It will soon be a crime to pierce or tattoo your companion animal anywhere in the state ... kittens and selling them on the Internet as “gothic.” Rosenthal’s bill was introduced soon ...

Animal advocates hope people will move to having pets “microchipped” instead. Last year, a North Carolina man came under fire for putting tattoos on his two dogs. Ernesto Rodriguez ...

The woman accused of turning three helpless kittens into 'gothic cats' by piercing them up to 10 times went on trial in the U.S. yesterday, charged with animal cruelty. Dog groomer Holly Crawford ...

has been convicted of animal cruelty. Crawford, a dog groomer by trade, had been marketing so-called ‘gothic kittens’ -- with piercings in their ears and necks -- for sale on the Internet ...

A jury took about five hours to convict Holly Crawford of one count of animal cruelty ... their tails and put them up for auction online as Gothic kittens, activists said. The verdict capped ...