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Noah Mitchell faces animal cruelty charges for body slamming petA Key Largo man is in jail after he allegedly beat his dog nearly to death after it tried to run from him and then stole his steak. "Bubba," a black Labrador, is in seriously bad shape after his owner, Noah Mitchell, performed a knee drop on the dog and dragged it around by the neck after getting mad at his pet over the weekend. According to a police report quoting an eyewitness, Mitchell first got angry after the dog tried to run from him outside on Oct. 3. Once dragged...

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M., Oct. 4, 2010 – Arriving home after deploying to a war zone can bring new challenges to military members. Many discover that their fight is not over. They end up facing an unseen enemy, with sometimes serious consequences. That enemy is post-traumatic stress disorder. PTSD is an anxiety disorder that can affect people who have experienced extremely stressful and traumatic events, such as witnessing the loss of human life or as being a victim of a violent attack. Air Force Master Sgt. Justin Jordan, the Air Force support integration superintendent with the Air Force Inspection...

Dade City, Florida -- Sure, there's swimming with stingrays or dolphins, but just imagine what your friends would say if you took a dive with a tiger... It can happen. "No one else I know does it," smiled Kathy Stearns, director of the Dade City Wild Things animal sanctuary. A couple of months ago, a zoo in Oklahoma City donated a three week old white tiger to the sanctuary. Stearns picked up the tiny animal she named Diamond and flew her back to the Bay area. Photo Gallery: Swimming with a white tiger cub! "She had a little bag, but...

Slideshow of fascinating undersea creatures

This kitten wants to nap. In a tea cup.

A hunter is expected to survive after being shot with an arrow Wednesday evening. Investigators said the hunter's friend shot the arrow from a bow after mistaking the hunter for a deer, reports Clay County Today. The unfortunate incident happened around sunset Wednesday in Jennings State Forest, a popular North Florida hunting site in Clay County. John Whigham, 22, of Fleming Island, said he was returning to a hunting stand when his friend, Randy Pritchard, of Middleburg, shot an arrow from his tree stand into some palmetto bushes about 10 yards away, thinking it was a deer, reports Clay County...

Kerry M. Kriger wants to make Santa Cruz County the most frog-friendly county on the planet. The county is home to three endangered amphibians, including the California red-legged frog. "I definitely want our community to understand the importance of amphibians," he said. "We have some important Santa Cruz-based projects that we're working on, and we'll need a lot of community participation." Kriger - founder and executive director of Save the Frogs, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting amphibian populations and "promoting a society that respects and appreciates nature and wildlife" - will speak at the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum today, as...

The poisonous brown recluse spider is a very rare sight in New York City. So imagine one woman's surprise upon finding the venomous creature in her sink. Gail Ingram claims she found the first recluse spider in the sink of her apartment on Gramercy Park in Manhattan. And despite the wave of bedbugs sweeping through the city -- the latest such infestation was discovered in shock jock Howard Stern's office -- poisonous spiders are a different story entirely. Yet there it was. "I discovered a brown recluse spider in my kitchen sink,"

Rabid Dogs Put Bite on Bali

(09-30) 18:25 PDT OAKLAND -- Mary Kate Hallock arrived at her Oakland hills home after running errands Tuesday and found a blue note fluttering on her front door. "Oakland police responded to your residence to investigate a burglar alarm," the handwritten note read. "While circling the rear perimeter, lab advanced on officers in a threatening manner before being shot and killed." "Lab" was Gloria, an 11-year-old, arthritic yellow Labrador Hallock's family had owned since she was a puppy. Oakland police shot Gloria three times with a 40-caliber Glock handgun in the family's backyard while responding to a false burglar alarm...

<p>An Oakland family was still waiting to get their dog's remains back from police Thursday night, two days after an officer shot the animal in their own back yard and left behind only a note.</p> <p>When Mary Kate Hallock arrived home on Tuesday, she immediately sensed something was wrong.</p>

Tonight I want to hear of your favorite Animal Rescue Organization. Where would YOU go to if you were to adopt a dog and give it it's forever home? Please share your stories about your rescue dogs and the folks who rescued them for you.The one I support and would get another dog if circumstances warranted ... is German Shepherd of Orange County. Their site is HERE!

A deer that crashed through a window and romped around a house in East Tennessee left a family with thousands of dollars in damages and a mess that included blood stains from the homeowner shooting the animal. David and Cheri Ellis told the Cleveland Daily Banner that their daughters had gone upstairs to their bedroom when a six-point buck jumped through a window Wednesday night at the house they are remodeling in north Bradley County. Sign up for news & weather email alerts from WHNT NEWS 19! David Ellis said he saw the deer slid into a drum set and...

In light of the newly revealed “Blackfish” organization cutting nets holding dolphins in Taiji earlier this week, Captain Paul Watson has written an article clarifying what little the Sea Shepherd know about the European conservation group.“Who and what is blackfish? We do not know,” writes Watson. “In fact, until the report that dolphin holding pen nets had been cut in Taiji harbour and a release to that effect was posted, we had never heard of this group.”What’s odd about this statement is that all of the Blackfish co-founders: Arne Feuerhahn, Christine Bindal, and Wietse van der Werf — are...

You go to the pound. You find the cutest dog on the planet sitting in one of the cages, staring up at you with baleful eyes. You adopt this dog, love this dog, train this dog. She becomes part of your family. One day, a dog of the same breed in a neighborhood 20 miles away bites somebody. A few weeks later, after exhaustive media coverage of this event, your landlord comes knocking at your door and says you have to get rid of your dog. Why? Because she happens to be a pit bull. Breed-specific legislation, or BSL, typically...

One of Glen Esk's more eccentric inhabitants has gone missing.Her whimsical presence brought a smile to anyone who spotted her on the way up or down the glen — but on Monday morning her family wakened to discover her gone. She appeared to have been cownapped. For several years now the green cow has "grazed" happily at Colmeallie, having been taken there by financier John Henderson, who took pity on the animal's plight when he found her miles from any pasture in a concrete enclosure in Edinburgh. Mrs Anna Henderson said, "A contented creature, easy to care for, of unimpeachable...

Mesa Grandfather Shoots Snake, Teaches Kids About Safety (Cannot be posted by by FR rules)

Twenty. That’s how many rhino are being lost to South Africa every month through poaching. A creature that first emerged during the Eocene and lumbered through the aeons to walk the Earth today is being shot and hacked in numbers that are truly terrifying. The horn that makes it among the most distinctive creatures on the planet — the one we knew instantly back when the icing on Iced Zoo biscuits was applied with greater finesse — is also the mark that sentences it to death. It’s not as easy to get emotional about rhino as it is about elephants...

US authorities are trying to get rid of venomous snakes in its territory of Guam in the Pacific Ocean by 'bombing' the island with poisoned mice. Using helicopters from its Naval Base in Guam, scientists from the US department of agriculture have dropped mice packed with acetaminophen into the jungles in a ploy to rid Guam of its population of brown tree snakes, Fox News reported citing military news outlet Stars and Stripes. Guam's snake problem began in the 1980s, when the creatures arrived on the island accidentally in military cargo. The drug has already undergone extensive testing, said Dan...

A dash of oregano does more than make pizza taste delicious: it also can reduce the amount of methane in cow burps, new research shows. Scientists have been trying to decrease methane from livestock for years; methane is over 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO2) as a greenhouse gas, and cows in the U.S. emit about 5.5 million metric tons of methane per year. Scientists have tried vaccines, breeding, antibiotics, and other dietary supplements like garlic or fumaric acid (found in lichens and moss). Alexander Hristov, assistant professor of dairy nutrition at Penn State, spent six years in...