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Meet the newest member of the Facebook family "Beast" the Hungarian sheepdog. The fluffy "Beast", which will eventually start looking like a floor mop, was recently adopted by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his girlfriend Priscilla Chan.Obviously Zuckerberg has already grossly violated the poor dog's privacy by creating a Facebook page for him, complete with photographs and a bio. Did Beast even consent to this and who filled in his personal information?And which of Beast's owners is pretending to be Beast on the dog's Facebook wall?It's difficult-ish being so cynical when the dog is so cute…but come on…Meet the newest member of the Facebook family "Beast" the Hungarian... more
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Synopsis: Cat gets stuck in sofa. Creatively shot, excellent direction. Nail biting.
The feline remake of 127 Hours is somewhat less dramatic but equally Oscar-worthy.Synopsis: Cat gets stuck in sofa. Creatively shot, excellent direction. Nail biting.... more
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The owl mascot of the Colombian soccer team Atletico Junior died on Sunday after being kicked off the field by Luis Moreno, a player for the opposing side.
Vet Camilo Tapia said the owl went into shock after having been taken in for treatment on Sunday.
The owl's injuries at first were thought to have been minor, including a small fracture to its right leg.
Pereira defender Luis Moreno walked over and kicked the owl about three metres to get it off the field.
The owl served as the mascot for Atletico Junior and Moreno later apologised to home fans.
Humberto Mendoza, the director of agency that oversees environmental issues in Barranquilla, said he was investigating possible sanctions against Moreno.
"We are gathering information to determine the level of aggression," Mendoza said.
Mendoza said Moreno would have to pay the cost of treating the owl and be required to visit a local zoo to do volunteer work.
Pereira club officials and officials of the Colombia football association said Moreno could also face a suspension or fine.
Fans at the match yelled "murderer, murderer" when Moreno kicked the bird, who was seen by supporters as a good-luck charm.
"I want to apologise to the fans," Moreno said after the match. "I was not trying to hurt the owl. I did it to see if it would fly.
"What I wanted to do was get it off the field. The kick was a product of tension on the field at the time."
Atletico Junior defeated Pereira 2-1.
The Barranquilla newspaper El Heraldo said the owl would be preserved by a local taxidermist and put on display at the football stadium where it lived.
Source: APThe owl mascot of the Colombian soccer team Atletico Junior died on Sunday after being... more
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In this video Wayne Pacelle of The Humane Society of the United States discuess his forthcoming book, The Bond: Our Kindship With Animals, Our Call To Defend Them. HSUS's website states the book "examines our contradictory attitudes towards animals and points to a better way forward."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9d1zk8brrU&feature=player_embeddedIn this video Wayne Pacelle of The Humane Society of the United States discuess his... more
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This goat has some good moves, for a goat.
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Chinese animal rights groups are urging TV stations not to show a magic trick of goldfish swimming in formation.They believe the performance could involve the use of magnets or are being controlled by harmful electric currents. The magician Fu Yandong, denies he harms the fish."If I used magnets, the fish would stick together," he told a CCTV news programme."Some people say I use electricity or high technology. They can say what they want, but the fish are safe," he added.The magician has declined to say exactly how the trick is performed.
Chinese animal rights groups are urging TV stations not to show a magic trick of... more
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It is what it says on the bottle, octopus.
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If you're going to have an underwater wedding, be sure to get approval from the local sea turtles before the ceremony.If you're going to have an underwater wedding, be sure to get approval from the... more
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When a cat gets separated from its running buddies, a passerby points it in the right direction and it scampers away without even a thank you. Meow!When a cat gets separated from its running buddies, a passerby points it in the right... more
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This is too cute. Not sure if the dog is thinking "shuddup please" or if it's trying to comfort the baby, who cares!This is too cute. Not sure if the dog is thinking "shuddup please" or if... more
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Slo-Mo Thing of the Day: “We would like to present you, a relaxing video of an adorable little kitten playing in the garden.”Slo-Mo Thing of the Day: “We would like to present you, a relaxing video of an... more
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Environment Films is an independent production company, based in London, specialising in sophisticated films and documentaries. Creating films for many charities, NGOs and Green Company’s. They are offering a great service to those who usually can't afford it.
www.environmentfilms.org
Have a look at "The Performance". Environmental Films & Animals Asia Foundation spent months documenting the use of animals in entertainment across China and as a result had a bank of distressing footage. Over 10 hours had to be pulled into 10 minutes. The script is read by Terry Waite CBE. Music donated by Moby.
http://www.environmentfilms.org/EF/Animals_Asia_The_Performance.htmlEnvironment Films is an independent production company, based in London, specialising... more
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At the Kayabuki restaurant in Utsunomiya, Japan, there are two costumed monkeys who are employed as waiters. Yacchan and Fukuchan wear wigs and masks and wait on tables in a restaurant that reviewers widely discount as having bad food and bad service (from the humans, not the monkeys).At the Kayabuki restaurant in Utsunomiya, Japan, there are two costumed monkeys who... more
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Ever wondered how birds would cope in zero gravity? Not so well it seems...
