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Tiger's Basketball-Sized Hairball Removed By Surgeons (VIDEO)
Offbeat  (tags: goodnews, tiger, 400 pound, basketball-size, hairball, veterinary, surgery, video )

BarbKnigh
- 6 hours ago - huffingtonpost.com
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- It's not unusual for a cat to get a hairball, but a 400-pound tiger needed help from veterinary surgeons in Florida when he couldn't hack up a basketball-size hairball by himself.
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Pet Safety Memorial Day
Offbeat  (tags: pets, dogs, humans, AnimalWelfare, animaladvocates, animalrights, protection, family, safety, protection, safety, risks, animals, interesting, news, society, safety )

Dianne Ly
- 13 hours ago - dogtime.com
With summer right around the corner Bark Buckle UP wants to remind people to be safe driving buckle up the whole family pets included this Memorial Day holiday weekend.
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Japan's Miura Becomes Oldest To Reach Top Of Mount Everest At 80
Offbeat  (tags: Japan, Mount Everest, oldest, Yuichiro Miura, tallest summit, health )

Naoko
- 12 hours ago - mainichi.jp
Yuichiro Miura, an 80-year-old Japanese adventurer and professional skier, became the oldest person to conquer the world's tallest peak on May 23 when he reached the 8,848-meter-high summit of Mount Everest.
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Say Hello to Bozie, the National Zoo's New Elephant
Offbeat  (tags: Elephant, Bozie, zoo, wildlife, protection, animals, off-beat, pictures )

Julie
- 5 hours ago - blogs.smithsonianmag.com
Looks like this is a good place for Bozie the Elephant
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Funny Animals Behaving Like Humans   video
Offbeat  (tags: performance, bizarre, interesting, wildlife )

David
- 2 hours ago - youtube.com
let have a little fun on care2-----go on smile a little---just a little.
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LIT Candles: Remembering Our Beloved Leader Rajiv Gandhi - Abhishek Kadyan
Offbeat  (tags: ethics, society )

Kadyan
- 1 day ago - gratefulness.org
The UN affiliated OIPA in India and PFA Haryana paid its kind tribute along with protected animals from abuse - Sukanya Kadyan, Programme Director.
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Pizza Delivery to Afghanistan Troops Sets Guinness Record
Offbeat  (tags: pizza, military, Afghanistan, U.S., delivery, World, business, Record, mission, americans, food, goodnews, humans, news, off-beat )

Janet
- 19 hours ago - gma.yahoo.com
A pizza mission to U.S. military service members in Afghanistan has made the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest pizza delivery.
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Video:World's Weirdest - Narwhals
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, interesting, off-beat, wildlife, unusual )

JL
- 35 minutes ago - biologicaldiversity.org
The so-called unicorn horns once prized by Renaissance collectors &thought to have magical powers likely belonged not to mythical white horses but to the chunky, odd-looking whales we know as narwhals, which are now among the marine animals threatened
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Video:Letterman's 'Top 10 Reasons I Decided to Become a Teacher'
Offbeat  (tags: funny, ethics, americans, humor, off-beat, society )

JL
- 22 minutes ago - takepart.com
In this funny clip, ten rookie educators from Teach for America tell Letterman why they entered the teaching profession.
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Man Takes Elderly Dog on One Last Adventure
Offbeat  (tags: safety, interesting, world, off-beat, humans, animals, interesting, pictures, safety, goodnews, dogs, design, pets, animalwelfare )

Kelly
- 1 day ago - animalconnectionac.wordpress.com
On the Manly Ferry to the city Novak Tonkin Zeus is 15-years-old, deaf and blind. His owner isn't ready to just let him die yet though. Instead he is taking Zeus on an adventure, traveling all around Australia
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Companion Ticket
Offbeat  (tags: travel, Pets on Trains Act of 2013, animalwelfare, humans, protection, rescued, pets, GoodNews, interesting, pets, safety, business, animals, americans )

Kelly
- 1 day ago - animalconnectionac.wordpress.com
You can take your dog or cat on an airplane, and stay with your pet in many hotels. But why can't a companion animal travel with your family on a passenger train?
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EU Shelves Plans to Ban Refillable Olive Oil Jugs
Offbeat  (tags: interesting )

David
- 2 hours ago - bbc.co.uk
The EU has dropped plans to ban restaurants from using refillable jugs and bowls of olive oil, after they drew consumer criticism and even ridicule.
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Animal Photos of the Week: 12 April 2013
Offbeat  (tags: animals, pictures, photos, wildlife )

Marty
- 4 minutes ago - telegraph.co.uk
Hundreds of walruses have found themselves a new home on an iceberg 20 miles off shore. The giant marine mammals pile onto the ice and huddle together as they relax on their island. They are taking a break from hunting in the Chukchi Sea, 20 miles off
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