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New fines for leaving an animal in a car, failing to groom and care
It will be legal to break into a car to save an animal; it will be illegal to deny access to an assistance animal to taxis and Uber, shops and businesses.
- by Kirsten Lawson
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Swiss reject plan to entice herders not to cut off cow and goat horns
Critics, led by Armin Capaul, say dehorning the animals - with a red-hot iron - causes pain and they want farmers to get a subsidy for letting the horns grow.
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'Shock, horror and anger': Deer found hanging off Sydney bridge
Boat-owners said they were horrified when they saw the body hanging by the neck from the bridge high above the Georges River.
- by Jim Gainsford