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Germany's Abandoned Dog Crisis
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, abandoned, dogs, Germany, environment, protection, suffering )

Cher
- 83 days ago - thenational.ae
Tens of thousands of impoverished pet owners have been bidding a distraught farewell to their Alsatians and Dachshunds at animal shelters across Germany this year in a poignant illustration of how the worst economic downturn since the 1930s is biting
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Drunk Badger Disrupts Traffic
Animals  (tags: police, Germany, badger, cherries, traffic, motorists )

Raffi
- 159 days ago - biologicaldiversity.org
A badger in Germany got so drunk on over-ripe cherries it staggered into the middle of a road and refused to budge, police said on Wednesday. A motorist called police near the central town of Goslar to report a dead badger on a road -- only for
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Spider-Smuggler Held in Germany
Animals  (tags: germany, wildlife, arachnids, trapdoor spiders, smuggled )

Jacquelin
- 275 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
German customs officials have detained a man who was trying to smuggle more than 160 large trapdoor spiders into the country from Switzerland. The Swiss driver was also carrying 45 boxes of cockroaches as food for his eight-legged cargo, they said.
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Moose and Wolves Get Highway Crossings in Germany
Animals  (tags: germany, wildlife, wild animals, wolves, moose, highway crossing, endangered, extinction, habitat, humans, protection )

Jacquelin
- 276 days ago - projo.com
Bridges for migrating wolves and moose will be built over Germany's no-speed limit autobahn highways near Berlin as part of a wildlife corridor to Poland, officials said today. Brandenburg, the state surrounding the German capital, wants the 200-kilome
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Parrot Breeding Program a Success ~ Video
Animals  (tags: germany, animals, birds, Spix-Ara, breeding program, successful )

Jacquelin
- 283 days ago - bigpondnews.com
'Frieda' is not just a parrot like any other parrot. The young bird belongs to a Brazilian breed called Spix-Ara, which has become very rare in the last ten years. For her breeder in Brandenburg near the German capital Berlin 'Frieda' is a huge succes
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Baby Ape Takes Flight -- Monkey Business Class
Animals  (tags: uk, germany, zoolife, wildlife, wild animals, apes, bonobo, endangered, extinction, protection )

Jacquelin
- 327 days ago - edition.cnn.com
(CNN) -- A baby ape born in the UK is settling into a new life in a German zoo after flying from Birmingham to Frankfurt -- monkey business class.The three-month old male bonobo -- who is to be fostered by a family of German apes after being rejected by h
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German Polar Bear Flocke Gets Zoo Company
Animals  (tags: germany, zoolife, wildlife, wild animals, polar bear, flocke, new companion, from russia, endangered, extinction, protection )

Jacquelin
- 343 days ago - boston.com
NUREMBERG, Germany--Nuremberg's celebrity polar bear cub, Flocke, has a new friend: a Russian bear. The city's zoo says it introduced the male polar bear Wednesday to 1-year-old Flocke, who was raised by zookeepers after her mother rejected her. The
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Jelous Man Bites Part of Cats Ear Off ~ Translated
Animals  (tags: germany, animals, cat, owner, bite ear off, abuse, AnimalCruelty )

Jacquelin
- 352 days ago - bild.de
Poor Garfield his Owner in a fit of jelousy bit part of his Ear of. The drunk had an fight with his Girlfriend, 'cause she always pays more attention to the Cat, so he bit the Cats ear off and hit his Girlfiend, he blames it on a blackout.
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Berlin Opens Soup Kitchen for Pets
Animals  (tags: germany, animals, pets, dogs, economy, AnimalWelfare, humans )

Jacquelin
- 352 days ago - abc.net.au
In a sign of the times in Europe's biggest economy, poodles, terriers and sheep dogs are queuing up for rations at Berlin's first soup kitchen for pets. The venue is a disused night school in the former communist east Berlin, where the smell of straw,
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Man Climbs Into Knut's Enclosure Because He Thought Polar Bear Was Lonely
Animals  (tags: germany, zoolife, wildlife, wild animals, polar bear, knut, man, climbing into enclosure, endangered, extinction, humans, habitat, protection )

Jacquelin
- 358 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
A man who climbed into the enclosure of Knut the polar bear on Monday escaped unharmed after zookeepers distracted Berlin's celebrity bear with a piece of meat, police said. The man said that he thought the polar bear was sad and lonely, and that he wante
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Confused Man Jumps Into the Enclosure of Polar Bear Knut ~ Translated
Animals  (tags: germany, zoolife, wildlife, wild animals, polar bear, knut, confused man, enclosure )

Jacquelin
- 358 days ago - de.news.yahoo.com
An apparently mentally confused man into the enclosure of the famous polar bear Knut in Berlin jumped. According to police figures, the 37-year-old Cottbus luck and was not injured, keepers could Knut with a bovine leg distracted. As a motive for his trip
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Rare Bird Born in Germany
Animals  (tags: germany, wildlife, birds, spix maccaw, rare, birth, endangered, extinction, protection )

Jacquelin
- 358 days ago - news24.com
Berlin - A German has succeeded in breeding a rare macaw that is believed to be extinct in the wild. Frieda is the name of the female Spix's Macaw that was born nearly a month ago in Schoeneiche near Berlin. It is the only offspring of the threate
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Over a Thousand Parakeets From Berlin Apartment Freed ~Translated
Animals  (tags: germany, animals, pets, birds, patakeets, 1000, freed, habitat, AnimalWelfare, protection )

Jacquelin
- 364 days ago - de.news.yahoo.com
The Berlin Animal Welfare Association and the Veterinary Office have made an apartment in Berlin's Spandau district of about 1300 wave parakeets exempt. As the competent Veterinary Office announced were in the first two-room apartment is still about 400 b
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VIDEO: Big Mamma Hippo Shows Off Adorable New Calf Paula in Her First Public Outing
Animals  (tags: germany, zoolife, wildlife, wild animals, hippo, baby, outing, endangered, extinction, humans, protection )

Jacquelin
- 364 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Shifting the baby weight after a pregnancy can be tough and judging by this picture it looks like Kathi the hippopotamus is struggling a bit. Nevertheless things seem to be going just swimmingly for the mother who showed off her two-week-old calf on her f
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Baby Hippo Born in German Zoo ~ Video
Animals  (tags: germany, zoolife, wildlife, wild animals, hippo, baby, endangered, extinction, protection )

Jacquelin
- 364 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
A German zoo has introduced a two-week-old baby hippo, the first born for several years. The hippo, which has yet to be named, weighed 40 kilograms and has until now spent time only with its mother, away from the other hippos kept at Berlin zoo
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