Woman Orders Bears Out of Her Kitchen
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VAIL, Colo. - A 72-year-old woman making pot roast in her kitchen discovered uninvited guests in her home Thursday: a bear and her cub.  The unidentified woman walked into the kitchen and found the bear standing six feet away, apparently surprising it, Vail police Sgt. Dan Torgerson said.
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Should zookeepers intervene when a mom wants to eat her offspring? That's the question being debated by Germany's polar bear lovers
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Bear's stretch of outperformance is expected to end.
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BRANFORD, Conn. - A New York woman is receiving rabies shots after being bitten by a coyote at a rest stop along Interstate 95. The animal had been hanging around the McDonald's restaurant at the rest stop and was being fed by employees, authorities said.
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A brown bear looking for food in a Carpathian Mountains sanatorium overnight got more than he bargained for, staff said Wednesday.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A southwest Missouri woman has asked the Springfield-Greene County Health Department to allow her to take her pet monkey into local restaurants as a service animal.
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Staff at Battersea Dogs' Home were baffled after an apparent troublemaker released dozens of animals night after night, allowing them to raid the kitchen and cause chaos.
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By WES SMALLING, PHOTO BY JANE PHILLIPS  ANIMALS  If you leave your hummingbird feeder or your pet's food dish out at night, you might be awakened at 3 a.m. by a grumpy old bear rummaging through your backyard.
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By Meghan E. Murphy, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Jun. 27--Dorothy Zabka inspects each slice of watermelon laid out on the table, wiping a speck of dirt from a rind here, combining two small slices on a plate there.
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Wildlife officials in Baker Lake Resort, Washington, recently found a black bear passed out on the lawn.
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LOWBER, Pa. - A woman was charged with maiming and mutilating animals for performing two cat operations in her home, police said Tuesday.  Loria Bauer was a do-it-yourself vet who mangled the paw of a kitten Nov. 15 when its owner paid $50 for the procedure.
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Martha Stewart has some helpful advice for the cooks at Camp Cupcake: Try some new recipes. In a missive to her minions on the eve of her first Christmas behind bars, the jailed domestic
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The 45-year-old grandmother of Ellie Lawrenson tells a court she broke no family rules by allowing a pit bull terrier inside her home.
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PHOENIX - A Phoenix woman who kept a mountain lion and other wild animals in her home has been charged with child abuse and endangerment.  Michelle Carole Gierke, 32, admitted keeping a mountain lion, two bobcats and an African serval at her west Phoenix home.
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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - Puppy love got a nurse in trouble. Sandy O'Leary, 58, pleaded no contest to misdemeanor theft and was sentenced to 200 hours community service for taking a cocker spaniel puppy from a car outside PetsMart.
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Nuremberg zoo refused demands to rear vulnerable polar bear cubs who were apparently eaten by mother
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A volunteer at the Eagle River Nature Center is recovering after being bitten by a brown bear sow. Alaska Department of Fish and Game officials say Sarah Wallmer was bitten on the buttocks on the Crow Pass Trail, about a mile from the nature center.