A Portland police officer managed to safely remove an aluminum soda can from the head of a frustrated skunk Tuesday morning without getting sprayed.
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Shark sighting prompts beach advisory in York
A basking shark was spotted swimming off Long Sands Beach on Monday morning, town officials say.
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Video: Watch Bubba the cat get rescued from Skowhegan tree after 2 days, 2 snowstorms
The 11-month-old cat climbed up a 30-foot-tall cedar tree Monday in Skowhegan and wouldn’t come down, despite the urgings of his owner, Christine Conte.
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New app is like Tinder … for pets
GetPet’s creator says they got the idea after seeing a stray dog on the street through a window.
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Sloth selfie
Jan Bielau-Nivus of Rome takes a selfie Sunday afternoon with “Flash,” the sloth being held by handler Catalina Vargas at the Foundation for Animal Rescue and Education’s First Natural History Exhibition at the Ramada Inn in Lewiston. Bielau-Nivus, a sloth enthusiast, was excited to take a photograph with a real sloth. Bielau-Nivus said she loves that […]
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Silicon Valley landlord rents $1,500 studio to 2 cats
The inseparable pair are living there for $1,500 a month, a good deal in the Bay Area’s super-tight housing market.
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What makes chickens happy? Nobody is quite sure
Canadian researchers launch a new study to measure the welfare of poultry.
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Fair game: Children attracted to animals, amusements
FRYEBURG — The sixth day of the 168th Fryeburg Fair on Friday featured something that was missing the first five days: sunshine. With no rain and no clouds in sight, the fair was particularly busy Friday morning, with thousands of people on the grounds by 10 a.m. For some families, the game booths were more […]
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Eva Lebel
LEWISTON — Eva M. Lebel, 84, of Auburn peacefully passed away Tuesday, Sept. 11, at St. Mary’s Hospital. She was born in Auburn on the family farm Aug. 1, 1934, a daughter of the late Pierre and Angelina (Bosse) Caron. She grew up in the Auburn area and attended local schools there. She was a graduate […]
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What the grieving mother orca tells us about how animals experience death
For many weeks, news of a mother orca carrying her dead infant through the icy waters of the Salish Sea captured the attention of many around the world. Keeping the infant afloat as best she could, the orca, named Tahlequah, also known as J35 by scientists, persisted for 17 days, before finally dropping the dead […]