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Learning about God from dogs, Orthodox monks breed and train canines in upstate New York monastery
CAMBRIDGE, New York (AP) — After he and his fellow monks sang morning prayers in their church nestled in a forest, Brother Luke walked back to his residence to be greeted by a different kind of choir. Lucy and Iso excitedly woofed as they spotted the Orthodox monk, who heads the...
Activists risk their lives to rescue animals in areas of Lebanon hit by Israeli airstrikes
BEIRUT (AP) — Hours after an Israeli strike destroyed a three-story building in Beirut, killing at least 10 people, Maggie Sharawi received a telephone call from a person living nearby saying that the attack had killed a cat that had several kittens. While civil defense members...
Police rescue 170 animals from a home in Puerto Rico including turtles, donkeys and dogs
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police in Puerto Rico said they rescued 170 animals from a home in a mountain town on Thursday and arrested their owner. Among the animals rescued were turtles, donkeys, goats, sheep, various dog breeds and even an endangered Puerto Rican parrot, police...
A pack of dogs killed a man behind a house in New York
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A 59-year-old man was killed in a “horrific” attack by a pack of dogs in a back yard next to a house where two dozen of the animals were kept, police said Thursday. Officers responding to a call found eight or nine mixed-breed pit bulls attacking James...
Animal welfare advocates will plead with Texas lawmakers to help cities control stray pet population
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The phone calls at Yaqui Animal Rescue were non-stop. On the other end of the phone were requests to help with abandoned puppies or pick up stray dogs roaming the streets. The Rio Grande Valley ranch used to temporarily house and care for animals was getting hourly requests...
Feel-good parkruns have raced past their humble beginnings and now draw millions for fitness and fun
LONDON (AP) — On a weekend morning in the fall of 2004, 13 runners lined up in a London park for an informal race — unaware they were taking the first steps in what would become a global movement. Paul Sinton-Hewitt had simple ambitions: to provide a free, weekly 5-kilometer...
A man in south Lebanon cares for pets left behind as residents flee Israeli strikes
BEIRUT (AP) — A dog clings to Hussein Hamza inside a car as he pans his camera around to show the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon. “Poor thing. Look at this, he’s clinging to me out of fear,” Hamza says in the video he posted online. “A missile hit...
Two foreign tourists, a baby and his grandmother, are missing after floods hit central Italy
ROME (AP) — Two foreign tourists, a 5-month-old baby and his grandmother, were missing on Tuesday after floods hit Italy’s central Tuscany region overnight, firefighters said. Rescuers searched for the two on Tuesday using divers, rescue dogs and drones. The...
Stray puppy that brought Hamlin bad luck gets to stay after driver advances in NASCAR playoffs
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The dog can stay — at least for another round of NASCAR's playoffs. The future of little Lulu, the stray puppy Denny Hamlin's daughters found under the Gateway Arch in St. Louis in June, has been in doubt ever since Hamlin decided the addition to his...
A new genetic analysis of animals in the Wuhan market in 2019 may help find COVID-19's origin
LONDON (AP) — Scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 have zeroed in on a short list of animals that possibly helped spread it to people, an effort they hope could allow them to trace the outbreak back to its source. Researchers analyzed genetic material gathered from the...
