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Wolf

Child expected to survive after mauling by family dog in Elmore County, Alabama

Hunter Robinson
WSFA.com
Wed, 05 Nov 2014 14:19 UTC
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A 3-year-old boy suffered severe facial injuries after being attacked Wednesday afternoon by a pit bull in the Titus community of Elmore County. Sheriff Bill Franklin said the dog was owned by the boy's family and was on a chain in the yard when the child was mauled.

"The dog was actually owned by the father's brother from what we understand. The account we got was the animal takes part in hunting hogs," Sheriff Franklin said.

The child reportedly wandered out of the house while his father was in the bathroom, and got within reach of the dog. That is when the dog attacked the child, authorities say. Once the father was aware of what happened, he called 911, picked the child up, and took him near the roadway where they waited on emergency personnel to arrive. The child was then taken by medical helicopter to Children's Hospital in Birmingham.
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Wolf

Pet dog attacks, mauls baby and mother in Bremerton, Washington


The Register-Guard
Wed, 12 Nov 2014 14:01 UTC
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A pet dog mauled a 10-month-old boy and bit his mother on her hands and arms when she went to help him Tuesday evening at a home in Bremerton.Fire department emergency responders say the boy was alone in a room playing with a broom when the family dog attacked.

The Kitsap Sun reports the woman and her son were transported to Harrison Medical Center.Firefighter Troy Reynolds said the boy suffered substantial facial injuries.The dog was described as a medium-sized boxer mix.

Source: Kitsap Sun
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Cloud Lightning

Thundersnow starts winter with a bang, thanks to glorious lake-effect storm

Eric Holthaus
Salon
Fri, 14 Nov 2014 04:39 UTC
Earlier this afternoon, Chris Zimmer of Mentor, Ohio, was in the right place at the right time to capture one of the rarest, most intense winter weather phenomena there is: thundersnow. Watch, and be amazed:


Thundersnow happens only in particularly powerful snowstorms with especially strong updrafts. The sound of thunder in thundersnow is dampened, too, by all the snowflakes - you've got to be nearly underneath it to hear it.

Comment: With weather getting more severe in more locations, this may become a common phenomenon

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Igloo

Global warming, where art thou? A mini ice age is what we're in store for

Dr. Sircus
drsircus.com
Mon, 10 Nov 2014 21:25 UTC
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Parts of the lower 48 states could see temperatures between 20 and 40 degrees below average, the National Weather Service said Sunday. In the Wall Street Journal, we read that global warming has taken a long holiday or what officials call warming pause. "Well, the pause has now lasted for 16, 19 or 26 years - depending on whether you choose the surface temperature record or one of two satellite records of the lower atmosphere. That's according to a new statistical calculation by Ross McKitrick, a professor of economics at the University of Guelph in Canada."

The first scenes of the next mini ice age is all about us at the beginning of November. Soon most in the northern hemisphere are going to have to throw out the idea of having a fall at all. Winter is going to run rampage earlier and earlier each year. Winter is going to annihilate the fall. It already has.

'Earliest and deepest snowfalls in more than 100 years in Southeastern U.S.' and lots of snow combined with record low temperatures. Tennessee, North and South Carolina and Georgia all saw unexpected snow, in some places almost two feet deep. According to the Climatology Office in South Carolina, Concord, South Carolina has broken a 125-year record for the earliest snow seen. In addition, Columbia, South Carolina's capital broke a 129-year record.

Global warming is a dead idea. In fact, that is all it ever was, and unsubstantiated idea. About 14.1 million square kilometers of snow blanketed Siberia at the end of October, the second most in records going back to 1967, according to Rutgers University's Global Snow Lab. The record was in 1976, which broke a streak of mild winters in the eastern U.S. In addition, the speed at which snow has covered the region is the fastest since at least 1998.

Comment: SOTT has been saying it for years. Global cooling is the real threat:

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Wolf

More 'rare' urban coyote attacks on Indiana dogs


theindychannel.com
Tue, 11 Nov 2014 20:46 UTC
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A Purdue Animal Hospital veterinarian says fatal coyote attacks on dogs in cities are uncommon but the clinic has recently seen two such cases.

Veterinarian Steve Thompson tells WLFI-TV that two small dogs -- one in Lafayette and another in Frankfort -- were both attacked within a 24-hour period last week. Both pets had been left outside for short periods of time before the coyote attacks.

Thompson says another dog was attacked by a coyote in rural Tippecanoe County two weeks ago. He says such rural attacks will become more common as winter approaches.

Thompson says food left outside for pets can attract coyotes who may later hunt small pets.

