Photo: Bernard, Jeanette
ca 1890-1910
Miller Plummer Collection
From George Eastman House Collections
A veterinary study shows that if you're aggressive, you're dog will be, too.Duh - this just seems like common sense, doesn't it?
In a new, year-long University of Pennsylvania survey of dog owners who use confrontational or aversive methods to train aggressive pets, veterinary researchers have found that most of these animals will continue to be aggressive unless training techniques are modified.
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After disposing of 39,650 rodents, a man from Bangladesh has been crowned a rat-killing champion and has been awarded a 14-inch Sony color television for his efforts.It took Binoy Kumar Karmakara one year to perform the daunting task and he used traps, poison and flooding to capture the animals.
He also kept their tails so that he could keep count.
Killing rats is a strategy that was launched by the government of Bangladesh because rats are responsible for the loss of about 10% of the country’s crops.
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Late French designer Yves Saint Laurent's two bronze sculptures went up for auction at Christie's last week. The highest bidder has been revealed: Cai Mingchao.But Cai, who bid nearly $40 million by phone last week, has no intention of paying.
Cai is a member of China's Lost Cultural Relics Foundation, a group trying to stop the auction and reclaim the two relics, which were once housed in Beijing's Old Summer Palace.
The Chinese say the bronze rat and rabbit heads were stolen during the second Opium War in 1860 when British and French troops looted and then burned down the imperial palace.
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