It will be a busy week for the Animal Division at the North Carolina Zoo as 19 new animals representing 11 different species, including one never exhibited at the zoo before, arrive over the next few days.
Among the new critters expected to arrive this week are: three male red wolves from the Henson Robinson Zoo, [...]
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Our tails are wagging over plans by the University of Arizona to raise students’ awareness about the responsibilities of owning a pet. It’s a paw-sitive (Sorry, we couldn’t resist.) step that has the potential to significantly help Tucson animals.
While neither the Pima Animal Care Center nor the Humane Society of Southern Arizona keeps track of [...]
Americans like their pets. Two out of three of our homes have pets, a whopping 163 million dogs and cats living as full family members.
And Americans like their presidents to have pets too, mainly dogs. Apparently voters think it says something about the chief executive’s character or something. Try to think of a president who [...]
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While lawmakers in Washington struggle to solve the nation’s foreclosure crisis, officials here are using a small fish to clean up some of the mess.
The Gambusia affinis is commonly known as the “mosquito fish” because of its healthy appetite for the larvae of the irritating and disease-spreading insects. Lately, the fish is being pressed into [...]
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I first read this story in an email from my dad, who received it from a high school classmate, who received it from someone else, etc. This mule v. cougar story is one of the craziest I’ve heard in a while, so I decided that it deserved some investigation.
After researching on the web, we [...]
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In the swank Country Club area of Anthem, Ariz., Barbara Ward-Windgassen’s rescue group has saved a bichon frise, Lhasa apso and shih tzu — some with their leashes still on — after their owners had abandoned them in their foreclosed high-priced homes.
She’s also helped find new homes for a rottweiler and pit bull that were [...]
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About 800 small dogs, including Chihuahuas, terriers and Pomeranians, were seized from a triple-wide mobile home whose occupants were overwhelmed trying to care for the animals, authorities said Wednesday.
Pima County sheriff’s deputies and animal welfare officials who removed the dogs also found 82 caged parrots in the home in a rural area northwest of Tucson.
Some [...]
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The Bush Administration’s decision to not prepare a recovery plan for the endangered jaguar in its native habitat in Arizona and New Mexico may spell the end for the big cat in the United States, says an environmental group.
The Center for Biological Diversity says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision seeks to circumvent the [...]
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What could be more Animal-esque than Super Furry Animals? Here’s their tour schedule for the new year.
12/31 – London, ENG – Royal Festival Hall
01/23 – Hoboken, NJ – Maxwell’s
01/25 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
01/26 – Philadelphia, PA – Starlight Ballroom
01/27 – Washington, D.C. – 9:30 Club
01/29 – [...]
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