Animal Rights

How undercover animal-rights activists are winning the ag-gag war

See also: The undercover animal cruelty videos that spurred Big Ag's censorship crusade

Even a miracle may not bring Bill Lee's animals back

See also: Bill Lee, mall Santa whose animals were seized, gets two of his reindeer back

Johna Turner suspected of animal cruelty for shoving chihuahua puppy down her pants

Animal cruelty commonly includes vicious behavior like the kicking and stomping allegedly suffered by a puppy named Tater, for which Boulder's Edward McMorris was charged yesterday. But Johna Turner is suspected of animal cruelty of a very different kind. Police say she shoved a chihuahua-mix puppy ... More >>

PETA: Encourage nonviolence by putting James Holmes on vegetarian diet

In the wake of the Aurora theater shooting, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals canceled a Denver protest in deference to the victims. But now, PETA has made the tragedy the centerpiece of a new PR blitz. The organization has written a letter to the Arapahoe County Sheriff Office (see it bel ... More >>

Aurora theater shooting: PETA cancels "All Animals Have the Same Body Parts" protest

At last, some good news to come out of the horror in Aurora. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has cancelled a demonstration planned to coincide with a cattle-industry meeting tomorrow. Even PETA, which regularly uses stunts to push its agenda, realizes there are limits to bad taste for a ... More >>

PETA set to protest the circus every day it's in Denver (PHOTOS)

A small but sturdy herd of PETA activists is stomping its feet against the circus' stay in Denver. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals supporters took their grievances against Ringing Bros. & Barnum & Bailey's treatment of its elephants to the front of the coliseum this afternoon in hop ... More >>

Creature Comfort

Iggy Pop is no more dangerous than a baby seal these days

Nurse Nancy investigates The Mysterious Case of the Promiscuous Pussy

​Nurse Nancy, the alter ego of Amy Angelilli, executive director of the Rocky Mountain Alley Cat Alliance's The Feline Fix, has used plenty of unusual methods to stop kitty overpopulation, including satirical Tom Cat Condoms. Her latest gambit -- a video in which Nancy plays detective to inve ... More >>

PETA can't get its impotence billboard up in Denver

Is this PETA billboard too sexy for Denver?​People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has had a beef with Denver before, most recently when PETA's McCruelty statue planned for the 16th Street Mall was determined to violate Denver sign ordinances. This time, PETA's billboard of a sexy, saus ... More >>

Walter Bond: Radical animal-rights activist pleads guilty to burning down Sheepskin Factory

Walter Bond.​Animal activist Walter Bond is a man so devoted to his cause that he wears a giant "VEGAN" tattoo on his neck. So it's no surprise he showed zero remorse when officially pleading guilty to arson related to a fire at Glendale's Sheepskin Factory in April -- a crime for which he fa ... More >>

Celebrity Lanes is part of Denver's past and Centennial's future

Get plucked! Denver beats PETA in game of chicken over McCruelty

​After a six-month battle to place its McCruelty statue -- a giant maimed chicken -- near the McDonald's on the 16th Street Mall, a fight that involved plenty of legal squawking, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has given up on Denver. City officials should be lovin' it. The Cit ... More >>

PETA's anti-McDonald's McCruelty campaign flies the coop, and Denver should be lovin' it

​After a six-month battle to place its McCruelty statue -- a giant maimed chicken -- near the McDonald's on the 16th Street Mall, a fight that involved plenty of legal squawking and wing-flapping, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has given up on Denver. The city should be lovin' it.

John Hickenlooper asked by PETA to take mercy on Barnum & Bailey's elephants: Fat chance

​Now, in the center ring, Denver mayor John Hickenlooper is about to get a chance to show mercy to elephants -- even if, as the Democratic candidate for governor, Hickenlooper has Republicans on the run in Colorado (with a major assist from the sideshow of Tom Tancredo's candidacy).

Coleadero Rodeo: After animal deaths, PETA wants event canceled, & Jeffco commish agrees

From Channel 31 coverage.​Yesterday, we told you about the controversy over the Coleadero Rodeo, which is slated to take place at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds on Sunday even though eleven animals were hurt, and two had to be killed, following an event at the same venue on July 18. Now, Peo ... More >>

PETA flaps its legal wings and appeals Denver's ban of McCruelty

PETA, out to pluck Denver, files appeal on McCruelty

​"Not a peep," said spokeswoman Ann Williams when I asked last week if the Denver Department of Public Works had heard anything from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals after the city declared that displaying PETA's "McCruelty," a 250-pound statue of a bloodied and bandaged chicke ... More >>

