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Police Operation in Yorkshire Targets Poachers
Offbeat  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, poachers, environment, wildlife, killing, protection )

Cher
- 18 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
A police operation focusing on combating poaching and rural crime is proving to be a big success in the Selby area of Yorkshire. Driven by the local police working with local farmers and residents, the operation targeted poachers and travelling criminals
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German Hunters Warn of ' Raccoon Invasion'
Offbeat  (tags: n hunting, killing, cruelty, german hunting assoc, racoons, racoon doggs )

Simone
- 18 days ago - en.rian.ru
Raccoon and raccoon dog populations have been rapidly growing in Germany, raising concerns that the invasive species threaten other indigenous animals, the German Hunting Association said on its website.
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Entrepreneur Creates 'Humane' Device to Electrocute Lobsters
Offbeat  (tags: animals, killing, lobsters, electrocute )

Cher
- 30 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
A British entrepreneur has created a machine that can kill a lobster humanely in less than one second - by electrocution.
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Bees Fight to Death Over Females! Video!
Offbeat  (tags: animals, bees, killing, mating, males, females, environment )

Cher
- 39 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
It is rare for any species of animal to regularly kill its own in combat. However, male Dawson's bees, one of the world's largest bee species, are so aggressive that they kill each other en masse in a bid to mate with females.
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Jonathan Safran Foer and Eating and Killing Animals
Offbeat  (tags: animals, eating, killing, books, environment, protection )

Cher
- 42 days ago - animalrights.change.org
I haven't read Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals yet. I don't know when I will, given lack of time, but I have seen a head-spinning number of reviews of and reactions to it lately. I get the impression, from these reviews and reactions, that there
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Long Dead Grouse Gets the Last Laugh
Offbeat  (tags: abuse, abused, AnimalCruelty, animaladvocates, animalrights, animalwelfare, crime, cruelty, environment, ethics, GoodNews, habitat, humans, investigation, killed, killing, law, protection, society, wildanimals, wildlife, americans, animals, bizarre, envir )

Wolfweeps
- 68 days ago - alaskadispatch.com
An easy shot at dinner turned out to be costly for 33-year-old Rockmon Davisson of Sterling, according to Alaska Wildlife Troopers, who caught Davisson ground-sluicing a grouse on the Kenai Peninsula Monday. Two problems for Davisson: One, the grouse in
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Gymnast Put to Sleep After Breaking Leg in a Career-Ending Accident! Video!
Offbeat  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, euthanasia, racing, humour, satire, environment, protection, killing, AnimalCruelty )

Cher
- 188 days ago - animalrights.change.org
My friend Michelle, probably better known to most of you as Change.org's dedicated and intrepid Stop Genocide blogger, sent me a link to the following Onion video this morning, noting that I might appreciate it "in an odd sort of way."
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US Airways: PETA's 'End the Seal Slaughter' Billboard?
Offbeat  (tags: seals, hunt, Canada, peta, AnimalWelfare, airplanes, killing, wildlife, protection, unusual )

Cher
- 242 days ago - blog.peta.org
With the 2010 Olympics approaching, people are looking to book their travel to the Games sooner rather than later. So, we'd like to let would-be passengers know that there may be a reason (or 338,200 reasons) to skip that trip to Canada.
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VIDEO Kid Matador Kills Record 6 Bulls
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, child matador, bullfighting, killing, video )

Beatrice
- 328 days ago - newser.com
An 11-year-old Mexican bullfighter has broken a world record by killing six young bulls in a single bloody spectacle, reports the BBC. "I'm happy to have achieved this great victory," boasted the boy as he left the ring in Merida yesterday. The controvers
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Deadly U.S. Attack 'Serious Aggression'
Offbeat  (tags: US attach, Iraq, Syria, killing, aggression )

Eduardo
- 419 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
U.S. military helicopters launched an extremely rare attack Sunday on Syrian territory close to the border with Iraq, killing eight people in a strike the government in Damascus condemned as "serious aggression."
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Sarah Palin's Purse: "Real Women Hunt Moose"
Offbeat  (tags: animals, killing, suffering, cruelty, palin, idiot, bizarre, elections, candidates, republicans, losers, lol )

Tom
- 437 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
Sarah Palin was photographed as she walked across the tarmac to meet John McCain after arriving in Allentown, Pa on Wednesday. A closer look at the cloth tote bag she had draped on her forearm reveals a moose head and the phrase "Real Women Hunt Moose."
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Obese German Crushes His Wife to Death During Fight - Germany
Offbeat  (tags: germany, obese, husband, wife, death, sitting, killing, weird, bizarre )

Chrissy
- 680 days ago - news.com.au
AN OBESE German man has been jailed for sitting on his wife during an argument and crushing her so badly that she later died. German news websites are reporting the 128kg man sat on his wife's chest, breaking her ribs.
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Ex-Football Star Vick Sentenced to 23 Months
Offbeat  (tags: football star, Vick, killing, dogs, prison )

Eduardo
- 741 days ago - reuters.com
Disgraced U.S. football star Michael Vick was sentenced on Monday to 23 months in prison for his role in an illegal dogfighting ring in which he had admitted he was involved in the killing of at least eight dogs.
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Killer Pet Food Ingredients Identified
Offbeat  (tags: dogs, cats, pet food, melamine, cyanuric acid, killing, death, China, U.S )

Eduardo
- 753 days ago - newscientist.com
Melamine is an organic base for plastics and resins, and cyanuric acid is used in swimming pools. Neither has a history of toxicity. The consignments were subsequently exported to the US and added to pet food by manufacturers.
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Millionaire's Niece 'Killed Lover During Sex Game'
Offbeat  (tags: killing, sex game, British )

Eduardo
- 763 days ago - news.ninemsn.com.au
Jessica Davies, the 28-year-old niece of a multi-millionaire British politician, Quentin Davies, has admitted slashing her French lover's throat with a knife during a drunken sex game, according to police.
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