Two New Jersey high school students have been arrested for animal cruelty after allegedly luring a family of geese into the street, running them over and uploading footage of the crime to Snapchat, NBC New York reports.

A Texas man who was twice arrested in 2013 for having sex with a horse named Nadia has apparently struck again. Police say Cirilo Castillo, 45, was caught back in February in the same barn he’d been ordered to stay away from, once again attempting to violate a horse. He was arraigned this month on criminal trespassing charges.

Two Texas brothers who confessed to shooting a stranded dolphin to death with a compound bow were sentenced to one year of probation, 50 hours of community service and a shared $7,300 fine this week, KBTV reports.

Police in North Charleston, S.C., have arrested the man they believe wrapped electrical tape around the muzzle of Caitlyn the dog, a chocolate Staffordshire, and left her for several days with her tongue stuck between her teeth, unable to eat or drink.

After being shot with a steel-tipped hunting arrow, it took a dolphin recently found dead in an Alabama bayou at least five days to finally succumb to its injuries. Now investigators believe they have caught the culprit, an unnamed juvenile.

Look, kids. If you're going to do something that is morally reprehensible (not to mention illegal) maybe don't film it?

Two Florida teens are under investigation for repeatedly lighting an endangered gopher tortoise on fire, fatally stomping it to death as it cowered inside its shell, and then posting videos of the torture on Facebook.

Two police officers in Baltimore have been suspended after authorities say they slit the throat of a Shar-Pei that had broken free from her owner's backyard and that had reportedly bitten a stranger. The dog, Nala, was seven years old.

A South Carolina man who was unwilling to walk his father's dog because it was raining outside thought he had come up with an acceptable solution: Using the dog's leash to dangle it from his second-story balcony.

An animal rights activist who spent the summer working undercover at a cattle ranch suspected of mistreating its animals has been charged with animal cruelty after blowing the whistle on the operation because it took her too long to report the abuse.

The remains of a woman who spent decades abusing animals were found inside her western Kentucky home earlier this month. Authorities believe the parts of her body not found had been consumed by her pet wolfdogs.

Tourists who stumbled onto a gravely injured dolphin while swimming off the coast of Sanya City in the Chinese province of Hainan are being blasted on local social networks for manhandling the distressed animal and posing with it for pictures in lieu of alerting wildlife authorities.

Authorities in New York state's Putnam County area believe there's a "serial cat killer" at large. Earlier this week, a seven-month-old feline named Blackfoot died in the Westchester Animal Hospital, after the brown-and-black Calico was found beaten and shot in the spine. A mile away from the site of Blackfoot's shooting, a cat head was found last August.

Welcome to a magical land full of promise, "bluffs, sinkholes and other 'death traps.'" Whether you know it as Middle Earth or New Zealand, it is a very dangerous place to be if you are a four-legged friend.

In an attempt to erase the phrase "dying with dignity" from our collective memory, two of America's most embarrassing states have recently subjected innocent citizens to the kind of death traditionally reserved for the girlfriends of comic book characters.

Rabbits: adorable, fluffy, prone to dying. Seriously, these little guys can have actual heart attacks at the sound of a balloon popping.

Do not keep a monkey as a pet.

A homeless man has been charged with animal cruelty after he killed a pelican with his bare hands.

Operations at a Central California slaughterhouse have been suspended indefinitely after an animal welfare group forwarded a video to officials at the United States Department of Agriculture which they claim shows cattle being treated inhumanely at the meat processing plant.

At the Denver Zoo, a bluffing big shot relies on the protection of Plexiglas to stare down an increasingly unhappy lion.