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PETA Provides New Tribute To Barney The Bull On Long Island PETA Provides New Tribute To Barney The Bull On Long Island
PETA Provides New Tribute To Barney The Bull On Long Island Gone, but never forgotten. The animal formerly known as Barney, the elusive bull who spent months on the run across Long Island after escaping from a slaughterhouse is now the face of a new ad campaign for PETA celebrating a meat-free lifestyle. Original story - No Bull: Barney Captured After Months On The Run In Suffolk County The bull - who has settled into a new permanent home at a New Jersey animal sanctuary and is now known as Hannibal - has become the face of a new campaign for PETA and the Long Island Orchestrating for Nature (LION) touting veganism. To celebrate the bull’s escape …

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by Zak Failla
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Cow Now: Long Island Animal Rescuers Hope New Method Will Help Lure Bull On Lose Cow Now: Long Island Animal Rescuers Hope New Method Will Help Lure Bull On Lose
Cow Now: Long Island Animal Rescuers Hope New Method Will Help Lure Bull On Lose Police on Long Island have handed over the reins to several animal rescue groups in the search for a 1,500-pound bull that escaped from a farm earlier in the week. Suffolk County Police said the bull was last seen in a nature preserve on the evening of Tuesday, July 20. Authorities said the bull broke through a fence on a farm in Manorville earlier that day. The bull has been spotted in Mastic and Shirley.  SCPD officers responded to 911 calls reporting a bull running loose on Montgomery Avenue in Mastic at approximately 8:20 a.m.  The bull is still loose, and all sightings should be re…

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by Nicole Valinote
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Long Island Community Cries Fowl Over Alleged Killing Of Geese Long Island Community Cries Fowl Over Alleged Killing Of Geese
Long Island Community Cries Fowl Over Alleged Killing Of Geese A Long Island community is rallying around a neighborhood’s goose population as an area school district allegedly removed the animal from school grounds, possibly killing them. The animal activist group Long Island Orchestrating for Nature (LION) is accusing officials at Islip High School of hiring the USDA to gather up the geese, their babies, and kill them. It remains unclear if the geese were killed, though according to LION, a whistleblower said that the district has been using taxpayer money to round up and murder mother geese and their babies. “Islip High School (is) a school borderi…

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by Zak Failla
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Reward Offered For Help Nabbing Long Island Goose Shooter Reward Offered For Help Nabbing Long Island Goose Shooter
Reward Offered For Help Nabbing Long Island Goose Shooter A reward has been offered for information that leads to the arrest of a person who shot a goose in the neck with a crossbow on Long Island. PETA and the Long Island Orchestrating for Nature (LION) are each offering up to $2,500 for information that leads to the arrest and animal cruelty conviction of whoever shot a goose at Mill Pond in Wantagh. PETA and LION began efforts to assist the goose on Saturday, April 11, and they were able to gently grab the bird on Monday, April 13 to treat him. The goose was rushed to a rehabilitation center, where he underwent surgery to remove the arrow. Whe…

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by Zak Failla