Tag Archives : Pets & Animals
Dog shows up 1,000 miles away in Illinois
RACINE, Wis. – A Maltese dog named Max is headed home to Florida after he was spotted in Chicago — 1,000 miles from where he vanished.
Richard Gonzalez had reported a pet theft after Max disappeared several months ago from his daughter’s yard in Brandon, Fla.
Gonzalez says he thought that Max [...]
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Happy Birthday to the Goose Thief
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Police in Taiwan served a lonely man cake and sang happy birthday after arresting him for stealing a goose to celebrate on his own, an officer in charge said on Friday.
Police in the southern township of Neipu treated the 49-year-old suspect, surnamed Lee, on Thursday after they [...]
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Cheetahs get loose on plane
ATLANTA – A Delta baggage worker got a bit of a fright before Halloween when she opened a jetliner’s cargo door and found a cheetah running loose amid the luggage. Two cheetahs were being flown in the cargo area of a Boeing 757 passenger flight from Portland, Ore., to Atlanta on Thursday when [...]
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Feisty puppy scares off 3 bears in NJ back yard
If only Goldilocks had a cockapoo.
A 15-pound cocker spaniel-poodle mix named Pawlee scared off a mother bear and her two cubs Sunday morning after they strayed into his owners’ back yard.
Whether his bark was worse than his bite, Pawlee’s tactic worked just fine. These three bears got the [...]
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Charge dismissed in case of dog registered to vote
A judge has decided that a suburban Seattle woman who registered her Australian shepherd-terrier mix to vote has spent enough time in the legal doghouse.
Jane Balogh (BAY’-loh) had been charged with making a false statement but entered into a plea agreement last year. A King County judge dismissed [...]
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Pigeon in custody for smuggling drugs to Bosnian prisoners
Bosnian police have impounded a pigeon after discovering prisoners used it to smuggle drugs into one of the country’s highest security jails, an official said Thursday.
“The guards suspected the animal might be involved in drug smuggling once they noticed four prisoners visibly intoxicated [...]
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Scotland declares war on urban seagulls
The Scottish government has declared war on increasingly aggressive urban seagulls.
The initial battle will be joined in the southwestern town of Dumfries during next spring’s breeding season when a special anti-gull “task force” will seek to destroy nests and drive out the birds.
“Seagulls [...]
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Florida deputies Taser Plop-Plop the unruly emu
Bay County Sheriff’s deputies were forced to use a Taser to subdue an escaped emu named Plop-Plop. The large female bird escaped from a farm last weekend and on Monday, she holed up with some horses and goats in a pen.
When deputies arrived, the emu “went kind of crazy,” said Sheriff’s [...]
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Australian military offers to help save baby whale
Australia’s military offered on Thursday to help save a baby whale abandoned by its mother in a bay north of Sydney as wildlife experts fought to stave off its starvation within days.
The humpback whale, nicknamed “Colin” by Australian media, was found attempting to suckle off a moored [...]
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Angel the dog credited with saving kitten
You’ve heard of man bites dog. What about, dog saves cats? A two-year-old dog that had been turned over to the Nevada Humane Society’s shelter in Reno is being credited with rescuing six abandoned kittens.
Shelter Director Diane Blankenburg said it happened Monday while the two-year-old Boxer/Pit [...]
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Giraffe help camels and zebras escape
Amsterdam police say 15 camels, two zebras and an undetermined number of llamas and potbellied swine briefly escaped from a traveling Dutch circus after a giraffe kicked a hole in their cage.
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Rattlesnake in a Vodka Bottle
A rattlesnake rancher who calls himself Bayou Bob found a new way to make money: Stick a rattler inside a bottle of vodka and market the concoction as an “ancient Asian elixir.” But Bayou Bob Popplewell’s bright idea appears to have landed him on the wrong side of the law, because he [...]
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Horse (Stallion) Gives Hospital Visit
The man thought the patient would enjoy seeing his stallion, said Lani Yukimura, a spokeswoman at the hospital. He and the horse entered the hospital earlier this month and rode an elevator up to the third floor, where they were met and stopped by security personnel,
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Parrot imitates fire alarm, saves family
A noisy parrot that likes to imitate sounds helped save a man and his son from a house fire by mocking a smoke alarm, the bird’s owner says.
Shannon Conwell, 33, said he and his 9-year-old son fell asleep on the couch while watching a movie. They awoke about 3 a.m. Friday to find their home on [...]
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Woman jailed for 50 days over cat urine
Cynthia Hunter spent almost two months in jail over a vial of cat urine. Hunter, 38, was arrested Aug. 15 on a charge of petty theft after she was accused of stealing from a Wal-Mart store.
Deputies added charges of possession of a controlled substance after finding a vial containing a yellow substance [...]
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