Tag: Dogs
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The Week in Animal News: Cheetah-Dog Friendship, Robotic Animals from Old Computers and More
A cheetah and a yellow lab at Busch Gardens have been friends since they were little, an artist makes sweet robotic animals from e-waste and more.
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Cheetah and Dog Celebrate One Year of Friendship
Cats and dogs are usually thought of as obvious enemies -- but for one young cheetah and his canine companion, life as friends has never been better.
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DogVacay Is the Air BnB for Canine Friends
Collaborative consumption just took another big leap, this time into helping us find caring places to keep our dogs while we're traveling.
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Most Popular Articles of December: Best DIY Gadgets, Pigs Using iPads, and More
From the best DIY gadget projects of the year, to pigs playing with iPads, and fighting fracking, here are the hottest stories of December.
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The Week in Animal News: The Return of the Wooly Mammoth, Ziplining Bull Dog, and More
Scientists are close to reviving the extinct wooly mammoth through cloning. We also have a bulldog ziplining to a treehouse, a tiger killed for its whiskers, and more.
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Green Gift Guide: The Animal Lover
From sushi cat toys to adopting a lemur to an award-winning film documenting colony collapse disorder, find a gift for your animal lover right here.
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The Week in Animal News: Man Kills Entire Pelican Colony, Sharks at Golf Course, and More (Slideshow)
The arrival of thousands of pelicans could annoy just about anyone, but few resort to a mass killing to deal with the "problem." That's what one Minnesota farmer did this week, and he now faces fines of $15,000 and six months in
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The Week in Animal News: Surfers Save Shark, Skinned Alive for Fake Uggs, and More (Slideshow)
It's been a good week for sharks -- a baby great white was rescued by Venice beach surfers, the world's largest shark sanctuary was declared, and faux shark fin soup may be catching on.
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The Week in Pictures: Camping Trailer is also a Boat, Cats Nap in TVs, and More (Slideshow)
Wouldn't it be nice if you could just take your car from road to lake? Well now you can, and while camping to boot: This wild design morphs a trailer from a tent into a boat.
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Old TVs, Suitcases and VCRs Upcycled into Vintage Pet Products
Design firm AtomicAttic loves vintage, and vintage plus the urge to create new things is the perfect recipe for upcycling. Their most interesting work is made for pets. In Miles and Aimee's workshop, old television
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Dog Discovered Living Alone Atop Mount Kilimanjaro
Every year, over a thousand hikers make the grueling trek up to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak, for a chance to gaze over its stunning vistas -- but at least one such traveller has apparently decided to
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Who Would Steal Spot? Pet Thefts Are On The Rise
My beloved dog, Betsy, has been taken from me on three occasions. Twice ruffians took her when she was tied outside of a café; and a well-intentioned Whole Food's staffer took her, thinking Betsy was abandoned outside her store. I
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Adorable Puppy Gets a New Home in an Old Fridge
I'm a little late posting this, but it's just as irresistible as when the pictures first came out: an old refrigerator recycled into a dog house for a puppy that had nowhere to sleep. Inhabitat reports that the Y-town folks in
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Stray Puppies Being Cooked Alive in Eastern China
Every day in China, countless dogs are cooked and eaten -- part of a culinary tradition that dates back thousands of years. Rarely, however, has the grim reality of the cruelties these animals face been so horrifically
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Helmsley Money Set-Back for Dog Charities
Stunned headlines followed news that Leona Helmsley's dog, Trouble, became a millionare in her own right after the "Queen of Mean" left her pet $12 million in her will.
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Hunters Gun Down 190 Stray Dogs in Kosovo
Kosovo's capital city, Pristina, has a dog problem. Throughout the city, roving packs of stray canines scour the streets, occasionally attacking humans, many of whom live in fear of the feral animals. Last year, after an infant was
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What My Puppy Taught Me About Being an Omnivore
The natural instincts driving puppies can barely be hemmed by us humans, even if we think we know better. Take eating, for example. Puppies chew on everything. A hierarchy evolves: things that are fun to rip and tear but must
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High Levels of Flame Retardants Found in Dogs
Researchers at Indiana University have found flame retardants in the blood of pet dogs at levels five to ten times higher than typically found in humans. Could dogs be the canary in the coal mine for how accumulating polybrominated
