Pets killed for food in Zimbabwe
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Pets are being slaughtered for meat in shortage-stricken Zimbabwe and record numbers of animals have been surrendered to shelters or abandoned by owners no longer able to feed them, animal welfare activists say.
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MELBOURNE, Fla. - All over one suburban subdivision, wild pigs have left their mark.  There was a dead cat. Ruth Strahosky's lawn was shredded when she was on vacation.
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Nearly 200 hippopotamuses are dead after an anthrax outbreak in western Uganda. Wildlife officials in the East African nation said Tuesday 194 Hippos had died In Queen Elizabeth National Park since July.
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Scientists in China may use a police  dog to teach pandas to fight after the first artificially bred  panda released into the wild was apparently killed after a  battle with other animals, local media reported on Saturday.
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London has outlawed feeding pigeons in Trafalgar Square and brought in trained hawks to kill them, prompting legal action against Mayor Ken Livingstone.
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TAK, Oct 19 (TNA) _ The Sriracha Tigers Zoo in the eastern province of Chonburi has been closed after 23 tigers have died allegedly from bird flu, said Deputy Prime Minister Chaturon Chaisang Tuesday.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A company that made contaminated pet food that killed dozens of dogs nationwide will pay $3.1 million in a settlement with pet owners, an attorney said Friday.
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Anthrax has killed 18 hippos at a  Ugandan national park where nearly 200 of the animals died in  the worst mass wildlife deaths from disease three months ago, a  government official said on Saturday.
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A tiger zoo in Thailand shut its doors yesterday after 23 of the animals died from bird flu and a further 30 were infected. Tigers at the Sri Racha zoo in Chonburi are believed to have
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Sick canine carcass off the menu Sixty-eight people from two Namibian villages ended up in hospital after "eating a dog that had died of disease", The Namibian reports.â¦
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Zimbabwe's government says it intends to end state subsidies for black-owned commercial farms.
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Two former golf club employees have been charged with theft and cruelty to animals in the death of a pet dog the owners say was cooked and eaten.
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The risk of "sudden major violence" is growing in Zimbabwe as it struggles with food shortages, record inflation of some 1,600 percent, repression and corruption, a respected international research group said Tuesday.
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The Zimbabwean government on Thursday invited white farmers thrown out of their properties during a controversial land seizure campaign to collect compensation for improvements on their farms.
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An investigation is under way into the death of a five-month-old girl savaged by two dogs.
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Recent outbreaks of ebola among people in Africa also killed thousands of gorillas, animals already threatened by hunting, a new study reports.
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WAYNESBURG, Pa. - Police and animal control officials have confiscated dozens of cats and dogs that were living in a small house with three adults.  The animals included 47 dogs, along with cats and guinea pigs.