Brazen Coyotes Have Local Pet Owners Howling
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By By John Branton, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Jun. 25--Betty Mitchell was doing chores outside her home late Tuesday morning when she heard her miniature schnauzer, Maddie, let out a yelp.   She went running to her front yard.
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Police believe the three people mauled by a tiger yelled and waved at the cat from atop a railing before it lunged at them, but experts say that's only a notch up from the type of taunting animals regularly endure at the nation's zoos.
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There once was a dog that was chained to a leash in its owner&#39;s front yard. A neighbor&#39;s child wandered onto the property - trespasses would be the technical word for it -â and started poking the dog in the ears, the eyes, the mouth.
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The first and most striking sensation is the howling - a primal cacophony reverberating across frozen Lake Chocorua in the morning chill.
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PHOENIX - A Phoenix woman who kept a mountain lion and other wild animals in her home has been charged with child abuse and endangerment.  Michelle Carole Gierke, 32, admitted keeping a mountain lion, two bobcats and an African serval at her west Phoenix home.
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MEXICO CITY - For one northern Mexican town, an army of cats seemed like the best strategy against a plague of mice. But the cats proved no match for the problem, and now the town is pinning its hopes on a more lethal predator: men armed with cash incentives.
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Incensed bird lovers have intensified their protests outside a ritzy Upper East Side New York apartment building in the United States that removed the nest of famed red-tailed hawk Pale Male even as meetings were set to discuss bringing back the hawk&#39;s
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By POLLY SUMMAR Journal Staff Writer  Zozobra may have been burned Thursday night, but there will be gloom on Escalante Street until a marauding mountain lion is caught.
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BRANFORD, Conn. - A New York woman is receiving rabies shots after being bitten by a coyote at a rest stop along Interstate 95. The animal had been hanging around the McDonald's restaurant at the rest stop and was being fed by employees, authorities said.
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When jaguars kill cattle, ranchers retaliate. Now conservationists are trying for a truce that could save the Americasâ biggest cat.
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HOMER CITY, Pa.  When the screeching of claws against metal fences becomes too much to bear, when they no longer can tolerate the cacophony of howling and whining that rumbles across this former coal-mining town, Bob Alexander's neighbors have been known to march up his gravel driveway, past 70 h...
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  OCEANA - When a pack of coyotes attacked his nephew's coon hound, Doug Prichard decided he'd had enough.   Five years after that dog, Smokie, was mauled, Prichard has seen his Smokie Coyote Hunt Club expand into 20 counties throughout West Virginia.
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This is one pack of Tigers whose growl has gotten them in more trouble than their bite. While this year&#39;s club can celebrate more victories and far more hits than last season
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PITTSBURGH - Did you hear the one about the insurance agent and the coyote?  So have the Pennsylvania Game Commission, wildlife agencies in other states and insurers.
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Gunfire and gang violence are alarming people in this farm town where the usual background noise is the reassuring chug of field machinery.
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Wildfires are flaring bigger and hotter in Alaska, the northern Rockies and the Sierra Nevada. Bighorn sheep, mountain goats and grizzly bears in Glacier National Park, along with deer and marsh rabbits in the Florida Keys, face a housing crisis.
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Though illegal, dog fighting continues to draw crowds hungry for the sight of blood and the gambling thrill. A law enforcement officer takes us inside this underground world.