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Animals, Crime, Poll

Update: Trainer videotaped hitting horse to be cited for animal abuse

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Here’s an update on the story that prompted last week’s poll, Animal Abuse or Necessary Technique?, about a trainer recorded hitting a horse with a plastic bat. Seventy-seven percent of respondents thought that kind of treatment was abusive, about fifteen percent weren’t sure, and nearly eight percent said it wasn’t. Dane county officials will cite…

Animals, Beautiful Whitewater

Beautiful Whitewater

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Pale horse in green pasture Here’s a picture of a horse grazing in Whitewater. It’s just a horse photo. No one describes pictures like that anymore, so I felt compelled to give it a stuffier title. It’s still a horse photo. If I were to call it Cavalo amarelo em pasto verde, people in Sao…

Animals, Nature

Six more weeks of winter

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Here’s a recording of Punxsutawney Phil’s 2012 prediction that six more weeks of winter await us. I know that there are local groundhogs in the forecasting biz, but here at FW only the most reputable, established, and celebrated groundhog will do. That’s Phil. video platform video management video solutions video player Okay, for those who…

Animals, Conservation

The Amazing San Diego Zoo Condor Cam

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Live from the San Diego Zoo, it’s a condor cam. CONDOR CAM LINK Here’s the SD Zoo’s description of what’s waiting online: You Are Watching. . . … Sisquoc and Shatash take turns sitting in their nest incubating an egg! Because every California condor egg is so important, their real egg has been removed for…

Animals

Dog found alive four days after Montana avalanche

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A small, happy result after a greater tragedy: BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – A dog that was feared dead after he was swept away in a weekend avalanche that killed his owner showed up four days later at the Montana motel where his owners had stayed the night before going backcountry skiing. Via Eau Claire Leader-Telegram.