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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Can-do with zoo poo
Endangered feces' to become rich compost

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...

Doe in Schuylkill County has rare ability to be a foster parent
They call her Momma. And she's a deer.

More significantly, she is a lifesaver for about six orphaned fawns at Red Creek Wildlife Center, a wildlife rehabilitation facility on three acres in Wayne Township, Schuylkill...

Don't dump fast-growing pacu in waterways
Erie fisherman catches 20-incher in Presque Isle Bay

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.

Fur and feathers fly as San Francisco weighs ban on pet sales
SAN FRANCISCO - Here in the land of animal companions and their faithful guardians - do not call them pets and owners - a battle is raging over just what it means to be creature-friendly.

In true San Francisco fashion, city...

Animal aptitude earns student a trip to multistate FFA event
July 28--Samantha McKinney had to memorize the difference between about 140 breeds of dogs.

For her, retrievers were the trickiest.

"So many of them look alike," said McKinney, a 17-year-old from Rebersburg, who...

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...

Defendant in pet goat killing in York County approved for ARD
One of four people who stole a pet goat named Smokey and hurled him off a 50-foot bridge to his death has avoided conviction and a criminal record.

Jason Joel Barnett, 20, of 62 E. Main St. in Windsor, appeared June 29, 2010 before...

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...

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...

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,...

Brief bear encounter
'I hope he just keeps on walking'

Not the best souvenir: Couple takes found seal pup back to hotel
SEATTLE - The young couple, on an oceanside vacation at Westport, just couldn't leave the harbor-seal pup to fend for himself.

He was so alone on that beach by the lighthouse.

So helpless-looking, with no mom in...

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