Strait-Jacketed Teddy Bear Brings Protests
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MONTPELIER, Vt. - The Vermont Teddy Bear Co. said Wednesday it would continue selling its strait-jacketed "Crazy for You Bear" through Valentine's Day, despite protests from mental health advocates.
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A $7,500 (3,917 pound) fur coat donated by pop diva Mariah Carey and intended for Mongolia's poor has disappeared, a leading animal rights group said on Thursday.
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TORONTO (CP) - The much-maligned pit bull was celebrated by animal lovers in front of the legislature in Toronto on Saturday, in reaction to a call by Ontario's attorney general to ban the breed.
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A campaigner dressed as Batman, from the fathers&#39; rights group that pelted Prime Minister Tony Blair with flour-filled condoms, staged a dramatic protest on a Buckingham Palace balcony Monday.
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Save the women and children first! There's a bear among the BlackBerries!
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SHELBURNE, Vt. Vermont Teddy Bear Company says holiday orders rose 29 percent from a year ago. The company says it received about 105-thousand orders in December for its BearGram, PajamaGram, TastyGram and Calyx and Corolla gift products.
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Rights campaigners protested Tuesday over a device used to disperse unruly young people by emitting a high-pitched noise which only they can hear.
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The stuffed bear specialist is ready to get stuffed with buyout offers.
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urged protesters to form a &quot;human shield&quot; to protect the house of Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo. the unrest in Ivory Coast, the world&#39;s largest cocoa grower.
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"So far, it can only crawl a little"  BERLIN - It's a girl! Maybe. Zoo officials in Nuremberg announced Wednesday that Germany's new polar bear cub is probably a female. via Detroit Free Press
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A poster claiming that gay people want to "abolish the family" is criticised by the advertising watchdog.
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MAPLEWOOD, N.J. - The last thing Lorraine Grossman expected to see as she gazed out the kitchen window of her daughter's home was a 211-pound bear. &quot;I was making a pot of coffee, and I turned around and there he was in the window looking at me,&quot; said Grossman.
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"Gu Gu" is one of the star attractions at the Beijing Zoo but the panda bear with a bad temper has lashed out at a fan for the second time, this time mauling a 15-year-old boy.
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Berlin Zoo's star polar bear cub Knut welcomed his millionth visitor Thursday, showing he hasn't lost his drawing power even if he's growing up.
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Her name is Franska, one of five Slovenian brown bears introduced in the French Pyrenees mountains last year in a conservation programme that has gone awry.
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Wildlife campaigners promote a test kit to help enforce the ban on the international trade in bear products.
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A five-week-old polar bear cub, which had to be taken away from its mother over fears it might be eaten, has been named after a public poll.