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Pets & Wildlife

TV reality star goes to the dogs

September 22, 2017, 6:00am Life

With its bright pink exterior and white picket fence, the Vanderpump Dog Rescue Center, one of entrepreneur and reality TV star Lisa Vanderpump’s latest ventures, is hard to miss, especially if the “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” costar and her husband’s white Rolls-Royce is parked out front. Read story

A male silverback gorilla named Mokolo in the Primate, Cat & Aquatics sections of the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo in Cleveland. Cleveland Metroparks Zoo received a female gorilla named Fredrika from Florida’s Zoo Miami and a female gorilla named Kebi Moya from the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Powell, Ohio, selected to join Mokolo, in the hope of creating a new troop.

Zoo hopes news gorillas will form ‘troop’ as in the wild

A male silverback gorilla named Mokolo in the Primate, Cat & Aquatics sections of the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo in Cleveland. Cleveland Metroparks Zoo received a female gorilla named Fredrika from Florida’s Zoo Miami and a female gorilla named Kebi Moya from the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Powell, Ohio, selected to join Mokolo, in the hope of creating a new troop.

September 21, 2017, 10:05am Life

Cleveland Metroparks Zoo has received two female gorillas from other zoos in an effort to create a new troop mirroring those in the wild. Read story

A photo provided by the Marine Mammal Stranding Center shows a harbor seal whose rear flipper had to be amputated after being struck by a boat. The seal has recovered at New Jersey’s Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine, N.J., and is headed to an upstate New York aquarium. The center has been caring for the seal since it was found wounded on a beach in Barnegat Light on Long Beach Island earlier this year.

Seal with amputated flipper headed to Niagara Falls aquarium

A photo provided by the Marine Mammal Stranding Center shows a harbor seal whose rear flipper had to be amputated after being struck by a boat. The seal has recovered at New Jersey’s Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine, N.J., and is headed to an upstate New York aquarium. The center has been caring for the seal since it was found wounded on a beach in Barnegat Light on Long Beach Island earlier this year.

September 21, 2017, 9:30am Life

A harbor seal whose rear flipper had to be amputated after being struck by a boat has recovered and is headed to an upstate New York aquarium. Read story

Everybody Has a Story: Kitty proves it’s a survivor after encounter with car

September 20, 2017, 6:00am Clark County Life

Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012, was a glorious sunny day here in Vancouver. Read story

Ivory dealer goes undercover to help bust wildlife smuggler

September 19, 2017, 10:00am Northwest

A Washington ivory and antiquities dealer will serve six months in prison after pleading guilty to federal smuggling charges four years ago and then going undercover to help authorities prosecute a former Canadian wildlife smuggler. Read story

A photo provided by The Cincinatti Zoo shows a 29-year-old western lowland silverback gorilla named Mshindi, who was recently added to the exhibit from the Louisville Zoo. Mshindi is the first gorilla to be added to the exhibit since the 2016 death of Harambe who was killed after a boy climbed into his enclosure.

Cincinnati Zoo welcomes new gorilla a year after Harambe

A photo provided by The Cincinatti Zoo shows a 29-year-old western lowland silverback gorilla named Mshindi, who was recently added to the exhibit from the Louisville Zoo. Mshindi is the first gorilla to be added to the exhibit since the 2016 death of Harambe who was killed after a boy climbed into his enclosure.

September 17, 2017, 2:37pm Life

A new gorilla is making himself at home at the Cincinnati Zoo. Read story

A six-toed cat at the Hemingway Home and Museum in Key West, Fla., in April.

Hemingway’s six-toed cats survive Irma, still have nine lives

A six-toed cat at the Hemingway Home and Museum in Key West, Fla., in April.

September 15, 2017, 6:10am Life

As day broke on Monday, authorities were only beginning to assess the damage Hurricane Irma’s brute force wrought on the delicate archipelago that makes up the Florida Keys. Read story

Geordi La Corgi takes in the view from the rooftop of a garage overlooking Playa Vista.

How to make your pet Instagram-famous

Geordi La Corgi takes in the view from the rooftop of a garage overlooking Playa Vista.

September 15, 2017, 6:05am Life

There are all kinds of jobs today that wouldn’t be possible without social media. One surprisingly lucrative gig: posting pet photos on Instagram. Read story

Fat pets can be cute, but obesity can cause serious health problems.

Help your pet take off the pounds

Fat pets can be cute, but obesity can cause serious health problems.

September 15, 2017, 6:02am Health Wire

Next time you’re at the vet, you need to look your vet in the eye and say: “Doc, give it to me straight. Read story

Rescuers save entangled whale off of Cape Cod

September 13, 2017, 9:21am Life

A Massachusetts marine science center says it has disentangled a humpback whale off of Cape Cod. Read story