Animals
Fire destroyed 24-year-old Terisa Acevedo's apartment nearly one month ago. She was told that everything was gone, including her 2-year-old Dachshund named Lola.
The researchers found that owning and walking the dogs, increased the chances of meeting federal benchmarks on physical activity by 34%, for the dog owners. However, less than half the number of Americans are able to meet the recommended levels of physical exercise.
Dog owners who walk their dogs are 34 percent more likely than others to meet federal physical activity benchmarks, according to new research.
Graham Waspe's guide dog is not just aiding his owner to carry out everyday tasks, but also helping his previous one to get around in Stowmarket, Suffolk.
foot and a half of animal feces... took officials more than two hours to wade through the muck in the living room and upstairs before they could say they'd found all the living animals --- more than 18 mixed-breed dogs... freezer full of about 15 carcasses... Neighbors have watched for years as the homeowner lived out of her car instead of her home.... [How do YEARS go by with "smell is unbearable in the summer"??]
On Sunday morning, an animal control officer looked into the bin and discovered that the one pup somehow survived. "He was just as healthy as could be...."
A Columbus firefighter admits that he took his two dogs to the basement, tied them up and blasted them with a rifle so he and a girlfriend could vacation without paying to board the animals. "He said chunks of concrete were flying everywhere...." 90 days in jail, pay $4,500 to cover the cost of his investigation and serve five years' probation.... [sick]
Conservation officers in Squamish, B.C., continue to hunt for two more cougars after a rash of attacks, including one in which a mother fought off an attack on her daughter, 3, who couldn't understand why the big kitty didn't want to "play nice."
"Trakr was so much a part of my life, and, you know, he was more than just my partner," Symington said. "He was my best friend and my lifelong companion. Seeing and having his legacy live on in these puppies is a tremendous gift...." actually pulled the last remaining survivor from the rubble itself...
About 3 hours later at home, Jack started exhibiting, well, strange symptoms. "His eyes were kind of glossed over, very out of touch, I mean, he didn't seem to recognize me at first.... When he was trying to walk, he was looking at his paw, and then looking at the ground and then trying to get his paw to reach the ground, but was unsuccessful." Concern for Jack turned to relief when she heard the vet's diagnosis: Jack had swallowed a large amount of dried, harvested marijuana....
Horowitz was able to show that the human tendency to attribute a "guilty look" to a dog was not due to whether the dog was indeed guilty. Instead, people see 'guilt' in a dog's body language when they believe the dog has done something it shouldn't have — even if the dog is in fact completely innocent of any offense.
The five-year-old Great Pyrenees is credited with saving the lives of Moss and her son David, 19, by alerting them to an early morning fire.... Smelling smoke and hearing the crackle of fire, mother and son fled the house around 6 a.m. with Jeter following. For an unknown reason, the 120-pound dog went back into the house and perished.... "He'd had such a tough time. He'd been starved, beaten and abused," Glenda Moss said, sobbing as friends and neighbors stopped by after hearing of the fire. "My dog was just amazing."
...700 feet up [picture!]
A lion that escaped from its cage in a China zoo went for a swim in a local river.
A FROG that constantly changes colour is being worshipped as a GOD in India.... "My one problem is that this frog does not appear to eat. I keep trying to feed it but it doesn't eat anything. I don't know what else to give it...."
Birds rapidly learn to identify people who have previously threatened their nests and sounded alarms and even attacked those folks, while ignoring others nearby, researchers report in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
A Tulsa groomer brings the salon to your pet.
About 3,000 of the migratory bird have settled in a two-acre area near a grocery store, restaurants and medical facilities... protected under the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act..
The half-sized cows barely reached Kenny's waist. The ranch's border collie stared eye-to-eye with wandering calves. "Aren't they sweet?"
The coconut crab (Birgus latro) is a type of land hermit crab with a spectacular appearance and intriguing biology. Able to grow to relatively gigantic proportions, the coconut crab is probably the largest terrestrial arthropod in the world. Indeed, Charles Darwin described the coconut crab as "monstruous" when he encountered it on the Keeling Islands during the voyage of the Beagle
The coconut crab, Birgus latro, is the largest land-living arthropod in the world, and is probably at the upper size limit of terrestrial animals with exoskeletons in today's atmosphere. It is also known as the robber crab or palm thief, because some coconut crabs are rumored to steal shiny items such as pots and silverware from houses and tents.
A British tourist was recovering last night after being stung more than 500 times when a swarm of bees attacked visitors to an art gallery in France.
A Connecticut prosecutor says test results show a chimpanzee that mauled a woman had the anti-anxiety drug Xanax in its system. ... unclear if the drug played a role in the attack. ...
Periodical cicadas, insects best known for their 17-year long life cycle, are emerging four years early in several Atlantic states
The notion that a decline in pollinators may threaten the human food supply — producing a situation that has been referred to as a "pollination crisis" — can be considered a myth, at least where honey bees are concerned....
A grieving pet owner says a Catoosa police officer cruelly killed her dog. The two-year-old Boxer was shot after police say she lunged at the officer [News video]
Bartlesville Police Department officers shot and killed a pit bull dog Wednesday after it reportedly attacked several children before turning on officers.
sometimes the delicate balance is tipped toward one partner or the other. ... When Nodosa begins to flower, the ants attack the buds, lopping them off before they get a chance to spread seeds. The ant, in effect, sterilizes its gracious host. Ingrates....
able to send half of their brains to sleep while the other half remains conscious. What is more, the mammals seem to be able to remain continually vigilant for sounds for days on end.... when the team checked the dolphins' blood for physical signs of sleep deprivation, they couldn't find any. After 5 days of unbroken vigilance the dolphins were in much better shape than the scientists.
"While we as humans might find it appealing to free a long-term captive animal," the researchers say in the paper, "the survival and well-being of the animal may be severely impacted in doing so."
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