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Bear attack highlights lax Ohio exotic pet laws |
| COLUMBUS, Ohio - The bear that recently killed a caretaker in a Cleveland suburb was the latest example of animal violence in a state that has some of the nation's weakest restrictions on exotic pets and among the highest number of injuries... |
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Rocky the Kodiak bear euthanized in Pittsburgh |
| Mo Brown stepped about as close as he'd ever done before physically to his dear friend, Rocky, and planted a kiss on his head, as a veterinarian at the zoo injected a lethal dose into the brown Kodiak bear, putting the hulking, ailing popular... |
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Ohio bear owned by PETA foe kills its caretaker |
| COLUMBIA STATION, Ohio - A bear fatally mauled its caretaker during a feeding on property holding dozens of other exotic pets owned by a man who drew the wrath of activists - and lost his license to exhibit - after offering people the chance to... |
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Mother renews plea to name dingo as baby's killer |
| ADELAIDE, Australia - The mother wrongly convicted of murdering her infant after the baby infamously disappeared in the Australian Outback 30 years ago pleaded Tuesday for her daughter's death certificate to state that a dingo was... |
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Jaguar rescued from poachers stars in Brazil movie |
SAO PAULO - An endangered spotted jaguar rescued from poachers is one of the stars of a soon-to-released feature film shot in the Brazilian Amazon, officials said Thursday.
The 15-month-old jungle cat named Catarina plays the... |
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Hyena man maintains truce between human and beast |
HARAR, Ethiopia - Here in this medieval city in eastern Ethiopia, the humans and the hyenas are living in peace.
The truce began two centuries ago (or so the story goes) during a time of great famine.
There was drought... |
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Summer brings glut of unwanted, discarded rabbits |
MONTCLAIR, Calif. - Easter bunnies grow up and the novelty wears off. Come summer, people often just dump the bunnies.
That's why the number of rabbits in animal shelters across the country swells every summer.
"We... |
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Merck and Sanofi name CEO of animal medicine unit |
| TRENTON, N.J. - Merck & Co. and Sanofi-Aventis SA said Tuesday Raul Kohan will be the CEO of their planned animal health joint venture, which is expected to be the world's largest maker of pet and livestock medicines and vaccines. |
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Wildlife rules most neighborhoods |
July 06 - Bald eagles in Crescent? Foxes in Scott? Beavers on the South Side and bears in South Park?
A rash of wild animal sightings in Pittsburgh suburbs has some people worried and others wondering if there's something earthy... |
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Play moves indoors near NYC after 2 coyote attacks |
| RYE, N.Y. - The wary but tolerant relationship between humans and coyotes is changing in a New York City suburb, where two attacks on little girls have police officers shooting at the animals and parents keeping their kids inside on summer... |
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Parents recount night fox attacked their twins |
LONDON - The parents of the twin baby girls that were mauled by a fox say they found their children covered in blood after the animal crept into their upstairs cribs last month.
Pauline and Nick Koupparis told the BBC... |
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DNA evidence helps convict York County trophy-buck poacher |
| YORK -- Michael Eugene Sponseller Jr., 19, of East Berlin, Adams County, was found guilty and sentenced to pay $1,100 in fines and $5,000 in replacement costs for the unlawful poaching of a trophy-class white-tailed deer in York County,... |
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