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PETCO Pet Food Seized by Feds
U.S. marshals have seized pet food stored in unsanitary conditions at a suburban Chicago PETCO warehouse which supplied pet food to stores in 16 states. The PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc. warehouse at...
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Puppy Tossing David Motari Expelled from Marine Corps
Remember this fellow? The clean-cut young man is actually Lance Cpl. David Motari, 22, who is being expelled from the Marine Corps for hurling a puppy to its death from a cliff in the vicinity of...
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Gorilla Grieves over Her Baby’s Death
People don’t usually think of animals as experiencing emotions. But 11-year-old gorilla Gana, who lives at the Allwetter Zoo in Muenster in northern Germany, was inconsolable this week when her...
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Bonnie Grace Finds a Home
We were recently intrigued by a Craigslist ad in which someone sought to adopt a rescue dog. Curious to see how the adventure turned out, we replied to the ad and met Jennifer Harris, a special...
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How to Repair a Broken Butterfly Wing
We’re fortunate to live along a monarch butterfly migration path. Every fall, thousands of them flutter through our backyard, headed south for the winter. We always thought that a butterfly with a...
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Tiny Primate, Thought Extinct, Found in Indonesia
Have you seen the Furby-like animal captured this summer in Indonesia? The pygmy tarsier is among the rarest of the tarsier species in Asia and the Pacific. In fact, many primatologists had written...
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Sammy the Cat Now Unemployed in Notasulga, Alabama
Controversy has erupted in the tiny town of Notasulga, Alabama. (Big Word Alert for the reader who complained that some of the words we use are “too big.”) It seems that sleepy Notasulga harbors an...
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The Dyed Dog Days of China
The Chinese economy must be doing well, based on these examples of what people are doing with their discretionary income in Wuhan, in the Hubei province. Money spent on pets in China has increased...
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Burned Dog Faces Torturers in Court over Animal Cruelty Charges
A horribly burned and disfigured young dog, Mambo, will have a rare opportunity to face his alleged tormentors in open court in December. Set on fire and left for dead on August 10 in the small French...
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Giant Panda Baby Born in China
A giant panda “baby boom” is underway in China for the endangered species, with two sets of twins arriving: one set in late July and the other set this past week. First-time mother Shuixiu — or Ju Xiao...
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