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All of the images in this site were gleaned from At Our Hands, a satellite site of The Animals' Voice. At Our Hands has carefully catalogued over 5,000 images depicting every conceivable exploitation of, and cruelty toward, the animal kingdom. (Most, though not all, of these images can be viewed in color as well.) We are grateful to this organization for allowing activists all over the world to incorporate these images into their own projects without permission, as long as the images are used to combat inhumane treatment of animals.

Each of the "thumbnail" images below, as well as each image throughout this site, has some commentary affixed to it. You can view this commentary by waving your cursor over the image. Clicking on each of the images below opens a window to reveal a larger, less cropped version of the image.

At Our Hands, as well as All Creatures, comprise just two of the most comprehensive documentations of animal cruelty among dozens to be found on the Internet. The images that are reproduced here are considered to be in the public domain. However, if you recognize an image that is not, please advise us as soon as possible.


Rats have a will to freedom too; otherwise, why the laboratory stock? Many shelter dogs end up in predicaments such as this. The right to liberty is appreciated by species of nearly all kinds. The intensive rearing of chickens is at some remove from the ideal of the 'family barnyard.'
This is the lot of bears who are farmed for their bile production. A young chick has her beak cut off with a searing-hot blade. A circus elephant topples as he struggles to free himself from his shackles. Unlike their human counterparts, prisoners in circuses cannot be subject to moral reprobation.
On the other hand, is eating cows and pigs any more justified? The 'harvesting' of horses for meat and other 'resources' is not pretty. The government fails to cover up wild horse killings. The battery cages found in rabbit farms are not unlike those used in poultry 'warehouses.'
The cowardly avarice of Canadian seal hunting speaks for itself. A mother seal holds vigil over her slaughtered calf. In the slaughterhouse, no animal dies with dignity. Unborn calves from disemboweled cows lie bleeding on the slaughterhouse floor.
This is what virtually every chicken in America experiences in the final moments of her life. '...In relation to [the animals], all people are Nazis. For the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka.' - Isaac Bashevis Singer The trapped animal is regarded as a resource, or a pest--or simply an unfortunate bystander. Even if you're vegetarian, if you consume dairy products, you may as well eat veal.
These rabbits will soon have toxic chemicals poured into their eyes. Odds are this bizarre 'research' was precipitated by an equally bizarre push for grant money. Laboratory animals who are mutilated to this extent are quickly disposed of thereafter. Circus animals, like human slaves, were not born with shackles on their legs.
The pelts of dogs who have been skinned for meat production. Ritual blowtorching of live dogs in certain Korean subcultures. The reason? To 'enhance the aphrodisiac qualities of the dog's flesh.' So as not to spill blood on the pelts, fur farmers kill their victims by gassing them, or by electrocuting them anally. What people DON'T think about when they don fur garments.
For every animal raised for fur, death comes almost as a consolation. A laboratory monkey receives an injection in the eye for God-knows-what-purpose. A harpooned and trammeled whale bleeds profusely into the ocean. A cow is branded on the cheek with a flaming iron.
A young bull is castrated and de-horned at the same time. A piglet is castrated without anesthesia. Animals raised as 'commodities' are almost always inseminated artificially; natural reproduction is not 'efficient.' A rat is tied down, then dissected.
If humans can treat their fellow primates so barbarously, can barbarous treatment of their fellow humans be far behind? This rhinoceros has been de-horned, butchered, and dismembered by poachers. This elephant was nearly decapitated by poachers. This image depicts a mass slaughter of pilot whales.
Pregnant sows are confined to 'gestation stalls' barely larger than the animals themselves. Nursing sows are moved to so-called 'farrowing crates' to suckle their young. More evidence that sows are objectified by agriculturists as 'breeding machines' and 'sausage factories.' Dead cows lie prostrate in a deep pool of blood on the slaughterhouse floor.
The 'incidental causes' from which many farmed animals have died are not mere happenstances of nature. The remains of numerous slaughtered animals will likely be rendered into pet foods--or fed to their farmed brethren. Cows and pigs are hoisted by their hind legs, and their throats are slashed, their blood draining into large pails. The severed heads of cattle are processed 'assembly-line' style.
What's the point of it all, if the corpse of the hunted fox is left to rot in the wilderness? You can be sure these hunting dogs did not die of natural causes. In greyhound racing, the dogs who don't race fast enough are killed en masse and trashed. 'Hunting is not a sport; in a sport, the contestants must know they're in the game.' - Paul Rodriguez
'Useless' male chicks are discarded by the hundreds of thousands into dumpsters, where they slowly suffocate. These chicks will not survive for long in the dumpster. There is no justification--moral, aesthetic, nutritional, economic, or otherwise--for eating pâté de foie gras. Ducks and geese raised for pâté de foie gras suffer unspeakable confinement and gastric distress.
Dairy cows frequently develop mastitis, a grotesque inflammation and infection of the udder. This ermine has his entire lower body caught in a 'Conibear' body-hold trap. Even snakes and other reptiles fall victim to bizarre laboratory experiments of dubious utility. A dog is gassed in an experiment simulating a terrorist attack.
Cats and monkeys sometimes have their eyes sewn shut in experiments to simulate blindness. After experiments involving radical chest surgeries, these dogs are killed and trashed. As this image clearly demonstrates, testing chemical products on the skin of an animal can have highly injurious consequences. This monkey has suffered cranial excision and implants placed directly in his brain tissue.
His head and jaws locked in a vise, a laboratory rat has a scalpel pressed into his head. A fox is anally electrocuted on a fur farm. The skinned remnants of an animal farmed for fur. '...Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough. Whether we exploit animals to eat, to wear, to entertain us, or to learn, the truth of animal rights requires empty cages, not larger cages.' - Tom Regan
A laboratory monkey struggles to break free of this neck restraint. A stallion is wrestled to the ground in a government roundup of wild horses. Pregnant mares are painfully harnessed to collect urine for estrogen used in menopausal medication for women; their foals are sold to slaughter. When carriage horses are thrust onto modern public highways, the consequences can be disastrous.
In China, dogs are atavistically butchered right on the streets. In Western societies people can be prosecuted for this, although these same societies smile benignly upon the butchering of horses. Would any other species set fire to one of his own, or another species, just for the thrill of watching, and hearing, the animal burn to death? When animals are 'euthanized' as part of a program of 'animal control,' it's not euthanasia at all. It's killing.