Chew on This - $20,000 Pooch, Obamouse and More!

May 28th 2010

Rounding up our favorite animal stories, photos, and videos on the web each week!

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  Pricey Training

  For just $20,000, you can have your own specially trained bomb-sniffing dog. We're sure he's worth the money but for that much, maybe he can do other tricks as well? Just asking.[via The Hill]

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  Sneaky Antelopes

  Male antelopes feign danger to keep females in heat close -- thereby giving themselves more opportunities to mate. Wonder where they learned that old trick? [via Time]

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  Movin' on Up

  Although they live in a traffic light now, these sparrows hope someday to find a posh pad in the Times Square Jumbotron. [via the New York Post]

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  Four More Y--Hey, What's That?

  "My fellow Americans, this filibuster is just serving as a distraction from-- Whoa, is that a mouse?" [via Yahoo]

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  The Squirreling Has Come

  In Georgia, 17,000 people lost power when a squirrel invaded a power plant, a blatant first attack in the Great Human-Squirrel War. [via AJC]