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2-year-old boy mauled to death and eaten by pig after crawling into its pen, China


singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg
Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:22 UTC
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A toddler in China was mauled to death and partially eaten by a pig after crawling into the animal's pen.

The two-year-old Wei Tsao, known affectionately as Keke, was playing in the garden of his parents' house, in eastern China's Jiangsu Province, when they decided to step away for a moment.

The toddler then crawled into the pig pen where the protective sow mauled him to death in an attempt to protect her newborn piglets.
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Attention

Wild boar shot after midnight attack on family, China


globaltimes.cn
Thu, 16 Jan 2014 15:26 UTC
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A wild boar lies dead after police in Xianyang, Shaanxi Province were forced to shoot it after the animal attacked a family in their home.
It took police seven shots to kill a wild boar that rushed into a home and attacked a villager in Xianyang, Shaanxi Province on January 12.

Area police found the 200-kilogram boar trapped in the home of a Donghe village family where it had rushed in and attacked a young man.

The 18-year-old victim was brought to a local hospital for a bite wound on his right thigh.

Authorities eventually lured the feral pig outside and fired seven times before killing it. "I and two other officers climbed on the roof for a better shot," said Yang Zhanmin, deputy chief of Xunyi county police. "The boar began thrashing around after the first two shots to its head, and we fired five more times to make sure it wouldn't injure anyone," said Yang.

According to Fu Jie, father of the victim, the boar fell into his family's courtyard while scavenging for food on one of the compound roofs at around 1 am on January 12.

Comment: 2014 has seen quite a lot of demented behaviour by wild boar across the planet, see the reports below -

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

6 people attacked and bitten by a wild boar in Tokyo

At least six people attacked and injured by a group of wild boar in India

Wild boar and pig attacks in Vietnam - 2 in hospital in same week

Wild boar attacks man in Inarajan, Guam

Wild boar savagely attacks man in Imphal, India

Elderly woman viciously attacked by a wild boar in Malaysia

Man injured in wild boar attack in India with other attacks reported

Woman killed by wild boar in rare attack, Vietnam

TV cameraman viciously attacked by a wild boar on Japanese street

Pack of wild boar attack woman in suburb of Stockholm, Sweden

Wild boar fed up with being hunted - charges hunters in France

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Cloud Precipitation

Nine provinces in Thailand experience flooding and heavy rainfall

Richard Davies
floodlist.com
Fri, 14 Nov 2014 14:43 UTC
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The northeast monsoon has left at least 9 provinces in southern Thailand battling heavy rain and floods, as the country's Interior Minister warns there could be more to come.

Trang Province

Trang province in southern Thailand has been one of the worst affected areas after persistent heavy rain over the last 4 days caused flash floods across several southern provinces.

Around 1,000 villagers in Trang have been evacuated since the flooding began. Houses and farmland have been damaged. The flood water level was almost two meters high, according to NNT.
Homes flooded in Trang; troops help the trapped http://t.co/GTT2Iw9Glf #TheNation pic.twitter.com/dU73e3vpTn

- The Nation Thailand (@nationnews) November 11, 2014
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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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