Animal cruelty

Connecticut trappers are up in arms. Local animal rights activists are buying up exclusive trapping permits and using them to protect animals instead of ensnaring them. Trappers say the activists are allowing the populations of fur-bearing animals to grow out of control. Neal Rauch reports.

We’ve all heard stories about little old ladies who keep dozens of animals in their homes. But few studies have been done on the syndrome of animal hoarding. Now, a consortium of human and animal researchers is trying to pinpoint the causes, and perhaps a cure, for the behavior. Margaret Combs reports from Boston.

The Takeaway’s sports correspondent Ibrahim Abdul-Matin talks about Michael Vick, recently released from two years in prison for operating an unlawful interstate dog fighting ring, and also discusses the controversial comic strip ?Tank McNamara.’