ANCHORAGE, Ala. (AP) — A moose wandered into a hospital building in Alaska’s largest city Monday — and Stephanie Hupton was ready to capture the visit with her phone camera. Hupton works in billing at a physical therapy office inside a building attached to Alaska Regional Hospital in Anchorage. When a patient mentioned security staffers were […]
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FCAS Pets of the Week
FARMINGTON — Franklin County Animal Shelter has announced the Pets of the Week. Dog of the week Smudge is a 2-year-old male Collie/Lab mix. He’s very energetic and playful and needs a structured home that can provide him with the training he needs to improve his manners. Smudge is looking for a home with kids […]
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The Big Number: 6,457,534 animal-related injuries at ERs
It took lions and tigers and bears to frighten the “Wizard of Oz” characters, but today those fears might very well be brought on by spiders, insects, hornets, wasps and bees. They were the source of more than half — 54 percent — of the nearly 6.5 million injuries from the animal kingdom that sent […]
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Wildfire survivors
Christine Poje, who escaped the Camp Fire with her four children when the family fled their new home in Paradise, California last month, feeds the new family pet, a 5-week old puppy named Pele at their new La Crosse, Wisconsin apartment. The family rescued the dog the day of the fire. (Peter Thomson/La Crosse Tribune […]
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Franklin County Animal Shelter Pets of the Week
FARMINGTON — Franklin County Animal Shelter is featuring Fiona and Mr. Bean as the Pets of the Week. Fiona is a 4-year-old female Staffy mix who barks a lot in her kennel, but has a heart of gold. This big girl has excellent leash manners and loves to ride in the car, go on long […]
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Surge in injured owls tied to abundance of their favorite food – rodents
YORK — Wildlife rehabilitation centers in Maine are seeing a significant increase in the number of owls that have been injured by vehicles and believe the spike stems from the boom in the state’s population of squirrels and other rodents. In the past six weeks, the Center for Wildlife in York admitted 12 injured owls, roughly […]
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A Christmas story from Tommy's Felines
GREENE — The cats and kittens of Tommy’s Feral Feline Friends, just like an orphaned child, have been disappointed year after year with no gifts of joy under their trees. Sadly, because of limited resources there is never enough funding for the toys of joy that bring so much happiness to the hearts of Tommy’s […]
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FCAS announces Pets of the Week
FARMINGTON — Franklin County Animal Shelter is featuring Miley and Gordon as its Pets of the Week. Miley is a 6-year-old female Rhodesian Ridgeback/Lab mix. She is a sweet and steady girl who would love to find her forever home. Miley would prefer a home with no cats, and she’d love to do a meet-and-greet […]
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Why do we love pets? An expert explains.
Ours is a pet-loving culture. Researchers spend a lot of time exploring what has become known as “human-animal interactions,” and the pet industry spends a lot of money promoting what it prefers to call the “human-animal bond.” But that concept might have been laughable a century ago, when animals served a more utilitarian role in […]
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Midcoast Humane Society to hold holiday adoption event
BRUNSWICK– Midcoast Humane will host its annual Home for the Holidays special adoption event on Dec. 15 and 16 at the shelter’s Brunswick Campus at 30 Range Road. The adoption event will feature more than four dozen puppies, as well as kittens, dogs, cats, and small animals for adoption. The event will be held Saturday, […]