Selling dogs and cats can be highly profitable, making them ripe for exploitation. In the UK, breeding and sale are regulated, but this isn’t the case everywhere. Some puppy and kitten dealers don’t care about the welfare of the animals they sell. They can make a fortune by shipping animals that have been bred in poor conditions overseas for sale here.

Emma Slawinski talks to The House about her new role as the CEO of the League Against Cruel Sports

The Hunting Act’s 20th anniversary highlights ongoing loopholes that enable illegal fox hunting. The League Against Cruel Sports calls for stricter laws, custodial sentences, and a timeline for change from the government

Animal suffering, environmental damage, and a serious public health risk: why MPs and peers agree it’s time to end the UK fur trade.

Animal protection NGO Cruelty Free International is urging the government to make 2025 the turning point for animal testing in the UK.

Following the success of our popular “Purr Minister competition” to find Parliament’s top cat, Battersea took our four key priorities for animal welfare, and three of our beloved canine residents, to the heart of Westminster at a reception kindly sponsored by our local MP, Marsha de Cordova.

The Leader of the House of Commons wished the UK a cruelty-free Christmas last week, in response to a question raised in Parliament by Sarah Champion – just in time for the MP and Cruelty Free International to host their Christmas reception in the Churchill Room on Wednesday afternoon.

Twenty years after the Hunting Act was introduced, and 100 years after its formation, the League Against Cruel Sports is still calling for an end to blood sports in the UK

Animal protection NGO, Cruelty Free International, is disappointed at the government’s failure to include its manifesto pledge to plan the phase-out of animal testing in the King’s Speech.

Animal protection NGO Cruelty Free International is again calling on the government to ensure proper enforcement of the law protecting animals used in experiments in the UK. The latest UK Home Office report shows that non-compliance with the law continues. Abandonment of the previous inspection programme, and roll out of a new audit approach in 2021, has not stopped failings in the care of animals in laboratories.

People are being urged to “ask questions” about where their puppies are coming from, as a new committee report highlights the increasing prevalence of unregulated canine fertility clinics and the widespread illegal trade and importation of pets.

A group of cross-party MPs have called on the government to ban the use of forced swim tests on animals, with animal rights group PETA calling the practice “outrageously crude and cruel”.

Cruelty Free International urges new Home Secretary, James Cleverly to deliver on promises that will help to move away from testing on animals. His new Department regulates the use of animals in science so Mr Cleverly now has the opportunity to help lead the UK into a cruelty-free future.

Symrise AG lose appeal against ECHA decision requiring animal testing on cosmetics ingredients

NGO also demands that animal testing for cosmetics be made illegal.

The British public’s patience is ‘up to eleven’ as the nationally backed Trophy Hunting (Import Prohibition) Bill is derailed.

I was shocked, actually, in disbelief, when I learnt that we still test on animals in the United Kingdom.

A ban on imports of hunting trophies is in sight, but the House of Lords must reject wrecking amendments for licensing HMG-approved hunting trophies.

The Government has already committed to a ban on the barbaric use of shock collars in England – so why are the country's pets still waiting for action?

Animal protection NGO Cruelty Free International is calling on the government to reinstate the 1998 ban on animal testing for cosmetics, which a High Court judge has now ruled it is able to do. Documents disclosed in the court proceedings revealed for the first time that the Home Office secretly abandoned the ban in 2019.

The Kept Animals Bill aims to address significant animal welfare issues in the country, but its progress has been delayed due to on-going national events. Now, colleagues in Parliament and organisations like the British Veterinary Association are urging the government to ensure the Bill's continuation through Parliament to improve the lives of millions of animals.

We are faced with a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reimagine the way we manage chemicals as a society. By creating a system that fully realises the benefits of non-animal testing, the government can protect us, our environment and animals in laboratories

New, hard-hitting BBC Panorama and Disclosure investigations have revealed the links between organised crime and the breeding of dogs with extreme features. In light of these investigations, the British Veterinary Association (BVA) is calling for urgent action on better enforcement and regulation of dog breeding and selling.