifer Winsper, 48, on Wednesday, the animal rescue said. The more than five dozen…

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

Police say a New Hampshire man accused of starving a dog to death has turned himself in. The Foster Daily Democrat reports Rochester police charged Michael Jouvelakas, 31, of Dover, with two counts of cruelty to animals. Police Capt. Todd Pinkham says authorities searched Jouvelakas’ home on Oct. 3 after receiving an anonymous tip that he had killed a 2-year-old…