Animals

Animal Watch: Squirrel stunned by eviction

ALEXANDRIA, West Bellefonte and Commonwealth avenues, Oct. 23. Residents called the Animal Welfare League about a squirrel that was perched on top of a third-story window air conditioner. The squirrel didn't move despite...

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'Eating Animals,' by Jonathan Safran Foer

Eating Animals By Jonathan Safran Foer (Little, Brown; 352 pages; $25.99) In World War II, Jonathan Safran Foer's Jewish grandmother crossed Europe, barefoot and starving, one step ahead of the Nazis. A Russian farmer took pity...

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Local shelter promotes black cat adoptions

Patricia Guadalupe, wtop.com WASHINGTON - A local animal shelter wants to make Friday the 13th a lucky day for cat lovers. The Animal Welfare League of Alexandria is launching a pet adoption program this coming Friday for...

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Trust tries to use chili peppers to keep elephants away

Deaths from elephant attacks are increasing in southern Zambia and northern Botswana, where people are crammed in with a rising elephant population. A Zambia-based trust is training African farmers in four simple steps to repel...

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Meyers: Late-season hunters due a big payoff

By Charlie Meyers The Denver Post Where animals remain at higher elevations, hunters should be prepared to take the brunt of cold weather. Those who put forth the effort should have a good hunt," said Steve Yamashita, director...

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Dog thought lost to fire turns up two weeks later

LOS ANGELES — Bobby Wright thought he had buried Smoky. The U.S. Forest Service worker had watched helplessly as a frenzied, massive forest fire turned toward the trailer where he lived with Smoky, a 6-month-old mutt, 20 other...

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Neb. man incompetent for trial for animal cruelty

GENEVA, Neb. — A Davenport man has been found incompetent to stand trial on charges he neglected his horses. Fillmore County Judge Jack Ott ruled Wednesday that 66-year-old Norman Graves wouldn't be fit for trial for the...

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Illinois fire takes everything but puppy

It appears that the gift of masks specially designed for animals came to the Jacksonville Fire Department just in time. Jacksonville police and firefighters resuscitated an 8-month old Labrador retriever named Princess about...

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Animal hospice close to shutting down

Florence Thuot visits with Lilo and Skippy. (Red Huber, Orlando Sentinel / November 2, 2009) Daphne Sashin Sentinel Staff Writer DeLAND — Florence Thuot made a silent promise to the 300 handicapped and unwanted animals that...

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Riders mount challenge to horse-droppings rule

BY RICK NEALE • FLORIDA TODAY • November 8, 2009 CANAVERAL GROVES — CANAVERAL GROVES -- Their hooves clip-clopping on the asphalt and black tails swishing back and forth, Al and Goodman pull Wanetta Dyer's green-walled covered...

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