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Shaving dogs may do more harm than good
GETTING dogs shaved in the long, hot, humid summer is a ritual for many pet owners who believe that a good shave, or partial shave and hair-thinning help keep their pets cool in the scorching heat. And pet salons......
July 3, 2012, Tuesday
'Clairvoyant' pig, elephant, ferret
WITH a pig in Kiev (Ukraine), an elephant in Krakow (Poland) and now, believe it or not, a ferret in Kharkiv (Ukraine), sports prognosticating has truly gone wild. Two years after Paul the Octopus became a household......
June 19, 2012, Tuesday
Environment disaster feared
A United Nations report warns that the earth's environmental systems "are being pushed toward their biophysical limits" and that sudden, irreversible and potentially catastrophic changes are looming. The UN's......
June 19, 2012, Tuesday
No wild animals in circus
PARAGUAY has banned using wild animals in circuses. The South American country's environment secretary said last week that wild animals must be protected and can no longer be used in entertainment shows, even......
June 19, 2012, Tuesday
Pandas on loan to Malaysia
MALAYSIA says it will receive a pair of panda cubs on loan from China to mark four decades of diplomatic ties. China regularly sends the prized animals abroad as part of "panda diplomacy" to signal strong relations. ......
June 19, 2012, Tuesday
Campus pets help relieve stress
UST down the hall from the reference desk at Emory University's law library in a room housing antique legal texts is Stanley the golden retriever puppy. Stanley rolls around on the floor and chews on a toy while......
May 25, 2012, Friday
US seeks solution to privately owned exotic cats
OF all the beasts set free by the suicidal owner of an exotic animal farm in Ohio last year, few were as scary or as lethal as the big cats. Tigers, leopards and lions - more than two dozen - were loose before......
May 18, 2012, Friday
'Oriental treasures' find new home
SOME living "oriental treasures" are now in Shanghai. Ten endangered crested ibises, five female and five male, are adapting to life in their new home at Shanghai Wildlife Park. One female has already laid an egg......
May 11, 2012, Friday
Cat food donated for 'cat kids'
SECOND Chance Animal Aid Shanghai and Whiskas cat food company have donated food for more than 150 stray cats at a shelter in Baoshan District. The shelter owner calls the animals his "cat kids." "These cats......
May 3, 2012, Thursday
Deaths of 'river pig' dolphins raise specter of extinction
WHEN the "bai ji", or white Yangtze River dolphin, was declared functionally extinct in 2007, the last surviving mammal in the Yangtze River became the finless porpoise (jiang tun), fondly known as the river pig because......
April 27, 2012, Friday
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