Aiken County Animal Control launches new volunteer program. WJBF News Channel 6’s Barclay Bishop has more.
Aiken County Animal Control launches new volunteer program. WJBF News Channel 6’s Barclay Bishop has more.
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These two schnauzer mix dogs disappeared from their home in Grovetown Tuesday night. If you’re an animal lover, keep an eye out for them!
Three sea turtles treated at a South Carolina center have returned to the ocean. The Post and Courier of Charleston reported that more than 500 people gathered on the beach Sunday at Kiawah Island to watch the turtles return to the ocean.
Aiken County Animal Control launches new volunteer program. WJBF News Channel 6’s Barclay Bishop has more.
Zoo Atlanta officials say they need to raise $500,000 to keep their popular giant pandas.
Extra precautions were taken at Riverbanks Zoo, this weekend, after a gorilla briefly got out of his habitat, Friday, and into the public area of the park. Zoo staff inspected all mammal habitats before the park opened, Saturday, and removed any underbrush or landscaping that they thought were too close to an exhibit.
A gorilla is back in its pen after escaping an enclosure at a South Carolina zoo and injuring a worker. Multiple media outlets reported Friday that a gorilla named Mike escaped his exhibit for about five minutes and injured a food service employee. No details immediately were given on the worker’s condition. WJBF News Channel 6’s SC Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has more.
It’s groundbreaking surgery, and the first of its kind to ever be done in the state of Georgia, and it’s brought new hope to one Augusta family…and their pet. A professor from the veterinary school at the University of Georgia, performed the state’s first ever dog knee replacement surgery on a 12-year-old lab. WJBF News Channel 6’s Barclay Bishop has more.
The owners of a dog, named “Rocky”, were in court, Thursday, after complaints he chased kids around a south Augusta neighborhood. Rocky didn’t bite the kids, but neighbors claim he is aggressive. Since the incident, he’s been living at Richmond County Animal Control, waiting for a judge to rule his fate. Barclay Bishop has more in this WJBF News Channel 6 Extra.
They are out of money at the most inconvenient time. Aiken County Animal Shelter employees say their money that provides vouchers to spay and neuter pets, has run out. It’s bad news…and yet good news. WJBF News Channel 6’s Joy Howe explains.
The federal government has closed caves and old mines on U.S. Forest Service land in 13 states in an effort to control the spread of white-nose syndrome, a bat disease that is spread through a fungus.
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