Mother cat adopts pup rejected by mother
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Who says cats and dogs don't get along? Workers at the Meriden Humane Society are marveling at a short-haired mother cat who has willingly adopted a six-day-old Rottweiler puppy that was rejected by its mother.
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Health officials in the Mexican state of Chihuahua fail in their effort to deal with a rat plague by sending in hundreds of cats.
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ST. LOUIS - A woman accused of pummeling a dog breeder over the head with a dead Chihuahua puppy was found guilty Wednesday of misdemeanor assault and trespassing.  Lisa Hopfer, 34, faces up to 18 months in jail and a $1,500 fine.
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A game of cat and mouse is under way between the U.S. government and Florida&#39;s Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum over the fate of dozens of felines roaming the former home of the Nobel Prize-winning author.
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All the worldâs 600 million housecats are descended from the subspecies known as Felis silvestris lybica, scientists have concluded based on new DNA research.
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Cat and mouse may never be the same. Japanese scientists say they've used genetic engineering to create mice that show no fear of felines, a development that may shed new light on mammal behavior and the nature of fear itself.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 19 -- Mothers deciding to place their infants for adoption deserve better counseling, more time to change their minds, and more support in trying to keep track of the children they relinquish, a leading adoption institute recommends in a sweeping new report.
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The world's first cloned cat just became a mother &#151; and she even did it without test tubes. Copy Cat, who was cloned by Texas A&amp;M University researchers in 2001, had three kittens in September. Mother and kittens are doing well, said Duane Kraemer, an A&amp;M veterinary medicine professor who helped clone her and has been taking care of her since.
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The first cloned-to-order pet sold in the United States is named Little Nicky, a 9-week-old kitten delivered to a Texas woman saddened by the loss of a cat she had owned for 17 years.
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Working with cheetahs, the world's  fastest land animal and now an endangered species, is a bit  different from treating cats and dogs, but Bertrand Lafrance  felt he had little choice.
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By JIM FITZGERALD CORTLANDT, N.Y. - Describing abandoned puppies as &quot;terrorists&quot; in a classified ad doesn't seem like a good way to get them adopted. Unless you're in the animal-rescue world of Paula Young.
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SPENCER, Iowa - The final chapter is closed on Dewey Readmore Books. The 19-year-old cat, who became a mascot for the city's library after being found in a book drop, died Wednesday in the arms of librarian Vicki Myron.
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Growing up, Peter Neesley was an animal-lover who always took in strays around his Michigan home. So when his family heard that the Army sergeant was taking care of two dogs outside his Baghdad military base, no one was surprised.
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ENTERPRISE, Fla. - The dishes, garbage and dirty laundry would pile up for days when Cat and Harlan Barnard's teenage children refused to do their chores. So the Barnards went on strike, moving out of their house and into a domed tent set up in their front driveway.
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PARKERSBURG, West Virginia - It took two fire trucks, five firefighters, several animal rescuers and about 250 gallons of water to rescue a kitten that refused to come out of a West Virginia storm sewer drain.
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The final chapter is closed on Dewey Readmore Books. The 19-year-old cat, who became a mascot for the city's library after being found in a book drop, died Wednesday in the arms of librarian Vicki Myron.
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City officials have sided with Ernest Hemingway's former home and its celebrated six-toed felines in its catfight with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.