Going a Little Wild: When Animals Have Fun

It's not just humans who play around or treat themselves to junkfood! Whether they live in the wild, in zoos, or as pets in our homes, animals also like to horse around or pig out every once in a while.

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LA Natural Gas Leak May Be Sickening Animals

As she visited her American quarter horse at stables just east of the Porter Ranch section of Los Angeles, Debra Zavatto came across a frightening sight: blood coming out of the animal's nose.  In the 13 years she's cared for Scarlett, Zavatto had never seen anything like that.  "People were saying, 'Oh, this stuff is giving nosebleeds,'" she said of the natural gas leak that has sickened residents of Porter Ranch. "I thought, 'Oh my God, I wonder if my horse got a nosebleed from the gas.'"

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Olympic Horse Used Stem Cell Therapy

Ravel, a horse competing at the 2012 London Olympics, underwent stem cell therapy treatment that helped heal a possibly career-ending injury to one of his legs, according to the Helen Woodward Animal Center in California. Ravel, a regular client of Rodrigo Vazquez of Equine Surgical Services at the center, is believed to be the first Olympian to benefit from a stem cell-based treatment. Ravel is now the highest scoring horse on Team USA at the Olympics.

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The Other Seabiscuit: Spooked Horse Swims Two Miles Offshore

An Arabian show horse named William was rescued this past week after he got spooked and ran into the open ocean, swimming two miles out to sea. The 7-year-old horse bolted from a beach photo shoot near Santa Barbara, California and plunged into the ocean, launching a rescue effort that included helicopter searchers.

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