Minn. Dog Injured Last Year Is Recovering
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Around this time last year, Josie the dog had a broken back, a dislocated hip and internal injuries. A veterinarian suggested putting her to sleep. Instead, the Twedt family decided to skip Christmas presents and use the money to pay Josie's medical bills.
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ATHENS -- A year ago in Anaheim, Calif., they were out of uniform and on crutches, their world meet over before it began, their careers in doubt. Annia Hatch had dislocated her left knee and torn her anterior cruciate ligament. Courtney Kupets had ruptured her left Achilles' tendon. Last night, they were both on the Olympic medal stand with medals ...
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By Nicholas Azzara, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Feb. 14--MANATEE -- Every dog could have his day at outdoor dining areas of certain restaurants around Manatee County later this year.
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RICHLAND, Wash. - Leana Beasley has faith that a dog is man's best friend. Faith, a 4-year-old Rottweiler, phoned 911 when Beasley fell out of her wheelchair and barked urgently into the receiver until a dispatcher sent help. Then the service dog unlocked the front door for the police officer.
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GREAT FALLS A Great Falls Marine is hospitalized in Germany after being wounded in Iraq.
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WHITEHORSE, Yukon Territory - An exuberant dog left in a truck while the owner watched Canada win the World Cup of Hockey managed to throw the vehicle into gear and coast down a city hill.    A man out for a walk called police after seeing the vehicle coast by with a black Labrador retriever behind the wheel...
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CORINTH, Vt. - A man who tried to care for more than 300 goats and had some of the animals living in his house with him has had animals that were seized from him returned and won permission to move them out of state.
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The Kentucky Derby winner is gone, but his impact on veterinary medicine lives on.
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DENVER - A black Labrador named Pearl who plunged through thin ice on a Denver lake Tuesday was reunited with her owner after a firefighter in a dive suit scooted along the ice and scooped up the scrambling pooch. The rescue was caught on video by two television stations.
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CALGARY (CP) - Zack the dog was home with his original family Friday, but it's not a happy ending for everyone involved.
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Researchers appear to be one step closer to finding a treatment that can reverse paralysis caused by spinal cord injuries. By injecting paralyzed dogs with polyethylene glyco, veterinarians at Purdue University
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Barbaro was given a walk in the intensive care unit by his veterinarian, perhaps a sign the ailing Kentucky Derby winner was responding well to treatment for an often fatal condition in his left hind leg.
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Researchers have successfully tested injections of a liquid polymer to heal spinal injuries in dogs in an experiment that also offers hope for preventing human paralysis.
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FAIR LAWN, N.J. - A coyote snatched from its guard post at a municipal pool last month has been rescued from a trash heap...
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Sioux Falls, South Dakota - A man who weighed about half a ton when he was admitted to a hospital was recovering on Wednesday from obesity surgery.
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For some amputees in a rehabilitation exercise room at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, recovery means choosing to return to active duty in the U.S. Army.
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PRINCE GEORGE, British Columbia - Shirley Tompkins and her husband Bob began helping a wounded fox last winter. Now a second also is showing up at their trailer. "A little red fox showed up last February with a broken front left leg, walking on three legs," Shirley Tompkins said.