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Dutch teen sailor nears end of round-the-world voyage
Wednesday 04 January 2012
Laura Dekker, the 16-year-old girl who hopes to become the youngest person to sail solo round the world, is nearing the end of her voyage, according to media reports.
Dekker started the trip from Gibraltar in August 2010 and crossed the Atlantic to the Caribbean, reaching Sint Maarten in December that year. She is now set to be back at Sint Maarten in her boat Guppy at the end of this month. The trip has not been non-stop.
Dekker first announced her plans to attempt to break the record when she was 13 but was made a ward of court when judges said the trip...
The SPCA for Monterey County is holding a special adoption event Friday through Monday.
It will reduce the adoption fee on all dogs, cats, small pets, and exotics six months and older.
Dogs will be $50, cats are Pick Your Price, exotics are 50 percent off and small pets are $5.
Regular fees range from $35 to $290.
In an effort to find all adult cats loving homes, the SPCA is letting adopters choose their own adoption fee during the event.
All cats will be spayed or neutered, vaccinated, microchipped, and given a health evaluation. They will also come with a pet carrier, a four pound bag of cat food, one month of pre-paid pet health...
Homeowners see coyotes running around Clifton and they have some concerns for their small pets. The animals have been seen back yards and running across Ludlow Avenue near Cincinnati State. Local 12s Angela Ingram has more on what the Ohio Department of Natural Resources wants people to know.
One of the biggest tips is dont feed them. Make sure your garbage cans are secure if you know coyotes are in your neighborhood.
People whove seen them in Clifton say they havent been aggressive, but they are large. I was surprised to see them so healthy and I was surprised to see a pack, too.
A few years ago, local 12 caught a woman on camera feeding them — a definite no, no according...
Q: We are trying to decide whether to put tinsel on our Christmas tree this year. Our cat loves to eat tinsel and we always assumed this was fairly safe (like eating grass). However, I read recently that tinsel could be dangerous to small pets, especially cats, if ingested. I also remember reading an article last year that said tinsel was harmless! What are the facts? Is tinsel dangerous or harmless?
A: Your confusion is understandable because, up until a few years ago, tinsel was thought to be harmless if ingested. The facts, according to most experts and the ASP-CA, are that tinsel, along with ribbons, string and yarn, can cause intestinal problems, including vomiting, intestinal...
HOUSTON (15-Jan) — While it was hard to match the excitement of yesterdays Olympic Marathon Trials here, the top competitors in the Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half-Marathon gave it their best shot, toppling the mens and womens course records in both races. Todays event marked the 40th running of the marathon here.
The record breaking started in the half-marathon. With pacemaking help from Kenyas Philemon Limo, Ethiopian Feyisa Lilesa, the reigning IAAF World Championships Marathon bronze medalist, went out at a fast clip, hitting 5-K in 14:01 and 10-K in 28:02. His nearest challenger, compatriot Tilahun Regassa, was nearly a minute back. Limo left the course...
Coyotes are in the news in suburban Boston again, this time the focus of a column that suggests we might start shooting them to reduce their numbers.
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Complaints about coyotes seem to be few in Milford, but surely we have them. Theyve crossed into every state east of the Mississippi by now. They eat rodents and small animals, but will kill and eat cats and small pets if they are hungry enough. Shooting them is against the law, and trapping them is too, in Massachusetts.
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Other animals seem to be irritating us more lately, it seems. Not sure why, but the place seems overloaded with chipmunks for some reason. They sure are cute, until they move into your home,...
HONOLULU — Hawaii is at-risk from the damaging brown tree snake from Guam.
There are no highly trained detector dogs searching for the invasive species, which has decimated bird and animal populations in Guam.
Guam has 15,000 snakes per square mile. The snakes have eaten a lot of the birds, frogs and small pets, said Rep. Barbara Marumoto.
Detection dogs kept the snakes out of Hawaii, but budget cuts put the program in the doghouse back in 2009.
We lost them at that time, said Carol Okada, with the Department. of Agriculture.
Without the super-sniffers, snakes can sneak into the islands on a plane or a ship from Guam.
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ATHLETICS: Barefoot South African Olympian runs again
JOHANNESBURG: South Africa?s barefoot Olympic runner Zola Budd is taking on her country?s 90-kilometer (56-mile) Comrades marathon, nearly 30 years after colliding with American Mary Decker at the Los Angeles Olympics. ?A lot has changed, but I?m still the Zola I was then,? the petite 45-year-old told journalists in Johannesburg after accepting an award Friday. Budd shot to international fame in 1984 when she broke the women?s 5,000-metre world record as a 17-year-old schoolgirl running barefoot. The record was disallowed following apartheid South Africa?s exclusion from international athletics. Budd then took on British citizenship...
Bainbridge — A parking lot at the former Geauga Lake amusement park remained virtually empty during the summer after the Bainbridge Township Board of Zoning Appeals shot down a proposal for a seasonal flea market.
We just think this is unmanageable from our standpoint, board chairman Michael Lamanna said.
The market, proposed by three area residents, wouldve been open weekends from April to October in the former parks main parking lot on Route 43, and would have featured arts and crafts vendors.
The organizers hoped to attract 200 to 400 vendors and 10 to 15 food and beverage sellers.
The market was expected to attract 1,000 people each day, said Aurora...
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