These stories are worth a click:
* The family of Charla Nash, the Connecticut woman who was viciously attacked by a pet chimpanzee, is seeking $50 million in damages from the animal's owner. -- CNN
* Rep. Steve Kagen (D-Wis.), an allergist, has puppy advice for the Obamas: get a golden retriever and give it a crew cut. No dog is totally allergy-free, he says, so "If you're going to get a dog, get a real dog." -- Washington Post
* Alaska officials, unable to lure enough aerial hunters to the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, have shot 30 wolves themselves and to eliminate 200 of 300 that live there–against the advice of the National Park Service. -- Seattle Times
* National Poison Prevention Week: Keeping Pets Safe -- Petside.com
* Animal advocates say a feedlot in west Texas grotesquely keeps live horses crammed into pens that have dead horse bodies. Two horses a day die there. -- Houston Chronicle
* Baltimore dog owner willed $1 million to care for pets who outlived their owners and another $700,000 for other animal causes. -- Dogster
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