It looked like an urban rodeo on the streets of New York City.
Police say a young bull made a dash for freedom through the streets of Queens on Wednesday night but suddenly died before he could be taken to an animal sanctuary.
Police cars tried to steer the bull off the crowded roadways but the several-hundred-pound [...]
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What do you get when you put a few Hollywood celebs on a farm with a bunch of rescued animals? No, this isn’t the beginning to some sort of corny joke Uncle Steve might tell at Christmas dinner, it’s the introduction to my piece about the Animal Acres Gala!
Animal Acres is one of the leading [...]
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When you think of an animal sanctuary, the Arabian desert is probably not the first location that comes to mind. But Ronel Smuts runs such a place in the United Arab Emirates. Times staff writer Jeffrey Fleishman reports:
Life can be tough on the edge of a desert emirate where sand stings and the sun [...]
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Moe, a 42-year-old chimpanzee who grew up in suburbia until being forced to live in an animal sanctuary, was believed to be at large in a Southern California forest today after escaping from his cage.
Animal handlers were combing the San Bernardino National Forest about 50 miles east of Los Angeles.
“We think he may be hunkered [...]
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There’s a chimp on the loose in San Bernardino County.
County animal control staff and volunteers were fanning out Saturday across a densely forested area near the town of Devore in search of Moe the chimpanzee.
A friend of Moe’s owners says the chimp escaped Friday from his cage at an animal sanctuary near the [...]
R.J., a baby bobcat, is as cute as a kitten. But that’s part of the problem. The animal, who was found by a trucker on the side of a road, has become so friendly with humans that he can never return to the wild.
The bobcat is the newest resident of Lions, Tigers & Bears, [...]
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They are both amputees: She lost part of her right leg to bone cancer at the age of 10, and he lost part of his left leg four months ago because of an injury he most likely suffered at a Brooklyn slaughterhouse.
Her name is Jenny Brown, and she is a 36-year-old television producer turned animal [...]
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