http://www.worldscutestanimals.com Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:08:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en LAKESIDE, Calif. - A California woman has been arrested after animal control officers found 60 dogs in crates inside her small Lakeside home east of San Diego. Sixty-five-year-old Alice Via was arrested Wednesday for investigation of animal cruelty and neglect. She ran what she called the San Diego Boxer Rescue, and ... http://www.worldscutestanimals.com/news/dogs/calif-woman-arrested-60-dogs-seized-from-home/ California legislators are moving forward with plans to create a public, online, animal abuser registry identical in function to the public sex offender registry. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1969346,00.html http://www.worldscutestanimals.com/news/general/california-lawmakers-propose-animal-abuse-registry/ About two weeks before Christmas, Deacon, an 85-pound German shepherd, went missing from his family home in rural Stuart, Va. During the first couple of days, Pamela Holt, her husband Keith, and their daughter Brooklyn, 3, weren't terribly worried because they figured their nearly 2-year-old pet was running in the fields ... http://www.worldscutestanimals.com/news/dogs/missing-dog-turns-up-600-miles-from-home/ ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon authorities say the 4-year-old daughter of a reality TV show star was mauled to death by the family's Rottweiler. Clatsop County Sheriff Tom Bergin says Ashlynn Anderson's mother found her badly injured on their lawn in Astoria on Sunday. Ashlynn is the daughter of Jesse Browning, ... http://www.worldscutestanimals.com/news/dogs/ax-men-stars-daughter-mauled-to-death-by-dog/ WERNERSVILLE, Pennsylvania - An eastern Pennsylvania man was attacked and killed by a "temperamental" pet bull a day before his 53rd birthday, the coroner's office said Monday. Ricky Weinhold was attacked Saturday by a one-ton bull on a farm where he leased barn space in Wernersville, about 60 miles northwest of ... http://www.worldscutestanimals.com/news/farm-animals/temperamental-pet-bull-kills-owner-in-pennsylvania/ Lawyers for oilsands giant Syncrude are scheduled to appear in court in Alberta on Monday to defend the company against charges laid in the deaths of 1,600 ducks in a northern Alberta tailings pond in April 2008. The company has pleaded not guilty to charges under provincial and federal laws. Two ... http://www.worldscutestanimals.com/news/birds/syncrude-trial-on-duck-deaths-to-start-monday/ One day after an orca at Sea World in Orlando dragged a female trainer into his tank by her ponytail, causing her death, a crack appeared in a huge aquarium in a Dubai mall filled with hundreds of sharks. Dubai’s Gulf News reported that witnesses saw water leaking from the mall’s ... http://www.worldscutestanimals.com/news/fish-underwater/leak-in-shark-filled-aquarium-in-dubai-mall/ SeaWorld said Thursday that despite calls to free or destroy the killer whale that drowned its trainer, it will keep the animal but suspend all orca shows while it decides whether to change the way handlers work with the behemoths. Also, privileged visitors who occasionally were invited to pet the killer ... http://www.worldscutestanimals.com/news/fish-underwater/seaworld-to-keep-killer-orca/ A virus that may weaken the immune system of koalas, similar to HIV in humans, is a new “wild card” among threats facing the species and nearly all koalas in Queensland could already be infected. Read more at Australian Geographic... http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/koala-aids-virus.htm http://www.worldscutestanimals.com/news/exotic-animals/aids-like-virus-new-threat-to-koala/ A killer whale who killed a trainer in front of a live audience at SeaWorld Orlando on Wednesday has been involved in two other deaths, including one in Victoria, B.C., almost 20 years ago. Officials say the whale, called Tillikum, grabbed Dawn Brancheau, 40, in its jaw and thrashed her around ... http://www.worldscutestanimals.com/news/fish-underwater/killer-whale-kills-seaworld-trainer/