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Rugby star Keiron Cunningham has rubbed animal activists the wrong way after starring in a video killing a deer.

A gruesome picture of Keiron holding the animal he shot can be found at The Sun.

It didn’t help his image that during the show that aired on the Field Sports Channel website, Keiron exclaimed, “It’s ten times better than scoring at Wembley,” after killing the animal.

A spokesman for A League Against Cruel Sports said, “It is sad a respected sportsman uses his public profile to promote killing animals for sport. It is disturbing someone can get such enjoyment taking pot shots at wildlife.”

Keiron responded to criticism by professing his love for the “sport,” saying he grew up snaring rabbits and was “always shooting things,” and cited the high he got from doing so.

Even seemingly non animal rights commenters on the article at The Sun found this hard to swallow.

As one reader said, “To me it’s not about actually killing the deer it’s the fact that he’s glamourising it, i don’t really want to know that he get’s more pleasure out of killing an innocent animal than when he plays Rugby.”

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Mark Indelicato took to Twitter to express his feelings for circuses.

The Ugly Betty actor was moved by Olivia Munn‘s recent PETA ad protesting the use of elephants in the entertainment industry.

“Olivia Munn For Peta. I will NEVER go to the circus again. This has me in tears right now.”

“Stop animal abuse! We cannot just sit around and watch poor, innocent animals get harmed and tortured only for the entertainment of human.”

“And to think that even the CIRCUS, which is supposed to be so happy and joyful could do such a thing. Boycott places and things like this.”

“Thinking of writing a letter to the Wringling Brothers Circus to tell them what horrible, cruel, sick human beings they are.”

Meyer Glitzenstein & Crystal, a public interest law firm that created the Wildlife Advocacy Project, represents four animal interest groups–ASPCA, Animal Welfare Institute, Animal Protection Institute, Fund for Animals–and a former Ringling Brothers employee in a suit against Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey that alleges the entertainment group’s beating of elephants with bull hooks and keeping them chained constituted unlawful “take” of the endangered animals under the Endangered Species Act.

According to a site dedicated to the trial on behalf of Ringling Brothers, a judge granted a partial summary to Ringling Brothers, narrowing the case down to six elephants and ruling none of the Asian elephants born in the United States were subject to the law.

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Jockey Liam Hollins The Favorite To Brutally Whip Horse To Kentucky Derby Win

The Kentucky Derby ends today, much to the relief of animal lovers everywhere that know many horses don’t make it through the race uninjured–or alive.

The Onion has provided a little satire to the situtation, as news anchors provide commentary on the champion “Horse beaters,” and the techniques they use to make horses race faster in a sport where “there are no rules.”

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Pamela Anderson says seals are being killed, but no one’s buying.

In a letter to the Canadian Ambassador to the U.S., Gary Doer, Pamela questions the continuation of the annual seal hunt despite signs the market is declining.

She then questions if the government is subsidizing hunters.

“Why it is that sealers in Québec were forced to throw their pelts overboard because of the lack of markets, while in Newfoundland, a certain processor is seemingly able to find people willing to pay double last year’s value of a pelt?”

“Given sealing-industry insiders’ reports of a negative market outlook for this year and given the accounts claiming that some processors have two to three years of pelts stockpiled that they cannot get rid of, who or where is the market for the 65,000 seals who have been killed this year.”

According to PETA, Pamela made the effort to personally hand deliver the letter with her questions to Mr. Doer.

Canada’s seal hunt ended early this year, a combination of both reduced demand and low harvest.

According to Harpseals, Larry Yetman, fisheries resource management officer for the Newfoundland and Labrador coastal region, pretty much confirmed Pamela’s statements regarding the demand for pelts.

Although pelt prices were selling for nearly double compared to last year’s–at $21–fisherman knew their efforts to collect would not be profitable, as the number of ships that launched from Newfoundland’s ports was down by 500.

“Every sealer in Newfoundland would have considered going out on the ice for that price, but there aren’t any buyers,” Yetman said.

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Tippi Hedren, founder of the sanctuary to 61 lions, tigers and other big cats, was recently on “The View From The Bay” to discuss the Shambala Preserve for cats and animal rights.

Tippi lives on the site of the sanctuary, and although tours are given once a month for a small donation, Tippi insists the animals aren’t there just to be watched and entertain, but it’s there “home.”

“I, along with millions of people are fascinated by the exotic feline,” the mother of actress Melanie Griffith says.

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A Humane Society of the United States representative was set to question Domino’s Pizza this week at a shareholder’s meeting on the restaurant’s use of pork sourced from farmers who keep pigs in gestation crates, small enclosures where pregnant female pigs are kept.

Kristine Middleton, corporate outreach manager for the HSUS, was scheduled to address executives at a meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Middleton said that seven states, including Domino’s headquarters of Michigan, have made it illegal to keep pigs in crates.

According to Pizza Market Place, many fast food companies such such as Chipotle, Burger King and Panera are all phasing in the use of gestation crate free pork.

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True Blood actress Kristin Bauer made her tail for the whales when she attended a rally in Washington, D.C., urging United States president Barack Obama not to overturn a ban on commercial whaling.

The signature hand gesture was created by the International Fund for Animal Welfare’s Tails for Whales campaign.

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Holly Madison "Adopt Don't Shop PSA for Last Chance For Animals

Holly Madison is one of several celebrities to star in a series of PSAs about animal welfare issues for the group Last Chance For Animals.

Holly’s “Adopt Don’t Shop” ad is one of several featured by LCA, joined by similar PSAs from celebrities like Pamela Anderson, Jillian Michaels, “Mini Me” Verne Troyer and others on fur, adoption, horses and dog fighting, to name a few.

All PSAs are available to download from the group’s website and new PSAs will be created each month and may be seen in various advertising mediums, such as billboards.

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