The coyote was limping as it approached a girl in a sand box at a public park - but it was still dangerous. It snapped its jaws on the girl's buttocks and her nanny had to pry the toddler from the wild animal. Less than a week later, a coyote in a
A baby sitter confronted a coyote Wednesday that wandered into a Temecula home, according to the Department of Fish and Game. The encounter is the latest in a string of attacks on children across Southern California in the past week -- and it's raising
Two coyotes are dead and officers are hunting others after closing a Chino Hills, Calif. park where children have been bitten or threatened on at least seven occasions since last July.
Residents of one Dallas neighborhood said they want something done about two dogs that have attacked people twice in less than a month. Both dog attacks happened in the Preston Hollow neighborhood. The most recent attack came Saturday night, after the
A shark believed to be a great white killed a 66-year-old swimmer with a single, giant bite across both legs Friday as the man trained with a group of triathletes, authorities and witnesses said.
Two recent reports on wolf-human interactions
conclude that attacks by healthy wild wolves
do occur but are rare and unusual events despite
growing numbers of wolves worldwide. Both
reports also state that there has not been a person
killed by wolves
Parents have stopped their children from going to school for fear of being attacked by elephants.
They now want the Kenya Wildlife Service to intervene and ensure that the animals do not encroach on their farms.
Those interviewed said the animals
The reported mountain lion attack Saturday on an ice fisherman at Sheridan Lake could be a sign of more serious problems to come with the big cats, state Rep. Betty Olson of Prairie City said Monday. But Dr. Sharon Seneczko, a Custer veterinarian who hea
TWENTY chickens, a goose, a rabbit and a cockerel have been snatched in a series of raids at an inner city farm in London's deprived East End.Intruders have targeted Stepping Stones City Farm in Stepney in a spate of hits which have also included arson at
A Lee's Summit lawmaker and a Buckner couple are teaming up to pass legislation that would toughen penalties against owners of dogs who attack.Steve and Kristi McBee's lives were changed forever last September.
Janet was a female elephant born in 1965. She had been taken from the jungles of Southeastern Asia. Stripped from her mother and extended family, she was ultimately shipped to the United States. After arrival, she was put to work in the circus, and it
The number of cats being shot by air guns has almost doubled in the past two years despite new laws to tackle the problem, says the RSPCA. There were 11 incidents in January 2006, compared to 20 in January 2008. But the RSPCA says this is only the tip of
SUTHERLAND Shire Council is to introduce new DNA technology to help identify dogs involved in attacks on people or other animals. The move will help overcome problems experienced by council rangers who are notified of an attack but can't prove the offence
SPCA may euthanize pit bull, puppies. Blind and alone, 38-year-old Susan Magee was losing a fight for her life against a bull mastiff and a pit bull that had turned in an inexplicable moment from pets to enraged attackers.
