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Saco Main Street hosts furry friends for Paws Downtown
11+ hour, 57+ min ago (199+ words) Hundreds of dogs took a break from their normal walks Saturday afternoon and met at Saco's Governor John Fairfield School for Paws Downtown. The event, formerly known as Bark in the Park, was hosted by Saco Main Street as an…...
Meet Toot, our Adoptable Pet of the Week
3+ week, 3+ day ago (274+ words) This week's featured adoptable pet from the Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland is Toot, a happy-go-lucky dog who has never met a human or dog that wasn't his new best friend. Matt Blanchard of the Animal Refuge League described…...
Whale watching from shore: Humpback whale seen at Maine's Reid State Park
1+ week, 4+ day ago (221+ words) Humpback whales are common along the Maine coast, and sometimes they come close enough to shore for people to see them without going on a boat. Fred Davis of Auburn visited Reid State Park in Georgetown this week and spotted…...
Mama moose charges woman and her dogs in dramatic home surveillance video
1+ week, 3+ day ago (134+ words) A Montana woman’s Ring camera captured her and her dogs having a backyard encounter with a mama moose and her calf. Shelly Thorburn told CNN she let her three dogs outside at her Big Sky home last week, not realizing…...
Meet Nevada, our Adoptable Pet of the Week
1+ week, 3+ day ago (229+ words) This week's featured adoptable pet from the Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland is Nevada, a happy and energetic puppy with a stately name. Nevada is 7 months old and is friendly with people and other dogs, according to Matt Blanchard…...
What a catch! Large shark reeled in at Higgins Beach in Scarborough
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (127+ words) There has been a lot of shark activity along the Maine coast this summer, and Labor Day weekend was no different. Higgins Beach is also near where a lifeguard was dragged under water by a shark at Scarborough Beach State…...
Young humpback whale calf found in Maine river was severely emaciated
2+ week, 4+ day ago (154+ words) Marine Mammals of Maine says the young female calf had very little muscle or fat and few stomach contents The Marine Mammals of Maine stranding hotline received a report of a deceased humpback whale in the New Meadows River in…...
Colorado family wakes to bear having ‘breakfast’ in their kitchen
2+ week, 19+ hour ago (251+ words) said. It wasn't a plant or a picture, but a live bear sitting in their kitchen doorway. "The...
Sharks are still at Maine beaches, lifeguards may not be, for holiday weekend
1+ week, 1+ day ago (176+ words) There have been numerous shark sightings at beaches in Maine this summer, keeping lifeguards very busy. At about noon on Friday, the Kennebunkport Police Department announced a shark had been spotted off Bumpkin Island, just offshore of Kennebunkport. Police said,…...
Rescued seal pups released back into the wild from Maine beach
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (261+ words) calling them in," she said. People can report all live and deceased seal, whale, dolphin, porpoise and...