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Updated: 05-24-2012
 

Montana cow delivers triplets

April 21st, 2011

MANHATTAN, Mont. (AP) — Cow-a-bunga! A black Angus cow in Montana is the proud mother of triplet calves.

The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports Cow No. 403 at Lance and Erika Chaney’s ranch near Manhattan gave birth Monday to three, 40-pound calves.

The two females and male are all healthy.

Washington State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine says the odds

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Animal rights end goldfish racing

April 20th, 2011

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — The weekly gold fish races at a Tacoma bar are canceled after it received complaints from animal rights activists.

Every Tuesday night the Harmon Tap Room would feature races in which cheap feeder fish from a pet store were “raced” down two 8-foot troughs. Racers guided the fish with squirt bottles.

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Woman shoplifts 14 live lobsters

April 13th, 2011

ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Police in Rochester, N.H., would like to get their claws on a woman accused of shoplifting 14 live lobsters.

Authorities released a surveillance photo Monday that shows the woman pushing a shopping cart near the front of the Milton Road Market Basket grocery store.

Police tell the Foster’s Daily Democrat that the woman entered the store Friday afternoon and asked for a selection of lobster from the clerk in the seafood department.

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Manly scented candles

March 15th, 2011

MARYSVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A 13-year-old Ohio boy has launched his own line of scented candles meant for men, with fragrances that include bacon, New York-style pizza, sawdust and the smell of a fresh leather baseball mitt.

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