Neighbors and wildlife lovers turned out in Golden Gate Estates today to help build chain-link enclosures to keep pets and livestock safe from predators such as panthers, coyotes or wild dogs. About five months ago, 27 goats and four sheep were killed across the road. Now the dogs will be safe in a cage that measures 10-feet by 16-feet and is sheltered overhead by a tarp. Defenders of Wildlife Florida director Laurie Macdonald said today s event was videotaped as an instructional tool so...

Turn the page for a quick guide to rediscovering four of our tastiest neighborhoods, including (since you're making the trip) good reasons to visit beyond the gastronomic delights. No, the spa won't win any decor awards, but the acupressure-based massage (or the televised Chinese soap opera) will transport you. A hearty morning meal usually consists of steamed meat buns and fluffy, savory pastries, with sweet or savory soy milk soup (perhaps the one thing here requiring a utensil) Valley...

NZPA . Saturday, 2 June 2007 Email a Friend . Printable View . Have Your Say Related Links Subscribe to Archivestuff Have your say The main world body for animal health has recognised New Zealand as having "negligible" risk of mad cow disease, scientificially known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) NZPA . Saturday, 2 June 2007 Email a Friend . Printable View . Have Your Say Related Links Subscribe to Archivestuff Have your say The main world body for animal health has recognised...

Keating makes good on the animal lover claim - her own home includes a "hobby farm" with a dozen horses, goats and a pot-bellied pig named Cuddles. Keating, who works as a probation officer in Martinsville, joined with Potter, who works at Menard's, to fill their odd hours by caring for animals big and small. Keating started the business when friends frequently asked her to watch their pets, deciding her love of and experience with animals would work as a job. If Kathy Keating had to...

For 30 years, "Killer of Sheep" has been a legend in film circles, one of those films lionized by filmmakers and critics that next to no one has actually seen. Made by Charles Burnett as his MFA thesis film at UCLA in the early 1970s, "Killer of Sheep" never got a theatrical release, despite being hailed as one of the most assured filmmaking debuts in American history, and later being named by the Library of Congress as one of the first movies on its National Film Registry. Made by Charles...

One study by Lincoln University, in New Zealand, found that 2,849kg of carbon dioxide is produced for every tonne of lamb raised in Britain, while just 688kg of the gas is released with imported New Zealand lamb, even after it has travelled the 11,000 miles to Britain. But with such astonishing "food miles" being accumulated, it is little surprise that their environmental impact is coming under scrutiny and sparking a backlash. One study by Lincoln University, in New Zealand, found that...