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BRANDON, Fla. - A palm-sized pet turtle and the golden retriever that gobbled it up survived the misadventure thanks to the quick actions of a 12-year-old girl, a veterinarian said.  The saga of Pepper the red-eared slider turtle and Bella the golden retriever started last week.
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NEW YORK  - Despite warnings, a  considerable number of young Michigan children catch Salmonella  from pet reptiles, a new study shows.
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Some artists suffer for their work. Maggie, an 11-year-old sea lion at the Pittsburgh Zoo &amp; PPG Aquarium, gets to eat dead fish for hers. Kesha Phares, a zoo trainer, has been teaching the animal to paint since last year.
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A leatherback turtle has been tracked swimming from the coast of the Papua province in Indonesia to Oregon, researchers said, in what may be the longest trip for marine vertebrae between breeding and feeding sites.
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By TOFAYEL AHMED  COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh - Hundreds of endangered sea turtles have been found dead along Bangladesh's coast over the past two weeks, triggering concerns about pollution and local fishing practices, an official said Thursday.
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A 500-pound wildebeest kept with other exotic animals on a northern Indiana farm trampled its owner to death, police said.
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KOKOMO, Ind. - A pregnant tortoise missing for about a week was returned home unharmed in an Army duffel bag...
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A Japanese man died after a bite from his pet hamster caused anaphylactic shock, Mainichi Shimbun reports. Ther nameless forty-something succumbed after repeated bites from the animal sensitised his immune
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Scientists meet in Malaysia to discuss how to save the critically endangered leatherback turtle.
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The diamondback terrapin, a turtle species that lives on the U.S. east coast, is under siege from Asian gourmets and American developers, but now officials and lawmakers are coming to its rescue.
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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - What do you do when a 1,250-pound crocodile turns into a diva? Take him away from his audience. Officials at the St. Augustine Farm and Zoological Park said Maximo has been refusing for about a month to cooperate for his daily feedings of guinea pigs and quail.
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Endangered turtles die shortly after hatching from their eggs. Fish float dead off the coast. Flaming oil sends waves of black smoke toward the city.
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ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA. - The owner of a wildlife sanctuary was injured by a 350-pound Siberian tiger that was startled by a 14-year-old boy at a county fair, officials said Sunday.
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Malaysia - A turtle named Henry headed for the South China Sea one recent moonless night. He was one hour old and not much bigger than a bug, but his flat-flippered dash down the beach showed a determination to live bred into him by ...
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By Brian Nearing, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  May 30--HULETTS LANDING -- To a northern map turtle basking in the sun on the Lake George shoreline, that shape moving slowly in the water could just be an old log. Only at the last minute does it become clear -- it's Karen Robbins.
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Lazarus, an Irish water spaniel, and Chris, a Rhodesian Ridgeback, were among the top competitors at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. And both nearly died years earlier.
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By Joel Hood, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  May 27--LOXAHATCHEE GROVES -- The town of "turtle waters" is losing its turtles.