Giant Hamster: Pictures Of Caplin Rous The Pet Capybara At Home In Texas

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Pride Of Lions Rescued From Eastern European Zoo Touch Down In Britain

Telegraph:

The organisers of the operations at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park near Doncaster said the attraction will be a welcome relief from the conditions the big cats have endured in Romania.

The converted Jet2.com Boeing 737 carrying the lions touched down at Robin Hood Airport, near Doncaster, at lunchtime and the 13 well packed animals were then carefully loaded on to a specialist £700,000 elephant-carrying lorry borrowed for the day from Woburn Safari Park…

500 Join Facebook Site To Find Dog Killer

Enfield Independent:

Nearly 500 people have signed up to a Facebook group condemning the savage killing of a dog in Winchmore Hill.

The site called, “Can you help indentify the Winchmore Hill dog killer?” is part of a growing community campaign to find the man responsible for the vicious beating…

RSPCA Appeal After Staff Rescue Animal At St Ives, Harden

Telegraph & Argus:

RSPCA officials are appealing for help after a dog was thrown out of a car and abandoned at a beauty spot.

It happened at St Ives Park, near Harden yesterday lunchtime.

A builder walking his dog saw a car with two men in it pull up in front of the story chair area and shove the dog out of a door before speeding away…

Blaenavon Woman Jailed After Dog Injunction

BBC News:

A woman who breached an injunction banning her from keeping dogs at her home has been handed a prison sentence.

Nicola Hope, 36, of Blaenavon, Torfaen, was sentenced to 14 days in jail by Blackwood magistrates…

Japan Angry Over Sea Shepherd Attack

BBC News:

Japanese officials have reacted angrily to an attack on one of its whaling ships by Sea Shepherd anti-whaling activists in the Antarctic…

Ban The Sale Of Dolphin Meat – Petition

The Petition Site:

Japan has a new Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety, Ms. Mizuho Fukushima. At a recent press conference held in Tokyo, Ms. Fukushima agreed to investigate whether eating dolphin and whale meat causes mercury poisoning in humans.  

Now a study has been released that shows that residents in the fishing village of Taiji have 10 times the normal amount of mercury in their system.  Please join us in asking Ms. Fukushima to ban the sale of poisonous dolphin and whale meat…