State wildlife agents said they had no choice but to kill a cougar in a Bossier City neighborhood after a tranquilizer dart didn't work fast enough. The cougar was spotted in a tree Sunday afternoon ...

In the movies, when an animal gets shot with a tranquilizer dart, it succumbs quickly. That’s not how it goes with Scrim, the Crescent City’s celebrated escape-artist dog. When Scrim was stung with ...

It was 5 a.m. on a July morning on Banks Street. Using a tranquilizer dart gun that looked like an assault rifle, a volunteer veterinarian drew a bead on a wire-haired terrier mix named Scrim. The dog ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—In order for an animal tranquilizer gun to work, it has to fire darts at a rather particular speed. Too slow, and the dart bounces off the animal without injecting the sedative. Too ...

Re “The SDPD’s freeway fiasco” (Dec. 12): It seems to me that the proper response to someone threatening to jump onto a freeway should be to:1) Get the cushion into position.2) Tell the potential ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A four-legged visitor's tour of an Upstate New York city drew celebrity-level attention — and a police response — on Monday. A ...

Climbing higher didn't help a bear escape Tuesday morning. After being hit by a dart, a bear that closed streets in Albany, New York, fell into a net under the tree that had been spread by officers.

CHAFFEE COUNTY, Colo. — Nearly four years after Suzanne Morphew was last seen in Chafee County, new details have surfaced regarding her death. Her remains were found last fall in Saguache County and ...