Category Archives: Animal

Fla. teacher faces dismissal over ‘cone of shame’

By doris | Published: May 11, 2012

Full Story at sfgate.com A Florida high school science teacher faces dismissal amid allegations that she used a “cone of shame” dog collar to discipline students. Pasco County schools superintendent Heather Fiorentino has recommended firing 47-year-old Laurie Bailey-Cutkomp for putting a dog collar on at least eight of her ninth graders on two days in [...]

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Mad cow disease in California: Should humans be worried?

By doris | Published: April 25, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com (CBS News) A cow’s positive test for mad cow disease has prompted health officials to alert a concerned public that humans are not at risk for contracting the deadly human variant of the disease. VIDEO: Mad cow disease discovered in Calif.New case of mad cow disease discovered in California; First since [...]

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FDA wants limits on antibiotics given to animals

By doris | Published: April 11, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration called on drug companies Wednesday to help limit the use of antibiotics given to farm animals, a decades-old practice that scientists say has contributed to a surge in dangerous, drug-resistant bacteria. Antibiotics are mixed with animal feed to help livestock, pigs and chickens put [...]

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Vegans bash Starbucks for beetle coloring in frappuccinos

By doris | Published: March 29, 2012

Full Story at USATODAY.com Starbucks has the vegan community seeing red over what it recently began using to color its Strawberry Frappuccinos: beetles. That’s beetles as in ground up cochineal beetles — mostly found in Mexico and South America. Gross as that may sound, it’s a common, government-approved food coloring used widely throughout the food [...]

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Girl’s best friend is dog who carries her oxygen

By doris | Published: March 21, 2012

Full Story at TODAYHealth.today.msnbc.msn.com Two years ago Aaron and Debbie Knobloch learned that their baby daughter Alida was suffering from a rare lung disease and that she would need a portable oxygen tank to help her breathe. The good news was that the oxygen tank would make their little girl healthy. The bad news was [...]

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Gutsy wrangler, huge horse save boy from charging grizzly

By doris | Published: January 14, 2012

Full Story at spodesman.com Grizzlies are high profile this year. A lingering winter and late berry crop kept bears in proximity to humans longer than normal, perhaps contributing to a stream of headlines about grizzlies killing people and people killing grizzlies. Meanwhile, a young lady on a big horse charged out of the pack of [...]

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Thousands of birds make crash landing in Utah

By doris | Published: December 14, 2011

Full Story at USNews.msnbc.msn.com Thousands of birds died on impact after apparently mistaking a Wal-Mart parking lot and other areas of southern Utah for bodies of water and plummeting to the ground in what one wildlife expert called the worst downing she’s ever seen. Crews went to work cleaning up the dead birds and rescuing [...]

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At $50,000 a pound, rhino horns being stolen from museums

By doris | Published: December 10, 2011

Full Story at WorldNews.msnbc.msn.com LONDON — The demand for rhino horn in Asia, where some see its ground-up powder as an aphrodisiac and even cancer-curing medicine, has driven prices to nearly $50,000 a pound — and with it a new type of crime: thieves breaking into museums and auction houses to tear the horns off [...]

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Yellowstone buffalo to roam again in Montana

By doris | Published: April 6, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com BILLINGS, Mont. — Bison from Yellowstone National Park will roam freely across 75,000 acres in southern Montana where for years the animals were shipped to slaughter by the hundreds, under a breakthrough agreement expected to be adopted this week. migrations. Officials say those that move beyond the newly opened habitat and [...]

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Boeing didn’t expect 737 cracks so soon

By doris | Published: April 5, 2011

! NewsFull Story at news.hoo PHOENIX – Boeing was surprised when a section of a Southwest jetliner’s fuselage ripped open in flight because the plane wasn’t old enough to be worrisome, a company official said Tuesday, as the airline cleared most of its older 737 planes to return to the skies. Southwest said it had [...]

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DOUBLE RAINBOW FOR GROUNDHOG DAY 2011

By doris | Published: February 3, 2011

Full Story at ireport.CNN I was out early in the morning on Groundhog’s Day here in Grafton, WV. Snapping some pictures of a few cloud formations that was moving in that morning at around 8:00 am. As I was clicking away on the clouds, I saw from the corner of my left eye something bright…….DOUBLE [...]

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Oldest elephant in N. America dies at 71

By doris | Published: January 19, 2011

Full Story at news.blogs.cnn.com Taj, an Asian elephant who could hold a paintbrush to create art on canvas, has died at age 71, her keepers announced. “As the oldest elephant in North America, we mourn the loss of this gentle soul who touched millions, but we also celebrate an extraordinary life,” Six Flags Discovery Kingdom [...]

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Wild horse roundup triggers controversy

By doris | Published: January 3, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Silver Springs, Nevada (CNN) — The helicopter is on the chase. At first, you can only hear it. Then, from behind the hillside, you see a herd of wild horses running for their freedom, with the helicopter close behind. One escapes the trap, barely. The crowd cheers. This is the scene [...]

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Wild horses help tame wild men

By doris | Published: December 29, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Carson City, Nevada (CNN) — Just like the men training them, these horses used to be free. The animals were free to roam the land in the West, and the men were free to come and go as they please. Now they are both captive at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center. [...]

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What’s with the donkey in the parking lot?

By doris | Published: December 25, 2010

Full Story at religion.Blog.CNN.com t was a brisk December night, and Little Bit, a pregnant Sicilian miniature donkey, was munching hay as little children poked and pet her. She looked like she could go into labor at any moment there in the parking lot, which an Alexandria, Virginia, church was using for a live nativity [...]

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MGM defends safety practices after lion attack caught on tape

By doris | Published: September 9, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — MGM Resorts defended its safety practices Wednesday after amateur video surfaced showing a lion attacking its trainer inside its habitat at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, as horrified visitors to the hotel looked on. The trainer was treated and released from the hospital after the incident earlier [...]

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Pet product company recalls nearly 75,000 bags of dog treats

By doris | Published: September 6, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A leading pet product company has issued a voluntary recall of nearly 75,000 bags of dog treats due to salmonella concerns, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The move by Hartz Mountain Corp. came after random sample testing by the FDA indicated the presence of salmonella organisms [...]

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Bear gets stuck in car, goes on brief ride

By doris | Published: July 31, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — If you think you’ve heard it all, follow this tale of a hungry black bear who went for a ride, literally. Douglas County, Colorado, Sheriff’s deputies early Friday got a call about a honking car and a commotion inside. Perhaps it was teenagers or a thief, they thought as [...]

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SeaWorld to give more details Friday in trainer’s death

By doris | Published: February 26, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Orlando, Florida (CNN) — SeaWorld has scheduled a Friday news conference to discuss an accident that left a trainer dead after she was attacked by a whale, a spokesman said. Dawn Brancheau, 40, died Wednesday from multiple injuries and drowning after a 12,000-pound whale grabbed her ponytail and pulled her underwater [...]

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