Pets
Courtesy/Lisa Watson - Little Blankita is Lisa Watson's daredevil ferret, willing to jump off high places without a thought.
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Blankita thought about a career as a high-flying acrobat, but one drop from a few bales of hay and the subsequent sore back made the little white ferret quickly reconsider its line of work. “(Ferr...
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Most pet owners have their dog or cat spayed or neutered to prevent their animals from bringing more puppies and kittens into the world.
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Bud Heath credits his long-haired Siamese cats Rambo and Lucky for being his test subjects. The pair helped Heath pioneer a containment system to keep the cats in his own backyard and stray cats f...
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This year, the Madison Square Garden crowd can root for one — she’s Chanel, a sleek, 2-year-old who can sprint 35 mph and loves to chase birds and tennis balls.
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Kane is a playful, young guy full of enthusiasm and a zest for life. He is a great traveling companion and likes to ride in cars. Kane is also a great exercise buddy because he likes walks and walk...
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The Shakespeare Animal Fund helps pet owners in tough times.
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Taking flight with a feathered friend as a pet is as simple as doing the research and learning how to bond with birds.
national news
DENVER (AP) -- Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was a straight-A nursing student when she abruptly left Colorado last fall with her 6-year-old son and turned up in Ireland, where her parents say she was arrested this week in an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist....
Sat Mar 13 06:22:30 -0600 2010
POWAY, Calif. (AP) -- Students have wrapped ribbons around 8,000 sunflowers to hand out at a memorial service for Chelsea King, the 17-year-old girl whose murder has shaken her community and spurred calls for legal changes in how child sex offenders are treated....
Sat Mar 13 06:23:27 -0600 2010
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- A U.N. meeting to assess progress in advancing the fight for women's equality that ended Friday had a dramatically different slant than a similar session held five years ago: This time, the United States was not trying to make an anti-abortion declaration a crucial theme....
Sat Mar 13 06:23:16 -0600 2010
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Investigators are confronted with a series of nagging questions as they try to unravel the case of a California real estate agent who said his Toyota Prius turned into a runaway death trap after the gas pedal became stuck....
Sat Mar 13 04:43:21 -0600 2010
NEW YORK (AP) -- Thousands of New York City taxi drivers overcharged passengers by more than $8.3 million over the past two years by setting their meters at a rate that was supposed to be used for trips to the suburbs, the Taxi and Limousine Commission said Friday....
Sat Mar 13 04:42:59 -0600 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The name of the late actor Corey Haim was found on a fraudulent prescription for a powerful painkiller that authorities said Friday was obtained through a major drug ring....
Sat Mar 13 06:23:31 -0600 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The feared release of a convicted child molester from a California prison was thwarted Friday by 11th-hour federal charges involving child porn and a woman's allegations that he bought her as a child in Asia and subjected her to years of sexual abuse while molesting her young friends....
Fri Mar 12 22:47:46 -0600 2010