Mexican State Recruits Cats to Fight Rats
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MONTERREY, Mexico - Health authorities in the northern state of Chihuahua said Tuesday they are recruiting hundreds of cats to fight hundreds of thousands of rats.    Chihuahua state officials say they hope to collect as many as 700 felines and send them to Atascaderos, an isolated farm village in the rugged Tarahumara mountains, a region where officials estimate there are about a half million rats...
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New research shows that despite their reputation, rats will hlep each other, even strangers, acquire food.
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X Men therapy curbs lager-swilling rodent lifestyle Scientists based in Chile and Colorado have carried out astonishing research which appears to offer a cure for that scourge of modern society - alcoholism in rats.â¦
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By Copyright  2007 Albuquerque Journal BY RENE ROMO Journal Southern Bureau  LAS CRUCES -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to kill an endangered Mexican gray wolf that is the subject of a Feb. 5 removal order because trapping the animal is too difficult.
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ELYRIA, Ohio - Jennifer Mitchell's apartment is full of rats, and that's exactly how she wants it. Mitchell runs a rat rescue mission, caring for dozens of rats from people who get overwhelmed when their pet rodents have multiple babies.
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Drug battles and 27 abductions of Americans trigger Mexico advisory.
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The Mozambican government on Monday authorised soldiers to gun down wild animals who are seen as a threat to human beings after a new report highlighted an increase in the number of deadly attacks.
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MEXICO CITY -- President Felipe Calder&#xF3;n of Mexico has dispatched a new, 5,000-strong, elite military unit to guard strategic sites, including oil refineries and hydroelectric dams, in the wake of guerrilla attacks on pipelines operated by the national oil and gas company, Pemex, according to news reports yesterday.
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The Interior Department has abandoned attempts to craft a recovery plan for the endangered jaguar because too few of the rare cats have been spotted along the Southwest region of New Mexico and Arizona to warrant such action.
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Deep in the heart of the Florida Keys, wildlife officials are laying bait laced with poison to try to wipe out a colony of enormous African rats that could threaten crops and other animals.
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Scientists investigating the unpleasant problem of what the cat drags in believe they have found a way to curb felines' predatory urges.
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Mexico's government said Thursday it would send troops and police to root out drug smugglers in several states, expanding an offensive that began this week in one violence-plagued state where soldiers clashed with traffickers trying to protect a marijuana field.
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RED BANK Tenn. - Police are investigating after a man wrote about launching a &quot;feline jihad&quot; to rid his Chattanooga suburb of stray cats. Max Gerskin wrote a two-part series in the Chattanooga Pulse weekly publication, the first of which was published Aug.
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Western states grapple with how to address an increasing threat to livestock from wolves and big cats.
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City officials have sided with Ernest Hemingway's former home and its celebrated six-toed felines in its catfight with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Health officials in the Mexican state of Chihuahua fail to deal with a rat plague by sending in hundreds of cats.
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Alan Rabinowitz has persuaded dictatorships and democracies alike to protect their felines.