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Emergency medical cat care at your fingertips

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 13th

By Dr. Jessica VogelsangFrom The Daily Cat We've all been there: It's midnight, and your cat is acting strange. Then it vomits. You watch your pet, wondering if you need to bundle it into the carrier and incur a $100 emergency vet bill to be told your cat is probably fine, or that you

Tiger, mountain lions seized from Kansas property

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 6th

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTHAssociated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A tiger and two mountain lions were among a menagerie of wild cats seized from private farmland in rural northeast Kansas, where they lived in inadequate chain-link enclosures and weren't properly fed or watered,

Tick Season Is Here!

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 25th

SPOKANE, Wash. – With warm weather on its way to eastern Washington, residents should expect the number of ticks to rise. Spokane Regional Health District (SRHD) urges people to take simple precautions to avoid being bitten this spring, summer and early fall. "Different types of

Pa. man's apparent suicide leaves 3 others dead

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 17th

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM and RON TODTAssociated Press QUAKERTOWN, Pa. (AP) - Friends and neighbors were stunned and saddened by the deaths of four family members who appear to have died of carbon monoxide fumes that resulted from the husband's apparent suicide. Bucks County District Attorney David

Retired Texas vet challenges Internet restrictions

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 9th

By MATTHEW BARAKATAssociated Press McLEAN, Va. (AP) - A retired Texas veterinarian has filed a federal lawsuit challenging state regulations that bar him from evaluating animals and giving veterinary advice over the Internet. Since 2002, Ronald Hines, 69, of Brownsville, Tex., has used his website

Retired Texas vet challenges Internet restrictions

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 9th

Former Nev. lawmaker arrested after freeway chase

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 30th

By KEN RITTER and MICHELLE RINDELSThe Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) - Police chased a former lawmaker on a freeway between Las Vegas and Los Angeles and arrested him at gunpoint following a struggle, hours after he became the first person ever expelled from the Nevada Legislature. Steven Brooks

Freeway chase led to ex-Nev. lawmaker's arrest

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 29th

By KEN RITTER and MICHELLE RINDELSThe Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) - Hours after he became the first person in Nevada history to be kicked out of the state Legislature, an embattled former lawmaker led police on a chase on a freeway between Las Vegas and Los Angeles that ended with a violent

Seal pup learning to swim again after amputation

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 29th

By RODRIQUE NGOWIAssociated Press MYSTIC, Conn. (AP) - The harbor seal pup lay battered on a Massachusetts beach, the victim of a brutal attack by an older seal that left deep wounds all over her body and sapped so much of her strength that she couldn't even flee when rescuers found her. Now

$1M pilot project aims to take out feral pigs

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 18th

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYANAssociated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Using the cover of darkness, feral pigs have learned to outsmart even the most seasoned hunters as they set about on their nightly terrors, rooting up crops and suburban gardens, harassing native wildlife and turning watering holes