RENO, Nev. — This summer’s Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival has produced an unlikely star: a deaf pit bull named Michael who narrowly escaped euthanasia. The 6-year-old American Staffordshire terrier has turned out to be a hoot in his role as Crab the dog in the Bard’s comedy, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” festival organizers and […]
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By Katherine Harmon Excerpt: Interestingly, hoarders showed lower brain activity in these regions when they were deciding about other people’s items. But when they were faced with their own items, these areas of the brain showed much higher rates of signaling than those in either people with OCD or the healthy controls. Those with hoarding
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Thanks to the generosity of animal welfare groups and individual well-wishers, a hero dog from the Philippines whose face was destroyed in a horrific accident earlier this year will soon be flown to the United States for reconstructive surgery. This past February, the dog — named Kabang (“spotty” in Visayan) — was hailed a hero
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