City council seizes 49 pit-bulls
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Almost 50 pit-bull terriers have been surrendered to Belfast City Council since May of last year.
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FARGO, N.D. - A man was in custody in Fargo after allegedly taking his pit bull from a veterinary clinic in St. Cloud, Minn., where it was scheduled to be euthanized.  Robert Herrington, 19, from the St. Cloud area, took the dog Aug.
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By Larry Sandler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Jun. 8--A measure to crack down on loitering by suspected gang members won new life Thursday with the backing of a Milwaukee Common Council committee.
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By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 5--RALEIGH -- An owl hooted. A goldfinch warbled. And a gaggle of City Council members, city officials and environmentalists wandered across the pasture at Horseshoe Farm Park in northeast Raleigh last week.
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By JAKE RIGDON Journal Staff Writer  Sandoval County has an illegal dumping ordinance written specifically for the area where a number of coyote carcasses were found this week.
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An animal protection group on Friday rescued more than 200 animals, including 26 hissing cockroaches and two bearded dragons, from an eastern Texas home.
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PROVO, S.D. - The Humane Society of the Black Hills removed 150-200 dogs from the rural residence of an elderly woman at Provo in southwest South Dakota.
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Criminals may be stealing Staffordshire Bull Terriers and using them to guard stolen property, a police report says.
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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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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 hound...
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ROSE CITY, Mich. - Police spent Tuesday morning rounding up a host of four-legged fugitives turned loose after a truck delivering them to northeast Michigan pet stores collided with a tractor.
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Two dogs seized because they were believed to be pit bull-type animals have been saved from a death.
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - City workers planned to remove signs in a neighborhood warning drivers to slow down for kudzu-eating goats in the area, after the public works department said they were posted illegally.
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said on Thursday the mayors of more than 100 other U.S. cities have joined their effort to get illegal guns off America's streets after a spike in violent crime.
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More than 160 feral cats and kittens have been rescued from the site of the London 2012 Olympics as demolition work continues at a pace.
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A city-county board approved a $325 million bond issue for a new arena and authorized a 30-year lease with the Pittsburgh Penguins.
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - Skunks have invaded a downtown neighborhood, and the city has agreed to spend $2,500 to get rid of them...