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The tables turned at a California cockfight after a man was fatally stabbed in the leg by a sharp blade attached to one of the fighting birds.Jose Luis Ochoa, 35, died after he bled out due to the gash in his thigh. Ochoa was taken to a local hospital shortly after police responded to a reported cockfight last Sunday in Lamont, California. Ochoa had a previous arrest for owning a cock-fighting bird.Police found five dead roosters at the scene and believe as much as $10,000 was being gambled on the fights.Knives are added to the cock-fighting roosters to make the contest more violent.Last month a man in India was killed after his champion rooster slashed his throat.The bird is said to have attacked owner Singrai Soren when he was pushing it back into the ring after it repeatedly tried to escape.The bird slit his throat with razor blades he had attached to its legs.
Source: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/rooster_revenge_cockfighting_bird_vdWgYmiTQbLmMBltVoPmxK
The tables turned at a California cockfight after a man was fatally stabbed in the... more
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The postal worker was stunned when the package moved by itself and fell to the floor. Then came the sounds of heavy panting.
Within minutes, she and co-workers had unwrapped a tightly sealed box and rescued a 4-month-old puppy that a Minneapolis woman tried to mail to Georgia.
"It's just crazy," said Minneapolis Police Sgt. Angela Dodge. The air holes the woman punched in the box were covered up with mailing tape, and the priority mail trip would have taken at least two days, she said. "It was supposed to be a birthday gift for a family member. It would have been kind of traumatizing to get a dead puppy,'' Dodge said. "If you don't identify it so that it can be handled properly, it goes into the cargo hold of an airplane. It gets 40 below in those cargo planes that get up 40,000 feet. And there was no food or water. Puppies can't go for long periods without food or water."
The dog would have been dead on delivery, agreed police spokesman Sgt. William Palmer. "I've been doing this for 17 years. This is a new one on me."
The woman, Stacey Champion, declined to tell police why she decided to mail the puppy, Dodge said.
Champion paid $22 to send the black poodle-Schnauzer mix puppy named Guess to Georgia via priority mail, said Thompson Ojoyeyi, supervisor at the Loring Station post office. The worker who accepted the package asked all the standard questions: Any perishables, liquids, hazardous materials?
Champion said no, but then she cautioned postal workers to "be careful, be careful" as they handled the box because "it was so delicate," Ojoyeyi said.
On the outside of the package Champion wrote "This is for your 11th birthday. It's what you wanted," he said. She also told the clerk that if sounds came from the package, not to worry, it just contained a toy robot, Ojoyeyi added.
When the box began moving and making noise, workers called a postal inspector -- the Postal Service's enforcement arm -- and got permission to open the package, Ojoyeyi said.
Guess "was so happy to get out," Ojoyeyi said. "We gave him water and he drank so fast."
"How could someone do this kind of thing?" he said. "For us, it was very unusual."
The Postal Service will ship some live animals such as bees, certain small and harmless cold-blooded animals, chicks and ducklings. But sending dogs and cats through the mail is a definite no, he said.
Champion was cited for misdemeanor animal cruelty and has 10 days to appeal. The dog is now at the city's animal control facility. If Champion declines or loses her appeal, Guess would go up for adoption. So far, Champion hasn't notified authorities that she wants the dog back, Dodge said.
She did, however, return to the post office to demand a refund for the $22 she paid to mail the puppy. She also wanted a small amount of money she had attached to a makeshift dog collar returned to her.
Postal workers nixed the refund and told her to contact law enforcement about the collar currency. "We asked her, don't you want to know about your puppy? But she said no. She just wanted her money back," Ojoyeyi said. "It's just weird to mail an animal like that in a package all covered up. We don't know what she was thinking about."
http://www.startribune.com/local/115011544.html
update
The Minneapolis woman who tried to mail a puppy wants him back.
"I'm just appalled," said Mitzi Carroll, who learned about the puppy's plight from a TV broadcast in Georgia, where she lives. "And now she wants it back? Really? I have a strong problem with that. How do you put a puppy in a box and try to mail it? That's just animal cruelty."
That's exactly what Minneapolis authorities thought. They charged Stacey Champion, 39, with animal cruelty and impounded Guess, a 4-month-old poodle-Schnauzer mix that postal officials said likely would have been DOA at its Georgia destination.
As word of the pup's discovery in a sealed box with no air holes spread across the country, concerned animal lovers began calling and e-mailing city officials with requests to adopt the black dog.
But Carroll, who already has adopted two dogs and three cats, and other would-be rescuers will have to wait for the outcome of an administrative hearing Monday, at which Champion is scheduled to plead for the dog's return.
That request itself is a bit unusual. "In the four years that I've been here, we never had a person appeal after an animal was impounded because of animal cruelty," said Dan Niziolek, manager for Minneapolis' Animal Care and Control. Of course, city officials can't remember ever handling a case in which someone tried to send a puppy through the mail, either.
