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Florida travel calendar for September
Check out festivals and events in September across the state. Check out statewide events this coming weekend, or view the whole month's offerings by region below:
Coming up this week
Through Nov. 2 (Select Nights): Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party,...Tags: Diplo, Ed Smith, Amway Center, Los Angeles Hotels, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida)
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Celebrate World Turtle Day by NOT buying a pet
The Baltimore SunToday is World Turtle Day, created by the animal-lovers at American Tortoise Rescue as a day to celebrate and protect turtles and their habitats. As someone who lives with one turtle (a box turtle named Yertle) and is about to inherit a red-slider this...Tags: College Sports, Pet Shops, Services, and Supplies, Pets, Services and Shopping
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Palm Springs revival has deals for a song (or close to it)
The Rat Pack lives again — or at least Palm Springs, once the party pad of Sinatra and the boys, does.
The Coachella Valley city, which had devolved into a down-at-the-heels caricature of a Hollywood playground, has reinvented itself: Its retro-...Tags: Music, Los Angeles Hotels, Natural Resources, Museums, Soups
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Time Is Running Out For Sea Turtles
They say slow and steady wins the race – but for turtles, time may be running out.
This Sunday, the New York Aquarium will welcome thousands of runners to Coney Island for the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Run for the Wild in Brooklyn. This...Tags: Western Africa, Conservation, File Sharing, Brooklyn (New York City), Wildlife
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SPECIAL REPORT: Wild at heart
Your next door neighbor could own a lion, a tiger or a bear and it is perfectly legal. In fact, hundreds of wild animals are pets in Indiana.
Black Pine Animal Sanctuary in Albion, Indiana is home for many wild animals like Louie, a bearded dragon,...Tags: Pet Shops, Services, and Supplies, Pets, Services and Shopping
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San Francisco considers banning sale of all pets
Web ReporterThe first vision was simple and straightforward: To curtail puppy mills and kitten factories, the sale of cats and dogs should be banned in San Francisco, where the loving guardians of animal companions come to regular blows — politically —...Tags: San Francisco, Elections, Pet Shops, Services, and Supplies, Politics, Activism
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Word Play: Pictures for the fall
Special to the Los Angeles TimesIn "Knuffle Bunny" and "Knuffle Bunny, Too," readers fell in love with the highly expressive Trixie in her pre-verbal and preschool states. Along with her, we experience the drama of (temporarily) losing her beloved stuffed Knuffle Bunny, and we strain...Tags: New York, Edwidge Danticat, Eyes and Vision, Infants, Adults
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Happy ending: Fish Net owner hired by Pet Supermarket
Mayo on the Side: Broward news columnist Michael Mayo | Sun-Sentinel BlogsWhen Lucy Klus??? tropical fish store, the Fish Net, went out of business after 42 years in July, she said, ???I don???t know what I???m going to do.??? Last week she went back to work, at the Pet Supermarket at......Tags: Pet Shops, Services, and Supplies, Employment, Fort Lauderdale
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New report explains largest turtle-related salmonella outbreak in the U.S.
L.A. UnleashedTwo girls who swam with pet turtles in a backyard pool were among 107 people sickened in the largest salmonella outbreak blamed on turtles nationwide, researchers report. The 2007-08 outbreak involved mostly children in 34 states; one-third of all... -
Grants to landowners could mean habitat protection for rare bog turtle
L.A. UnleashedMILLBROOK, N.Y. -- The federal government is giving private landowners money to protect one of the world's smallest and rarest turtles, a species that is losing habitat throughout its range from Georgia to southern New England. The bog turtle, a...... -
Burmese pythons expanding reach in South Florida
South Florida Sun SentinelArmed with hooks, tongs and a snake bag, biologists at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge spent Thursday learning how to catch Burmese pythons. Although none have been seen at Loxahatchee, the refuge's workers are getting prepared as part of a...Tags: Florida, Everglades, Foreign Aid, Biology, Bill Nelson
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Trading Ideals for Sustenance
Times Staff WriterFor most of her life, Kim Hui Suk had spouted the sayings of North Korea's founder Kim Il Sung and never for a moment harbored a doubt: Capitalists were the enemy. Individualism was evil. But then disaster rained down on her hometown, Chongjin, on...Tags: Civil Rights, Potatoes, China, Police Arrests, Rebellions
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