Suburban Fla. Man Strangles Rabid Bobcat
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WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. - Dale Rippy says he was acting on instinct when a rabid 25-pound bobcat attacked him on his porch in this central Florida suburb. Rippy, 62, endured the bobcat's slashes and bites until it clawed into a position where he could grab it by the throat.
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A man captured neighborhood cats and kittens and fed them live to his pit bulls, authorities said Thursday. Tye Hilmo, 21, was charged Thursday with aggravated cruelty to animals.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Florida is scheduled to   execute a man on Wednesday, whose case touched off a round of   legal battles over the use of lethal injection to kill   criminals.
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MOBILE, Ala. - A woman who helped rescue an injured cat on the roadside got a surprise when a veterinarian told her it was a wild and potentially dangerous bobcat.  Liza Eldred, her teenage daughter and the girl's friend found the female bobcat Saturday on U.S.
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A: One race to go, and the tension is so thick, noted outdoorsman Ward Burton could barely slice it with a big, scary hunting knife.
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CASSELBERRY, Fla. - Police say they're sure they shot a four-foot-long, 80-pound monitor lizard that had been lurking in an Orlando suburb for months. Still, neighbors aren't ready to let their children or pets back outside until they see a carcass.
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A man who fatally shot a teenage neighbor because he walked on the man's carefully tended lawn was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison.
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Wildlife officers on Monday fatally wounded a bear they believed was the same animal that snatched an 11-year-old boy from his family's tent and killed the youngster.
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By Richard Stewart, Houston Chronicle  Jan. 31--ANGLETON -- A 17-year-old Angleton man has been charged with cruelty to animals after he allegedly tied up a stray cat and let the pit bull he got for his birthday tear the cat apart while he videotaped the incident.
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A man was killed in a fall from a tree in  central Florida, bringing to 23 the number of people killed  during and after Hurricane Charley's destructive rampage in the  state, a state emergency official said on Thursday.
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An 11-year-old boy was dragged screaming from his family's tent and killed by a black bear during a Father's Day outing in the Utah wilderness.
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SARASOTA, Fla. - A 49-year-old man has been cited in the stabbing death of an alligator nicknamed "Elvis" by the residents of the golf club community the reptile called home.  The five-foot alligator was found dying in October with a hunting knife lodged in its head.
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A 13-foot boa constrictor wrapped itself around its owner's neck and killed the man in his home, authorities said.
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By Ray Sasser, The Dallas Morning News  Sep. 10--It's ironic that Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, was killed last week by a stingray. Irwin, the hyperactive Australian, made a fortune by antagonizing large, dangerous animals into aggressive attacks for the camera.
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A 59-year-old man's arm was bitten off by an alligator as he snorkeled in a South Carolina lake, but doctors were unable to reattach it.
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An angry crowd in Texas beats and kills a man who was in a car that hit and injured a young girl.
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By MADELYN TROYANEK, Staff. Grant Bradley, 14, of Crescent Beach, said he thought he &quot;was going to die&quot; when a 350-pound tiger pounced on him late Saturday at the St.