Rick Perry's wildlife staff use AR-15s to hunt burros, FOIA shows

burros on the roadside

Texas wildlife officials have been hunting down wild burros with AR-15s to clear a state park for bighorn sheep hunters, FOIA documents show.

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NC rescuer unaware they saved Heidi the cross-eyed possum

Heidi the cross-eyed possum was orphaned, probably by a car, then raised at the NC Zoo in Asheboro before heading to 3 European zoos and fame.

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Tips: how to find migrating monarch butterflies

Monarch butterflies are migrating down south right about now. Check pines and milkweed after a rain. Check Journey North for an interactive spotting map for roosts.

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Heidi, the fat, American cross-eyed possum, dies in German zoo

Heidi, who was orphaned in NC and hand-raised, became a celebrity in Germany. She was fat and ultimately arthritis did her in.

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Beagles sprung from NC lab still recovering one year on

Beagles in cages

About a year ago today my beagles’ lives started changing. Huckleberry, Moxie and 200-some dogs and cats were sprung from their filthy cages at Professional Laboratory and Research Services after a PETA undercover video

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Windshield snake scares family, amuses world, then dies

A snake scared a family by crawling across its windshield. They misidentified it as a water mocassin and drove on in terror till it fell.

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NC lab workers who abused beagles (including mine) indicted

Four workers at a NC lab that tested flea and tick drugs have been indicted for felony animal cruetly–a US court first. Then again, these women were particularly heartless. My beagles still show signs of abuse.

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Kentucky wants to open hunting on eastern population of Sandhill Cranes

Sandhill Dance

KY wants to be the first state in the Eastern Flyway to hunt Sandhill cranes. Watch out whooping cranes. This is the same route endangered whooping cranes take and sandhill hunters keep shooting them.

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The endangered species deficit

wolverine

About 850 species are waiting for endangered species protection, including 264 biologists say need it. At this rate we won’t help them all till at least 2044.

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Fitzgerald Wild Chicken Festival

woman carries roosters

Fitgerald, GA, seems to have the only party around for feral chickens. Going on a decade, the Wild Chicken Festival now attracts about 10,000 people each March–far more than the controversial rattlesnake roundup it replaced. The town happens to have fancy-looking Burmese chickens all year long.

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