(WIDK By Mike Finiello) - Two men are arrested for needlessly killing over 500 sharks.

Rick Nguyen, 37, Louisiana, and Hung Anh Tiet, 29, Texas, were arrested Sunday by The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division when they were found with 11 whole sharks and over 2,000 shark fins in their fishing boat.
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(WIDK By Mike Finiello) - An unprecedented ivory poaching spike leaves behind a horrific trail of dead.

A massive slaughter in Cameroon, Central Africa – at least 200 elephants have been killed in a four week killing spree, some estimates fearing that over a thousand elephants may have been killed since January due to a surge in ivory poaching.
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(WIDK By AnnaMarie Houlis) – A man who abandoned a litter of puppies and their mother did not make the smartest move.

A suitcase zipped up with six English bulldog puppies and their mother was picked up on April 4 by the Lucas County Dog Warden’s office; tags with the contact information for Howard Davis were still on the luggage.
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(WIDK By AnnaMarie Houlis) - This pit bull has lived up to his breed’s tenacious reputation.

On March 29th, animal rescue workers found a 3-year-old pit pull named Elijah in rural Nebraska, still alive four days since he had been shot twice—once in the hind quarters and once between his shoulders.
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(WIDK By AnnaMarie Houlis) - Drug users pay for their expenses somehow, but whoever deemed of impersonating a veterinarian?

In Akron, Ohio, 35-year-old Brandi A. Tomko appeared before the Summit County Commons Pleas Court to ask for a reduction in her bail, after being charged with animal cruelty, identity fraud and practicing at C&D Animal Hospital devoid of a license, though her request was denied.
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(WIDK By Max McKeon) - The whale shark was captured in a fisherman’s net, and was not released for several hours.

The town of Boljoon located inside the Philippines tied up a whale shark for over two hours to allow a young girl, Carinn Lestolis, surf on top of the enslaved fish.
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(WIDK by Meggan Gittens) - Heroes can be found everywhere you look.

After several raids in the Philippines, vet and animal welfare officers rescued nearly 300 pit bulls from a dog-fighting ring hidden deep inside a local forest.
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(WIDK By Olivia Roat) - A Florida man faces jail time after killing his family’s three pet bunnies with his own bare hands.

35-year-old Reginald Owen Sear, Jr., from Winter Haven, Florida, was sentenced to two years in prison after he went to the bathroom and twisted the bunnies to death in his hands after arguing with his wife about who would wake up and feed them.
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(WIDK By AnnaMarie Houlis) - Some people use fake grass carpets and some use water spray bottles to train their dogs to go outside; this man killed his, instead.

76-year-old Michael Stolz of Lewisville, Texas is being held on $250,000 bond on a murder charge for killing his dog after it defecated inside his home, and then his wife, Bernice M. Stolz, 49, for getting upset and yelling.
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(WIDK By Lukasz Bielawski) – Heated arguments tend to bring out the worst in people.

Kendria Monique Dexter, 20, will be facing charges of animal cruelty, after tossing a 9-month-old puppy out a 3rd story window during a heated argument with her roommate. Click to read more…
(WIDK by Colleen Bjornholm) - Someone was inspired by The Godfather.

Darrell Mowat, a 28 -year-old volunteer farmhand in Niagra Falls, Canada, killed his boss’s horse and left its head in the back of a pickup truck parked in an acquaintance’s driveway last week.
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(WIDK By Hannah Tool) - A man was arrested for the repeated molestation of an 11-year-old girl, and later admitted to sexually violating a dog, as well.

29-year-old Matthew Curnter was detained in Salisbury, NC after confessing to a detective that he had been molesting the young girl for months, and having frequent sex with the household dog, a pitbull-chow mix. Click to read more…
(WIDK By Andrew Kepshire) - He found out man’s best friend isn’t always his drinking buddy.

Todd Harold Schrier, 49, of East Helena, Montana was charged with animal cruelty after getting his 20-pound Pomeranian intoxicated to four-times the legal limit.
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(WIDK By Olivia Roat) - Half of the elephant population on an African reserve was killed by poachers.

In one of the worst massacres in decades, 200 elephants on the Bouba N’Djida reserve in the Central African state of Cameroon have been slaughtered since January by poachers from Chad and the Sudan.
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(WIDK by Patrick Heywood) - Photos were released of Donald Trump’s sons on an exotic hunting trip.

Donald Trump Jr., 34, and Eric Trump, 28, are taking criticism for surfaced photos of them posed proudly with carcasses of wild African animals. Click to read more…
(WIDK by Patrick Heywood) - A Missouri man is sentenced to prison for inexcusable animal abuse.

Steven Brunello, 53, of Jefferson County, Missouri, was sentenced to 40 days in jail for strangling a dog to death with a hockey stick.
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