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Pets & Wildlife

Rover Romp turns dog days of summer literal

August 1, 2015, 5:00pm Clark County News

RIDGEFIELD -- Budding organization Ridgefield Main Street invited a pack of people and pooches to its second Rover Romp fundraiser Saturday. Read story

Study: ‘Walking hibernation’ in polar bears really a myth

July 30, 2015, 5:00pm Life

It seems like every time we turn around, polar bears are catching a tough break. Read story

Dogs, cats too ho-hum? Try an exotic pet

July 30, 2015, 5:00pm Life

LODI, N.J. — Pet store owner Joe Averso has found a niche in downtown Lodi that he believes will set him apart from the big-box pet store competition. Read story

Cat slims from 41 pounds to sleek 19

July 30, 2015, 5:00pm Life

DALLAS — A former 41-pound cat dubbed Skinny has lost more than half of his weight to become the darling of a Dallas veterinary clinic. Read story

Donkey Ricky Bobby goes from last to first

July 30, 2015, 5:00pm Life

DECATUR, Texas — This Ricky Bobby is a real jackass. Read story

Zimbabwean baffled by foreign concern for killed lion

July 29, 2015, 5:00pm Nation & World

HARARE, Zimbabwe -- While the death of a protected lion in Zimbabwe has caused outrage in the United States -- much of it centered on the Minnesota dentist who killed the animal -- most in Zimbabwe expressed a degree of bafflement over the concern. Read story

Zimbabweans in lion hunt in court; kill was “unethical”

July 28, 2015, 5:00pm Nation & World

HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Two Zimbabweans arrested for illegally hunting a lion appeared in court Wednesday. The head of Zimbabwe's safari association said the killing was unethical and that it couldn't even be classified as a hunt, since the lion killed by an American dentist was lured into the kill zone. Read story

Obama ivory crackdown leaves open California loopholes

July 27, 2015, 5:00pm Nation & World

SAN FRANCISCO — Ivory dealers in San Francisco's Chinatown stood in their shop doors besides store windows full of carved ivory tusks and trinkets this week, unfazed by President Barack Obama's announcement of proposed rules that the White House says go as far as the administration can go toward banning… Read story

Deaths of 18 whales puzzle scientists

July 27, 2015, 5:00pm Northwest

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Researchers may never solve the recent deaths of 18 endangered whales whose carcasses were found floating near Alaska's Kodiak Island, a scientist working on the case said Monday. Read story

Press paws on this treadmill for animals

July 24, 2015, 5:00pm Clark County News

Koko, a 13-year-old Lhasa apso, arrived for his 9:45 a.m. appointment on Friday. He walked gingerly into the room, his sandy-colored haunches twisting and shivering unnaturally with every step. Read story