Copenhagen: Danish police found 30 dead dogs, including 25 puppies, in a freezer while investigating complaints of loud barking. Police spokesman Soeren Bach said that they discovered the dogs on Monday at a 66-year-old man's house after he had refused to pay fines for disturbing the peace and ignored an April court order banning him from keeping dogs on his property in Hjoerring, northern Denmark.
Bach said on Tuesday that the man, who was not named, was not at home at the time. Officers had a warrant to seize any dogs on the premises. They found four live dogs and a snake.
He said the dead dogs were found during a "routine" search of the house. It was unclear how the animals had died.
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07:23 PM, May 07, 2013
Chennai: Customs officials arrested a man at the airport here with a suitcase containing five venomous snakes on Wednesday. Airport sources said the arrested Mohammed Azarudin, who arrived by a Thai Airways flight, told the Customs officials that one of his friends in Thaliand gave the suitcase to him with a request to handover it to a person in Chennai. He said he was given Rs 10,000 for carrying the...
12:20 PM, Apr 17, 2013
The 44-year-old actress has been attaching a sliver of snakeskin to her toenails and painting over it with a clear sealant, reported Showbiz spy. ...
12:42 PM, Feb 27, 2013
Passengers on a flight from Australia to Papua New Guinea were shocked to look out their cabin windows to find a huge snake on the wing of the plane. ...
02:56 PM, Jan 17, 2013
Mumbai Commissioner Satyapal Singh has ordered a probe into a controversial poem published in the city police's in-house magazine Samwaad. The Commissioner has asked DCP SS Gholap to submit a report in a fortnight's time. ...
12:12 PM, Jan 15, 2013
Kathmandu: A Nepali man who was bitten by a cobra snake bit it back and killed the reptile in a tit-for-tat attack, a newspaper said on Thursday. Nepali daily Annapurna Post said Mohamed Salmo Miya chased the snake, which bit him in his rice paddy on Tuesday caught it and bit it until it died. "I could have killed it with a stick but bit it with my teeth instead...
02:20 PM, Aug 23, 2012
Hyderabad: R Sushma, a resident of Ayodhya Nagar in Balapur, had a panic attack on Monday evening, induced by the sight of a nine-foot long cobra slithering away in a corner of her compound. The petrified woman raised an alarm and alerted her neighbours who had the presence of mind to immediately buzz the Friends of Snake Society Club. The five-year-old male cobra was rescued soon enough much to the...
12:57 PM, Jul 11, 2012
Mumbai: After Air India promised to clear their salaries, many of its contractual ground staff who bunked duty on Thursday morning returned to work, official sources said. Earlier, around a hundred workers remained away from work protesting non-payment of two months salaries. Air India officials said it had made arrangements to clear the salaries by Saturday. The officials said two international flights from Mumbai to Cairo and Shanghai were delayed...
06:30 PM, Apr 05, 2012
Melbourne: An Australian jet pilot was forced to make an emergency landing shortly after takeoff as a snake appeared slithering from the plane's dashboard. Braden Blennerhassett, a pilot with Air Frontier, was flying freight to the remote town of Peppimenarti in the Northern Territory when about 20 minutes after he had left Darwin, he spotted the snake coming out of the dashboard, according to local media reports. Air Frontier director...
06:23 PM, Apr 05, 2012
Jaipur (Odisha): In a bizarre incident a man bit a snake, a cobra, to death in Rahama village under Rasulpur block in Jajpur district. Iman Welli (25), a daily wager, gave it back to the cobra after the reptile bit him while he was working in a sugarcane field on Thursday. Welli who works as a labourer in the fields of Babana Dalei bit the snake 12 times, killing it....
10:06 AM, Mar 24, 2012
New Delhi: Ironic it may sound, elite anti-naxal commando squad CoBRA, which was named after one of the most venomous reptiles, is now facing incidence of snake bites among its personnel posted in deep jungles. Ten battalions of the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) are deployed in the dense jungles of Odisha, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar to undertake intelligence based anti-Maoist operations and provide quality assistance to...
05:57 PM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: It wasn't just heart-shaped chocolates and bright red roses that saw a spurt in sales this Valentine's Day. A deadly drug prepared from cobra venom gave a new high at parties in the national capital and surrounding areas, anti-narcotics officials say. "The sale of drugs (like K-72 and K-76) which have cobra venom is increasing at rave parties and in discos. These drugs enhance sensation and boost energy...
03:55 PM, Feb 16, 2012
Mumbai: Guess who's giving the city's upper-crust some unlikely company in the swank five-star hotels these days? Snakes. With an exponential increase in the number of construction sites, snakes in the city seem to be the new 'guests' however abhorrent and unwelcome seeking accommodation in the city's upscale resorts. The Haffkine Institute in Parel has been receiving numerous requests from major hotels recently, for their premises to be made 'snake-free.'...
03:29 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Sabarimala: Last year, this place suffered a terrible tragedy when 102 people died in a stampede. But pilgrims are still thronging the Sabarimala temple, the revered Hindu shrine situated in the Western Ghats in central Kerala. What is more, the temple these days is experiencing an excess of everything - from snakes to pickpockets to its earnings in the current pilgrim season. The authorities of the Travancore Devasom Board (TDB)...
06:32 PM, Jan 09, 2012
Mumbai: For the first time in its 150-year history, the Mumbai zoo has recorded a daring theft -- a live Red Sand Boa snake, which some wrongly believe can lead to hidden treasures. According to a zoo official, the theft of the non-poisonous, two-foot long snake was noticed on Saturday when its enclosure was opened to feed it. "The lock of the cage was broken and the Red Sand Boa...
11:48 AM, May 29, 2011
Washington: We aren't born afraid of spiders and snakes, but we can pick up these fears very quickly as infants, scientists say. Arne Ohman at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and Susan Mineka from Northwestern University, US, have studied how infants and toddlers react to scary objects, the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science reports. In one set of experiments, they showed infants as young as seven months old two...
05:39 PM, Jan 25, 2011
London: Buy it at your own risk as thousands of snakes slithering around on the ceilings and walls are waiting to welcome if anyone enters the "horrible" house in the US. However, the agent trying to sell the five-bedroom house located in the eastern state of Idaho is hopeful because there are snake lovers in the world. The price is $ 66,000 less than its estimated market value, the Daily...
12:12 PM, Jan 24, 2011
New Delhi: Cobras and rattlesnakes at the Games Village had created quite a stir among the CWG organisers. These snakes had kept the Commonwealth Games officials on toes as frequent sights of the reptiles at the Games Village have been causing a scare among the Games organisers and the athletes. But thanks to Wildlife SOS, these snakes have been rescued well in time ensuring the safety of both the players...
09:35 AM, Oct 13, 2010
New Delhi: The clock is ticking and the Delhi government is desperately trying to salvage the Commonwealth Games mess. A snake in the athletes living quarters in the Games Village is the latest headache for the Delhi Government. A snake was found in a room in the residential tower, earmarked for the South African athletes, who have not arrived yet, said Commissioner Harris Mbulelo Mejeke. "We can't go and stay...
10:04 PM, Sep 26, 2010
