Six-legged deer and Santeria: your afternoon animal news roundup
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- A six-legged deer found in northern Georgia has found a home with a woman permitted to keep unique animals in captivity.
- Police officials in Miami-Dade County, Fla., said their new handbook will include a reminder to respect people’s freedom to practice religion when responding to calls about ritual animal sacrifice. The decision comes a year after police in Coral Gables raided and detained people at a home where Santeria practitioners were slaughtering goats, chickens and pigeons.
- Animal services officers in the Northern California town of Boulder Creek confiscated 38 dogs and puppies from a home over the weekend after finding ‘more dead dogs than we could count’ and dog heads hanging from trees.
- An animal activist was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for making bomb threats to disrupt animal testing at UC San Diego.
- And celebrity chef Rachael Ray has started a line of dog food based on recipes she concocted for her pit bull.
-- Tony Barboza
