BOSTON — A Connecticut woman mauled by her friend’s chimpanzee is suing the state for $150 million. Every day is training day for 58-year-old Charla Nash, who’s working with a team of therapists at a rehabilitation facility outside of Boston. “I don’t want anyone to feel sorry for me. I want to be like,…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The president of the California Fish and Game Commission, facing calls to resign because he killed a cougar in Idaho, is the target of an ethics complaint that alleges he accepted an illegal gift from the ranch where he shot the animal.The complaint filed Thursday with the Fair Political Practices Commission alleges…
Black Hills lion hunters have entered uncharted ground. Following a flurry of 14 kills in the last six days, the count for the 2012 season reached 62 on Friday. That is 13 more than the previous high of 49 set during the 2011 season. It leaves the season just eight cats short of the 70-lion…
Want to hug a tiger cub on your holiday? Bad places still allow it. Ismat Tahseen Jan 21, 2012, 12.00AM IST (Tiger, tiger: Arjan Bajwa at a petting zoo in Bangkok) With picnic areas, quiet fences with docile sheep, filling pails with grain to feed horses and collecting eggs from a chicken house, there’s much…
USDA Announces Recent Animal Welfare Act and Horse Protection Act Enforcement Actions WASHINGTON, Jan. 12, 2012–The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is continuing to move more swiftly and consistently to take enforcement action in response to animal welfare violations. As part of its effort to make its actions transparent and…