He was a pig in a poke but now he’s in hog heaven.
A 400 pound pig was found wandering a neighborhood in Adams Run.
Now he’s the newest guest at the Charleston Animal Society - a new guest that needs a big room.
“It’s about 400 pounds now, it can easily reach 800 to 1000 [...]
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Moogy is about three years old and housetrained. His former owners foreclosed on their South Florida home and could no longer keep him, reports CBS station WFOR-TV in Miami.
Michelle Frier, adoption supervisor at the Wildlife Care Center, said “They were heartbroken - to have to give him up, and I think, he was heartbroken to [...]
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Call her Squeaky the Wonder Pig, or the cowpig or a 385-pound guard pig. But most of all, call her when it’s time for pizza.
Squeaky is clearly no ordinary pig.
The pet and partner of Mike Veara, manager of Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan’s China Grove Ranch in Brazoria County, she herds cows, eats pizza [...]
It’s just not fair, said Peat Willcutt. How can it be legal to have goats, pigs and bees in St. Paul, but people in Minneapolis have to hide theirs?
As urban agriculture booms in the Twin Cities area, Minneapolis residents are pressing their city to let them expand their backyard farms beyond chickens to bees [...]
HONOLULU, Hawaii (AP) — Animal-rights activists want the United States to stop using animals as subjects to help train its military, calling the medical and trauma exercises cruel and a disservice to the troops.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter Monday to Defense Secretary Robert Gates asking him to replace the use [...]
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There is an aura of content among the donkeys, cows, pigs, goats, horses, rabbits and cats at Rosia Kennedy’s Rainbow End Farm in Granby.
Kennedy rescued all of the 45 animals at the 8-acre farm from abuse, neglect or slaughter. Today they live in stalls and cages kept spic-and-span by Kennedy, a wiry 4-foot-11-inch woman with [...]
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The European Union’s top food safety agency said on Thursday cloned animal products may not be safe and further study was needed, prompting another battle of conscience within the bloc over the merits of new technology.
“It is clear there are significant animal health and welfare issues for surrogate mothers and clones that can be more [...]
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PETA is calling for a halt to planned medical trauma training in Hawaii that involves soldiers being instructed to shoot pigs, but the U.S. army says it will proceed with the exercise.
The exercise, scheduled for Friday, is intended to teach soldiers heading to Iraq this year how to treat injured colleagues on the battlefield.
Kathy Guillermo, [...]
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Smythson, the Queen’s stationer, has been criticised for selling luxury leather gifts using the skins of rare lizards.
The Bond Street stationer, which employs Samantha Cameron, the wife of the Conservative leader David Cameron, is reportedly selling at least a dozen products made from the [...]
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Perhaps you remember the pigs that were stranded in Iowa because of severe flooding? That volunteers from four animal welfare agencies were trying to reach the animals with feed, apples and Gatorade? Well, the Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch column reports some success:
After nearly three weeks on the ground undertaking an unprecedented disaster response effort, [...]
