Animal cruelty

A Massachusetts man is facing felony animal cruelty charges after a pit bull mix was found emaciated, the MSPCA said Friday. A forever home is being sought for Sophie, a 4-and-a-half-year-old dog surrendered last month by Carl Moglika Jr. of Agawam. Neighbors told Moglika’s condominium management office they could hear Sophie “being hit, and crying in pain,” the MSPCA...

A Boston woman who brought her dead dog into a local animal hospital with frostbite and emaciation this February now faces animal cruelty charges in the animal’s death, the Suffolk District Attorney said Monday. Natividad Pizzaro, 37, brought the dog in to Angell Animal Medical Center in Boston on February 2, asking for cremation services. The animal, a 6-year-old named…

A Boston man is facing animal cruelty charges after allegedly beating his dog so badly that he broke the animal’s hind leg, and local officials say this is the second case in recent weeks of alleged animal abuse. Zodus Hollis, 42, was arraigned last Friday in Boston Municipal Court on two counts of animal cruelty, Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin…

Several animal heads found in a plastic bag in East Greenwich last month appear to be related to some sort of religious animal sacrifice ritual, the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty said Tuesday. The bag, originally brought to the attention of police on Feb. 25 near a boat launch, contained a calf’s head, several rooster heads, a…

A Salisbury man who allegedly killed his neighbor’s dog and buried her appeared in court Thursday.

All three men entered not guilty pleas Thursday in court on various charges related to the shooting death of a dog in Salisbury, Massachusetts.

Three men are facing charges after one of them allegedly shot and killed a neighbor’s dog in Salisbury, Massachusetts, then buried the animal.

Three men are facing charges after one of them allegedly shot and killed a neighbor’s dog in Salisbury, Massachusetts, then buried the animal.

A Salisbury man accused of fatally shooting his neighbor’s dog and burying her has been arrested.

Three men are facing charges after one of them allegedly shot and killed a neighbor’s dog in Salisbury, Massachusetts, then buried the animal.

A woman in Salisbury, Massachusetts, wants answers after her neighbor allegedly shot and buried her dog. Emily Meattey said it happened last week after her dog got out and attacked her neighbor’s duck. Police are investigating. Meattey said her 4-year-old daughter accidentally let the family’s two dogs out near Beach Road and Dock Lane last week. After wandering into...

A woman in Salisbury wants answers after he says her neighbor shot and buried her dog.

The new year brings new laws for New Hampshire, including an abortion ban that was passed as part of the state budget. The budget Gov. Chris Sununu signed in June contained a provision prohibiting abortion after 24 weeks of gestation, with exceptions for the mother’s life or physical health. It takes effect Jan. 1, and Democrats already have drafted legislation…

A Randolph, Massachusetts, man was indicted Thursday on two counts of animal cruelty for allegedly beating a pair of Canadian geese so badly they had to be euthanized. Ernest Allen, 55, pleaded not guilty to two counts of animal cruelty at his Quincy District Court arraignment on August 2, 2021. He was released on personal recognizance. “The Randolph Police Department…

Police say a man tied up his own dog on a beach and left him to drown, but the man was rescued before the tide came in.

Elias Pacheco Osario, 27 of Revere, was arraigned in Chelsea District Court Tuesday for an animal cruelty charge. He is accused of chaining his 50 lb. pit bull mix — named “Killer” — to an exposed steel rod at the edge of Short Beach, near the waterline, on the afternoon of Aug. 29.

A man accused of abandoning his dog last month at a beach in Revere, Massachusetts, is due in court Tuesday for an animal cruelty charge.

A not-guilty plea was entered on behalf of the man accused of abandoning his dog at a beach last month in Revere, Massachusetts. Elias Pacheco Osario, 27, was arraigned in Chelsea District Court Tuesday for an animal cruelty charge. He is accused of chaining his 50 lb. pit bull mix — named “Killer” — to an exposed steel rod at…

Three dogs seized in a large-scale animal cruelty case in South Carolina have arrived in Massachusetts and will soon need homes. The dogs — two beagles and a hound mix — were part of a group of 20 dogs sent to the Northeastern Animal Shelter and MSPCA-Angell from the Charleston Animal Society in South Carolina. According to the groups, the…

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.