Missing Labrador Returns Home After 5 Years

March 16th, 2010

Telegraph:

Iggy was an 18-month-old puppy when he disappeared in August 2005.

Brierley and her brother Jasper, now 14, were devastated. Their mum and dad Karen and Eric believed he had been stolen.

But the family, from Balladen, in Rawtenstall, Lancs, are celebrating after Iggy was spotted wandering the streets in Leicester and taken to a vet.

The vet discovered Iggy was fitted with a microchip and he has now been reunited with Brierley and her family.

Freedom Of Information Laws Used To Target Universities To Reveal Details Of Their Animal Experiments

March 16th, 2010

Guardian:

A convicted animal rights activist is using freedom of information laws to force universities to reveal details of their animal experiments, raising fears that scientists involved could suffer renewed intimidation.

The requests for information, which have been sent to every university in Britain, ask for details of facilities and laboratories licensed for such experiments, as well as breeding centres and a list of different animals used, by species…

Three More Rare Tigers Sick At Chinese Zoo Where 11 Starved To Death

March 16th, 2010

Pennlive:

BEIJING – State media say Chinese zookeepers are struggling to save three seriously ill tigers at a cash-strapped zoo where 11 animals starved to death recently.

The three tigers are shedding fur, had lost their appetites and were listless, the official Xinhua News Agency reported late Monday…

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