In appealing the case, Champion had to pay about $250 in fees for the city to kennel and care for the puppy. If she loses her case before the administrative hearing officer, the puppy would be put up for adoption or she could take her case to the Court of Appeals, Niziolek said. But Champion would have to pay the city $15 a day for the puppy's care until her case was resolved.
The hearing is set for 11 a.m. Monday at City Hall, Room 314, said city spokesman Matt Laible.
Champion also needs to resolve the criminal case for animal cruelty in Hennepin County District Court. Even if she wins the puppy back during her appeal, a judge could restrict her ownership of animals, Niziolek said.
Champion didn't return calls asking about her plans for Monday's hearing.
"I would like to be at that hearing. I really would," said Sally Shortridge, who is outraged over the idea that an adult woman who put a puppy in the mail might regain custody.
"I have nieces and nephews at 12 and 14 who would know much better," she said. "She shouldn't get that poor little puppy back."The postal worker was stunned when the package moved by itself and fell to the floor.... more
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With a body built like an angora sweater, Borneo's car key-sized Hardwicke's woolly bat has made a comfortable home for itself inside a compromised location:
The blades of a carnivorous pitcher plant.
According to research by Ulmar Grafe, an associate professor at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam, the woolly bat's decided to forgo the whole "roosting upside-down in a cave or vampire pad" thing, and instead takes refuge inches away from the sticky digestive sap found at the depths of the pitcher plant's prey-trapping cavity.
Rather than snack on its tiny tenant, the plant chows down on the bat's nutrient-rich dung—a rare treat in the nitrogen-poor jungles of Borneo.
For its symbiotic part, the landlord provides the woolly winged rodent safe haven from predators and ectoparasites that typically loiter where bat's hang.
Nepenthes rafflesiana, also known as Raffle's Pitcher-Plant, evidently doesn't mind being used as a toilet; in fact, Raffle's restroom may owe its very life to the bat's generous booty. The Raffle's species captures far less prey than its planty peers, and possesses little by way of insect-wooing juju, making it unfit for survival in the book of jungle law. Proving there's something out there for everybody, reports theorize the flesh-eating plant may have evolved specifically to feed on the woolly little guy's guano.
While there's much to learn about cohabitation and tolerance in this odd example from Mother Nature, readers are expressly dissuaded from paying rent with anything other than cash or check.
http://www.takepart.com/news/2011/01/27/carnivorous-plants-tiny-bats-make-crappy-tenantsWith a body built like an angora sweater, Borneo's car key-sized Hardwicke's... more
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A furious hamster took on two Russian men. That rodents surely have lots of guts.
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A 65-year-old Pacolet Mills woman is accused of hanging and burning a 1-year-old pit bull after the animal chewed her Bible.
Miriam Fowler Smith, of 410 John Worthy Road, Pacolet Mills, is charged with ill treatment of animals in general, torture, according to an arrest warrant. Smith's nephew told officers he left the animal at the home he shared with his aunt during the recent winter weather. After returning, he could not find the dog, named Diamond, and he assumed she had broken the chain that kept her on the home's front porch, according to a report filed by a Spartanburg County environmental enforcement officer.
The man later told officers his aunt admitted to killing the animal, calling it a “devil” dog, and authorities were called to investigate.
After officers responded to the home, the woman told them she killed the dog because it had chewed her Bible and she feared for the safety of neighborhood children.
Officers found the dog's body, which had been partially burned, lying in a pile of dried grass. An orange extension cord had been tied tightly around the dog's neck and in its mouth.
http://www.goupstate.com/article/20110124/ARTICLES/110129857/1088/sports?Title=Woman-accused-of-hanging-burning-pit-bull-that-chewed-her-Bible&tc=arA 65-year-old Pacolet Mills woman is accused of hanging and burning a 1-year-old pit... more
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Few things excite the blogosphere, or human beings for that matter, as much as the discovery of a new species. Especially a strikingly beautiful mammalian one. As such, the news of the Sunda Leopard's discovery -- the "world's newest cat", according to the BBC -- wasted no time in spreading like wildfire (the proverbial kind, of course, that would in no way endanger the new cat's habitat). It's not hard to see why:
It's gorgeous -- if also a little eerily extraterrestrial in this photo:
The BBC reports on its discovery, and the unusual fact that the cat has two distinct forms:
The "newest" cat species described to science, the Sunda clouded leopard, actually exists in two distinct forms, scientists have confirmed. This big cat is so enigmatic that researchers only realised it was a new species - distinct from clouded leopards living elsewhere in Asia - in 2007. The first footage of the cat in the wild to made public was only released last year.
Genetic analysis has confirmed that the cats living in Sumatra and Borneo are indeed different forms. So that makes two more additions to the clouded leopard family, which is generally considered to be the most elusive of all of the big cats. See here:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/01/worlds-newest-cat-sunda-leopard.phpFew things excite the blogosphere, or human beings for that matter, as much as the... more
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