PETA's ten-worst publicity stunts -- until the chicken

​The City of Denver will decide today whether PETA can install a 250-pound, bloody and butchered chicken sculpture -- dubbed "McCruelty," but really looking like a worse-for-the-wear Foghorn Leghorn -- on the 16th Street Mall. This isn't PETA's first stunt, of course. Last year, Jason Sheeh ... More >>

PETA: Denver is for (chicken) lovers

PETA"Screw you, Mayor McCheese."​ By now, you've no doubt heard that PETA wants to install a bloodied-and-bandaged 250-pound, five-and-a-half-foot chicken statue on the 16th Street Mall to protest the inhumane ways that McDonald's turns chicken-shaped chickens into Shrek-shaped Chicken McNugge ... More >>

Einstein's is liberating its chickens -- or maybe it's not

​The Einstein Noah Restaurant Group, which owns several bagel and coffee chains, including Einstein Bros, recently announced that it will start using cage-free eggs in its stores. "We're proud to be launching this initiative and believe that moving in this direction will help improve the tre ... More >>

Letters: Are humans inhumane to farm animals?

Ronald McDonald versus chickens in the ultimate cage match

​Why did the chicken cross the road? To get away from McDonald's. Ronald McDonald apparently wants his laying hens to spend their days inside a cage too small even for a waif supermodel s addicted to binging and purging her morning Egg McMuffin. The Humane Society of the United States has flo ... More >>

American Humane Certified puts the seal of approval on humane farms

How Colorado cooled the controversy between the Humane Society and big agriculture

Colorado Humane Society owners -- past Shmucks of the Week -- banned from operating a charity for a decade

"I've got a bone to chew with those people..."​People in charge of a place called the Colorado Humane Society may not seem like logical candidates for Shmuck of the Week recognition. But back in December 2008, owners executive director Mary Warren, her husband, Robert Warren, and Mary Warren's ... More >>

Ferris the dachshund is back -- and he can be yours!

Ferris' day off is over.​Yesterday, we told you about the Boulder Police Department's valiant efforts to find a dachshund puppy named Ferris, who was allegedly snatched from the Humane Society of Boulder Valley earlier this month. Mere hours after that post, according to a BPD release on view ... More >>

PETA protesters give Canadian-syrup boycott their seal of approval

Be careful: Bloody syrup will stain white fur.​I'm guessing the Canadian consulate in Denver, at 1625 Broadway, isn't a frequent location for major protests -- but that changed yesterday, when PETA representatives chose it as the place to complain about Canadian seal harvests. Their approach? ... More >>

To the shock of no one, PETA barbecues a naked woman

The National Cattlemen's Summer Convention is in town right now, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals responded in a way that only PETA could: by spray-painting a naked employee red and black and having her lie on a grill outside the downtown Sheraton, where the conference is being held ... More >>

PETA proclaims Coors Field the third most vegetarian-friendly ballpark

As if Clint Hurdle's recent dismissal by the Colorado Rockies wasn't enough to piss off rabid baseball fans, now comes word that PETA, or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has bestowed a decidedly unsettling honor on Coors Field -- you know, home of the foot-long Rockie hot dog -- naming ... More >>

Quiznos gets to the meat of the matter

It turns out that Quiznos - the carnivorous, Denver-based chain that gave us subs like the 5 Meat Stack and Prime Rib Cheesesteak, with a double-meat option - has been engaged in behind-the-scenes talks for a year with the most notorious veggie lovers of them all: PETA. (I use the term "veggie lover ... More >>

Today's Night & Day Featured Event: Marley & Me Dog Food and Blanket Drive

Most pet lovers have heard of the bestselling novel by journalist John Grogan, Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog. Hollywood couldn't wait to get its hands on the story: A mere three years after the book was published, 20th Century Fox is releasing the film version of Marley ... More >>

Marley Gives

Inside one of the nation's top carnivore sanctuaries

The Sorrow and the PETA

Bike Naked

From a bike ride to a meat-industry protest, summer finds Denver in a state of undress.

Murder Most Fowl

Cockfighting is banned in Colorado. But the feathers still fly.

I PETA the Fool

Horse Play

An animal-abuse trial ends in a surprising verdict.

Fish Story

Raising a stink over aquarium eateries.

Follow That Story

Horse Play

Best Cattery

Animal Rescue and Adoption Society

Pet Peeve

If one schnauzer is nice, what's wrong with 150?

No Kill Bill

Denver animal shelters want to let sleeping dogs lie.

Bite Me

So Foie, So Good

Consumed

A Good Egg

A Monkey Wrench

Animal-rights activists say CU researchers are worming out of a debate.

The Horse Soldier

After years of making the fur fly, a veteran animal-rights activist puts herself out to pasture.

Mouthing Off

Mouthing Off