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| Keeping your pets busy and out of trouble - msnbc.com Posted: The winter months can be tough on everybody including our pets. The cold weather keeps a lot of us inside but the trainers at Lollypop Farm say it's important to stay active with your dog year round. This morning, they showed News 10NBC some tricks and gave us some tips to keep your dog out of trouble in the house. Lollypop offers a variety of classes from basic obedience to specialized courses like jumpers and pullers. The trainers say besides physical exercise, pets need mental stimulation as well. Gillian Hargrave said, "They get bored just like we do and so our boredom busters really focuses on activities that you can do with your dog that gives them something to think about." For more information on classes and training, click here. For more Rochester, N.Y. news go to our website www.whec.com. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Chimp Attack Brings Crackdown on Exotic Pets - msnbc.com Posted: Travis the chimp destroyed Charla Nash's face, eyesight and her trust in wild animals when the animal mauled her on this date in 2009. That horrific attack on Feb. 16, 2009 thrust Connecticut's exotic animal laws into the spotlight and the state Department of Environmental Protection is revamping the law and planning to ban chimps, gorillas, orangutans, pythons and some more common animals, like wild ferrets. Dozens of animal lovers, reptile shop owners and exhibitors voices their concerns at a public hearing at DEP headquarters in Hartford on Tuesday. "It will really hurt the reptile industry. Connecticut, for a long time, has had some really lenient laws on the big snake and lizard community. A ban would be devastating," Jeremy Turgeon, of J and D Reptiles, said. The Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk said, under proposed changes, it would no longer be considered an aquarium and some of its interactive exhibits would become illegal. "We have a number of touch tanks. We take programs into the schools that used horseshoe crabs and sea stars. We expose 20,000 kids to that," Jack Schneider said. The DEP admits that more work must be done before any changes become law. "One of the things we really need to clarify is our definition of domestic animal and wild animal. To be clear, these regulations would only apply to wild animals," said Rick Jacobson, the director of the DEP's wildlife division. An attorney for the Nash family also attended the hearing and said the family plans to sue the state for $150 million, claiming the current law was never enforced. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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