(Wahington Post) Cathryn Washington, 67, left 14-year-old Delta in the vehicle as she ran in to buy some pet products on an afternoon when the temperature hit 104 degrees, Sgt. David Luckenbaugh of Frederick Animal Control said. She intended to just be 15 minutes or so, she later told her estranged husband Charles Washington. She...
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Woman returns dog food immediately after her dog dies in hot car while she was shopping
Nebraska man dies after being strangled by pet snake
By Margery A. Beck (AP) OMAHA, Neb. – A suburban Omaha man has died after being strangled by his 9-foot, 25-pound pet boa constrictor, authorities said Thursday. Cory Byrne, 34, of Papillion died Wednesday night at a local hospital, just hours after police and paramedics pried the snake from around his neck, police said. Byrne...
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Toxoplasmosis and psychology: a case of fatal feline attraction
Toxoplasma gondii is not an alien; it is a relative of that down-to-earth pathogen Plasmodium, the beast that causes malaria. It is common: in some parts of the world as much as 60% of the population is infected with it. A country’s level of Toxoplasma infection seems to be related to the level of neuroticism...
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Chinese astronauts ate dog meat in space
By Malcolm Moore (Telegraph UK) Yang Liwei, the 44-year-old military pilot who commanded the Shenzhou Five mission in 2003, revealed the menu on-board the spacecraft in his autobiography, The Nine Levels between Heaven and Earth. He listed a menu including braised chicken, steamed fish and dog meat from Huajiang county in Guangdong, which is famed for...
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Doper tells police hash turned his girlfriend into a dolphin
(The Local) A man walked into a police station in southern Sweden last week to complain about the quality of the hash that he had been sold, asking for a lump to be tested for traces of LSD. The 26-year-old cannabis connoisseur declared to surprised police officers in the provincial Skåné town of Eslöv that...
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1 in 5 prefer to be with pet over partner on Valentine’s Day
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Rather than spending Valentine’s Day with their partner, one fifth of adults would prefer to be with their pet, although the French still came top for romance, according to a joint global poll by Reuters/Ipsos. The survey of 24,000 people in 23 countries found 21 percent of adults would rather...
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More cat owners ‘have degrees’ than dog-lovers
(BBC) People who own a cat are more likely to have a university degree than those with a pet dog, a study by Bristol University suggests. A poll of 2,524 households found that 47.2% of those with a cat had at least one person educated to degree level, compared with 38.4% of homes with dogs....
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Man killed by his dogs after saving them from death for attacking humans
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia — A Slovenian who saved his three dogs from being put down for attacking humans was himself mauled to death by them, police said on Wednesday. “Three dogs bit their 52-year-old owner to death in Ljubljana yesterday,” police spokeswoman Maja Adlesic said. via Man killed by dogs after saving them from death...
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Movie made by chimpanzees to be broadcast on television
By Matt Walker (BBC) The world’s first film shot entirely by chimpanzees is to be broadcast by the BBC as part of a natural history documentary. The apes created the movie using a specially designed chimp-proof camera given to them by primatologists. The film-making exercise is part of a scientific study into how chimpanzees...
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