This is the Minnie who was shot and killed a week ago Friday, allegedly shot as she stood by the side of the road by a hunter from Cobourg packing a muzzle-loader, two days before the muzzle-loader deer hunt came to an end.

In an editorial this week, Sarah Palin admitted concern over changes in our climate, and a need for Alaska to "respond to the coastal erosion, thawing permafrost and retreating sea ice that affect Alaska's communities and infrastructure."

Chef Anthony Bourdain quipped that it was OK for humans to kill and eat animals because we've been designed to chase down "smaller and stupider creatures." Never mind that cows and pigs, two animals that are slaughtered by the millions for food....

Last week a kitten clung onto a car axle for dear life as the vehicle sped down the interstate, and this week two kittens played real-life Frogger as they dashed across the Clearview Parkway in New Orleans.

25 DOGS PUT DOWN DUE TO CRUELTY FROM A MAN TRYING TO BREED A "SUPER BREED" OF DOGS. Palm Beach county officials have shut down a dog breeding operation run by a man who was trying to develop what he called a "super breed."

In China, chefs have figured out a way to keep a fish alive as it gets deep fried and then waits to be eaten.

The book and TV movie A Dog Named Christmas have spurred a national campaign encouraging people to take in foster animals over the week between Christmas and the New Year. The "Foster a Lonely Pet" project is a great idea, but unless you're also a very

Tell Brevard-Seminole State Attorney's Office to levy every pertinent weapons and animal cruelty charge against Bob Lester, and to seek maximum jail times and fines for shooting Harry four times. (Harry survived!

Other major cities have Police Units specifically for dealing with Animal Abuse. Since living in Austin I have been horrified by this cities lack of resources concerning this problem. If you call the police most times they tell you there is nothing

High country farmer David Wightman is on a mission to prove the mysterious black panther that reportedly roams the hills of Mid-Canterbury is not a figment of people's overactive imaginations - he's built a trap to catch the elusive creature.