You Will Not Believe What Your Pet Eats!...(Story & Video)
cbsnews.com — The dog ate my homework and that was just for starters. Shocking X-rays reveal the strange things that wind up in the stomachs of our pets, reports CBS-2's Dave Carlin. CBS 2 got the inside story. At the Dewitt Clinton Dog Run on Manhattan's West Side we met dog owners with "tails" to tell. (Submitted by bettverboten) More…
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Fire Destroys Huge Animal Collection in Brazil
treehugger.com — A fire broke out this weekend in Brazil, destroying one of the world's largest collections of snakes, spiders, and scorpions. Housed at the Butantan Institute in Sao Paulo, the collection contained roughly five hundred thousand dead specimens, which took over 100 years to amass. (Submitted by tbhurst) More…
Vet Says NY Dog Needs Viagra For Heart Condition
news.yahoo.com — A New York animal shelter is seeking donations of Viagra to treat a pit bull with a heart condition. Staff members at the Little Shelter Animal Rescue and Adoption Center in Huntington, on Long Island, say 6-year-old Ingrid needs two of the little blue pills every day or she will risk heart failure. They said a vet suggested it. (Submitted by robinbal) More…
Hunters Confront Lurking Python Threat in Everglades
aolnews.com — In recent years, the python population has exploded in South Florida, prompting state officials to hand out hunting licenses over the winter in hopes of eradicating the interlopers and restoring the delicate balance of the Everglades ecosystem. (Submitted by MacBookForMe) More…
Gorillas Suffer as Eco-Tourists Get Too Close
guardian.co.uk — Gorillas are being dangerously stressed by tourists whose attentions are disrupting the animals' feeding routines and making them aggressive. The discovery – made by researchers who have just completed a year-long study of the great apes at Bai Hokou in the Central African Republic – has important implications for the tourism industry. (Submitted by biofriendlyblog) More…
Bat species headed for extinction if fungus continues
articles.courant.com — It's the grim news that wildlife biologists have dreaded all winter: Population counts of hibernating bats show that they continue to be decimated by the disease known as white-nose syndrome, and that some species might even be threatened with extinction. (Submitted by hasai185) More…
Pit Bull on Death Row Gets Busted Out of Doggy Prison
dogblog.dogster.com — A pit bull who was scheduled to die on doggy death row by sundown Wednesday because of two biting incidents earlier this year was granted a reprieve around sunrise that very morning — by someone who cut into his cyclone-fence kennel with bolt cutters. (Submitted by kplo) More…
Run Away! World's Strongest Animal Knows How to Flee
sciencedaily.com — Barely 1 mm long, the copepod is (milligram for milligram) the world's strongest animal. It is also the world's fastest animal and the most abundant multicellular animal on the planet. What makes it so successful? Scientists say the copepod excels at escaping predators, with a jump that's hugely powerful and effective (about 1/2 meter per second.) (Submitted by weirdralph) More…
Grandma Beheads 4-Year-Old's Pet Rabbit
blogs.seattleweekly.com — Billie Jean Lehman did everything she could to warn her neighbors that their son's lionhead bunny Mustafa was going to meet a grisly end if he kept chewing through her garden. Unfortunately for the fuzzy wabbit, the neighbors didn't listen. And that's when Billie Jean got medieval on the poor little critter. (Submitted by nicoole16) More…
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