COLUMBUS, Ohio—In order for an animal tranquilizer gun to work, it has to fire darts at a rather particular speed. Too slow, and the dart bounces off the animal without injecting the sedative. Too ...
A black bear roamed through the Hudson Valley village of Pleasantville on Oct. 5, ignoring intial attempts by authorities to ...
A buck wandering through Montclair with a soccer net tangled in his antlers has startled residents, sparked dozens of calls ...
Animal Services officers from the Napa County Sheriff’s Office twice used a stun gun on a stray pit bull and later shot it with a tranquilizer dart Tuesday morning, authorities said. The Sheriff’s ...
In the movies, when an animal gets shot with a tranquilizer dart, it succumbs quickly. That’s not how it goes with Scrim, the Crescent City’s celebrated escape-artist dog. When Scrim was stung with ...
It was 5 a.m. on a July morning on Banks Street. Using a tranquilizer dart gun that looked like an assault rifle, a volunteer veterinarian drew a bead on a wire-haired terrier mix named Scrim. The dog ...
North Carolina deputies shot a lion eight times after it killed an intern. It took eight shotgun blasts by sheriff's deputies to kill a lion that got loose at a North Carolina wildlife center and ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A scruffy little fugitive is on the lam again in New Orleans, gaining fame as he outwits a tenacious band of citizens armed with night-vision binoculars, nets and a tranquilizer ...