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Three Men Go on Trial in Puerto Rico for Dog Massacre

Critter News

These are the 3 that allegedly tossed animals off a bridge to kill them. Animal control workers in October took about 80 pets from the housing project in the northern Puerto Rican town of Barceloneta and allegedly tossed them off a bridge to their deaths. Tags: puerto rico. Caribbean territory.

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The Parakeet of City Streets, the Monk Parakeet

10,000 Birds

But it is most probable that the birds are released or escaped pets. There are a lot of pet psittacines out there that escape or are released. There is the usual anecdote that they escaped from an airport shipment, which sort of makes sense, since Fort Tilden is not that far from Kennedy Airport. After he died in 1987, the U.S.

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