Comment: It seems that these 'rare' coyote attacks on dogs are becoming increasingly common, of late. See also:

Dozens of pets killed by coyotes in College Park, Florida

Coyotes killing pets in Seal Beach, California

Spike in coyote attacks on animal pets in Claremont, California

Woman and dogs attacked by coyote in front of her Kilworthy home, Ontario

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Black Cat 2

Firefighters and police hunting tiger on the loose near Paris


Discovery News
Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:50 UTC
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© Ville de Montevrain - Facebook A photo of a tiger roaming free close to Paris was posted to the Facebook page of the nearby town of Ville de Montevrain.
Police and firefighters were desperately hunting for a tiger on the loose near Paris Thursday after a local resident spotted the fearsome animal in a car park and sounded the alert, authorities said.

Backed up by a helicopter overhead, firefighters armed with tranquilising guns combed the area in the Seine-et-Marne district near the French capital.

Authorities ordered residents to stay inside and children were kept at school, as several people came forward saying they had seen the tiger on the prowl.

"We have been running after it since this morning, police officers are trying to intercept it," a police source said.

Town hall official Cedric Tartaud-Gineste told AFP: "We are calling on inhabitants to be careful, not to leave their houses and to stay in their vehicles."

Comment: Residents should be concerned considering the numerous incidences of strange and aggressive behaviors being exhibited by animals worldwide. For some idea of what has occurred just in the last month, see the map below:



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Bizarro Earth

NW Nevada earthquake swarm that began in July now intensifying

Curtis Skinner
Reuters
Thu, 13 Nov 2014 08:27 UTC
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Swarm of recent earthquakes in NW Nevada, southeast of Lakeview, has scientists watching closely, though not overly worried
An earthquake swarm that started rocking a secluded region in northwest Nevada this summer intensified over the past week, geology officials said on Wednesday.

The swarm, centered just off the state's northwest border some 40 miles (65 km) southeast of Lakeview, Oregon, started July 12 and is being caused by stretching of the Earth's crust, said Graham Kent, the director of the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno.

The laboratory said in a statement that two magnitude 4.7 quakes, and over 50 magnitude 3 or stronger temblors have occurred over the past week, representing more seismic activity than in recent months combined.
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Snowflake Cold

Global warming, blah, blah, but all 50 U.S. States will see freezing temperatures this weekend


CBS
Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:18 UTC

The Arctic chill is gripping the Rockies and Upper Midwest - and it's crawling east.

Sharp drops in temperature are expected in other parts of the U.S. in the coming days, thanks to a powerful weather system that hit Alaska with hurricane-force winds over the weekend before blanketing several states in snow.

CBS News reports that all 50 states will see freezing temperatures.

A look at the system and its effects:

The lingering cold

Dangerously cold weather was expected to linger until Thursday in eastern Montana, where temperatures could reach as low as negative 30 degrees. Denver's high was only was 5 degrees on Wednesday, a day after the snow-covered city broke a nearly century-old record for the lowest temperature ever recorded on a Nov. 11.

The frigid air was expected to crawl into the Appalachians, mid-South and the East Coast by Thursday. Forecasters have issued freeze and cold-weather warnings across parts of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

Comment: SOTT has been saying it for years. Global cooling is the real threat. Some officials are finally coming around

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Attention

More odd animal behaviour: Wild boar smashes into German hardware store


nbcmontana.com
Thu, 06 Nov 2014 16:25 UTC
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Animal ran full 'boar' into glass doors, breaking through and triggering alarm

Police in Germany came face-to-face with a wild boar after responding to a burglary alarm at a hardware store.

"The animal apparently ran at full speed against the entrance door of the large do-it-yourself shop and broke through two glass doors, which triggered the alarm," police spokesman Guido Rehr told NBC News.

Surveillance camera footage captured the animal wandering around the store's aisles.

It escaped "without any loot and apparently unharmed" once officials opened the front doors, police said.

Damages to the store in Dillenburg are estimated at $6,500.
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Hardhat

Barred owl attacks 6 people, terrorizes others in Jacksonville Beach, Florida

David Williams
firstcoastnews.com
Mon, 10 Nov 2014 15:12 UTC
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© David Williams, First Coast NewsFirst Coast News reporter, David Williams, spotted the owl neighbors say is attacking people
It is majestic, but it's terrifying. Neighbors in Jacksonville Beach say something is terrorizing the neighborhood from the sky and even attacking people. First Coast News reporter, David Williams, and photographer, Jimmy Marlow, saw the owl first hand.

Jack Weyer, of Jacksonville Beach, said the owl attacked him recently.

"Out of the blue, it just came right down on the back of my head," He said. 'I just felt like, two talons right on the back of my head, grab and kid of pull away."

Eight- year-old, Sophia Forte, said she had an owl ordeal of her own 2 weeks ago.

"It flew down and hit my inside my eye and inside my hair and on my forehead," She said, as she described what she says happened to her.

Her father told us he wound up in the emergency room, but she is OK now. So far neighbors told First Coast News the bird has hurt 5 kids plus Weyer. The bird of prey has people on their toes and it has them freaked out.
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