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In Boston, a lady had a full face transplant this year following a ferocious attack by her employer’s 200-pound rampaging chimpanzee. She lost her nose, lips, eyelids, and hands, and then, doctors needed to remove her eyes due to an illness sent through the chimp.

In Feb of the year, Florida authorities declared fight against invasive snakes, prospecting people for python patrols. A College of Florida herpetologist known as the move, “ridiculous, ” declaring “You can’t have Joe Schmo getting these snakes.” Kenneth Krysko also told a Reuters reporter that Florida’s move is simply too little, past too far after Burmese python amounts grown throughout decades when sales weren’t outlaws and wildlife agencies had couple of programs to cope with undesirable pets or snakes launched within the wild.

Around Australia, based on an Connected Press story, animals 're going extinct in an alarming rate because of two “critters with voracious appetites, ” the feral cat, introduced to Australia on ships to kill on-board rats, and red-colored foxes, introduced towards the country for hunting.

Within Maine, a Tigard guy lately settled his suit against pet logistics store Petco, after he was bit with a rat bought at Petco’s South Tigard store. He bought the rat to give to his son’s pet boa constrictor. “He might have died, ” stated Dominic Profenno Jr’s attorney. “He spent considerable time at Maine Clinic after which Colonial Rehab Hospital.” A Ten-year-old California boy did die of rat-bite fever in Feb.

In Auburn a couple of years back, firefighters showed up in a fire inside a third-floor tenement house to locate boa constrictors slivering all around the apartment. They saved a number of them, but others died within the fire.