Archive for February, 2008
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
The Sun, 14 Feb 2008
ROME (Feb 13, 2008): Animal-rights activists are distributing a video to denounce what they say is the cruelty with which tens of thousands of horses are brought to Italy each year where they are slaughtered for their meat.
The video documents truck journeys - lasting up to 46 hours - of groups [...]
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
The Star, 9 Feb 2008
SINGAPORE (AP): Ah Meng, an orangutan who met celebrities and starred as a poster girl for Singapore’s tourism campaign, has died of old age, the city-state’s zoo said. She was about 48.
Singapore Zoo said in a statement it would hold a memorial for Ah Meng on Sunday. She died Friday.
Alagappasamy Chellaiyah, [...]
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
The Sun, 6 Feb 2008
Nuremberg (Feb 05, 2008): A polar-bear cub which is being groomed for stardom this spring at a German zoo will be given a spacious pen formerly inhabited by a disgraced older female, the city of Nuremberg said Monday.
Flocke (pronounced to rhyme with soccer) was rescued from her own mother last month [...]
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Like any other pet, dogs, if not properly cared for and maintained, can get diseases. Here are some parasites that cause dog diseases.
- Heartworm. Mosquito bites cause heartworm to exist in a dog and will reside in your pet’s heart and nearby blood vessels. A dog infected by heartworms looks dull and may even have [...]
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Saturday, February 9th, 2008
I feel so pity about the dogs… well sometimes people or animals keeper didn’t really know what they are doing…
here is the news:
By Katy Wheeler
This family has been banned from keeping animals for 10 years after allowing their pets to become walking skeletons.
The Gray family, from Peterlee, fed three dogs so little food that their [...]
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
NST, 5 Feb 2008
ALOR GAJAH: A duck that refuses to die after having its throat slit twice has become the talk of Masjid Tanah here.
Bahari Ali, 44, said he slit its throat about 7.45am on Sunday, but found it alive hours later.
The poultry farmer said the duck’s throat had nearly been severed, but it was [...]
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Bernama, 4 Feb 2008
NANCHANG, Feb 4 (Bernama) — A South China tiger cub in an east China zoo has regained its eyesight after what is believed to be the first ever cataract removal surgery on the critically-endangered big cat species, Xinhua news agency reported Monday.
The tiger, which is a year old on Friday, had the [...]
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
NST, 2 Feb 2008
SETBO VILLAGE (Cambodia): Being responsible parents, rice farmer Khuorn Sam Ol and his wife might not be expected to be keen on having their child play with a 5m-long, 100kg snake.
Yet they are unflustered that their 7-year-old son, Uorn Sambath, regularly sleeps in the massive coil of a female python, rides the [...]
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
The Star, 2 Feb 2008
OSLO (Reuters) - A new type of shrew-like creature with a snout similar to an elephant’s trunk has been found in the mountains of Tanzania, the first new species of the mammal found since the 19th century, scientists said.
The creature, a type of elephant shrew to be named the grey-faced sengi, [...]
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