Friday, October 7th, 2011 at
3:00 pm

CHINLE, N.M. (AP) — Cindy Yurth’s house in the green-roofed housing development outside the Chinle High School is one of the few where the grass is green and cottonwood trees and Navajo willows grow healthy and leafy — providing plenty of shade for the dogs she and her husband Eric Swanson, a music teacher with [...]
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2011 at
6:00 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Giving pills to your pet may be more traumatic for you than the animal, but it doesn’t have to be. There are many ways to get the job done. You can hold a small dog or cat like a football or a baseball; wrap the cat like a burrito; try decoys [...]
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Monday, October 3rd, 2011 at
4:15 pm

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Combining her love for animals and a desire to help the elderly is what Rae Warren said has led her to take Cindy, a registered miniature horse, to nearly a dozen assisted living facilities in Kansas since the end of June. “I think it was God’s plan to put those two [...]
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Friday, September 30th, 2011 at
4:17 pm

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — State parks officials are assessing the impact of large-scale, blue-green algae blooms at Kansas lakes and reservoirs that kept people and animals out of the lakes this summer. Dangerous levels of the toxic algae prompted Kansas health officials to post advisories and warnings since May. Ron Kaufman, spokesman for the Kansas [...]
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Sunday, September 25th, 2011 at
10:15 am

INTERIOR, S.D. (AP) — As the cage door opened, black-footed ferret No. 7505 tentatively peeked his head out, looked hesitantly at the prairie dog burrow offered before him, and then rushed inside, disappearing beneath the earth of western South Dakota’s badlands. His freedom had been months in the making, but in less than a minute [...]
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