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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden's dog Commander has been removed from the White House, a spokeswoman said Wednesday, after it bit a number of staff members. The Bidens have sent the two-year-old German Shepherd to an unknown location while they look at "next steps" for the presidential pooch. The announcement came after CNN and Axios reported that Commander, who arrived at the White House as a cute pup in 2021, had been involved in more biting incidents than previously known. The Secret Service had acknowledged that 11 of its agents had been nipped, but CNN said the actual number was hi...
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New York (AFP) - New York worshippers celebrated mass at St. John the Divine Cathedral on Sunday alongside hundreds of animals -- including a camel, a pony, snakes, ostriches, geese, cats and dogs -- which all queued up for blessings of their own. The Manhattan Episcopal church invited its four-legged guests -- or no-legged, in the case of the snakes -- to mark the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, known as the patron saint of pets and animals. Sunday's ceremony was a special milestone for the parish, which has not held a traditional first-weekend-of-October animal blessing since 2018, due to a ...
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Washington (AFP) - Three monkeys have been found and killed after a truck carrying 100 primates to a laboratory crashed, allowing them to escape and triggering a police hunt. The vehicle turned in front of an oncoming dump truck near Danville, Pennsylvania, on Friday en route to a lab in Florida. Police said on Twitter Friday that "a small number of monkeys may have fled the crash scene into the surrounding area." By Saturday night, police said all 100 monkeys had been accounted for. Local news site WNEP reported that the escaped monkeys were euthanized, citing the US Centers for Disease Contr...
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New York (AFP) - As 2020 comes to a close some New York residents can add another woe to the long list this year has wrought: vicious squirrels. People living in the Rego Park neighborhood of Queens have reported several squirrel attacks over the past month, with one woman needing emergency attention after a bite to the hand. One resident told local media she leaves the house with pepper spray in case of encountering an aggressive squirrel or a pack, and others voiced fear for their children. "Next thing I know, it's a cage match and I'm losing," Micheline Frederick told the local ABC7 station...
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