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Saturday, March 10, 2012

Animals Of the Day

Katrina Ivory embraces her dog after Capt. Gary Coogler pulled it from her smoldering house, heavily damaged by a fire, in Houston. There were no injuries reported and everyone made it out of the home safely, Ivory confirmed.

A dog groomer cuts a dog's hair as part of a grooming test during the 2012 Shanghai International Dog Show in Shanghai, China.

A stray cat lies on a road in front of the debris of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami on Tashirojima island, known as 'Cats island,' off Ishinomaki city, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, two days before the anniversary of the disaster. The tsunami-hit isolated island (well known for more than 80 stray cats who local residents say survived the disaster) is on the way to the recovery.

 An animal keeper wraps a six-month-old Golden Brushtail Possum in a blanket at Wildlife Sydney animal park on March 7. Although rare, the Golden Brushtail Possum is still found in the wild in areas of Tasmania, an island state south of the Australian mainland.

 Rosie, a beagle, explores what is left of her home after it was struck by a tornado in Harrisburg, Ill., Feb. 29. Powerful storms ripped through the Midwest, obliterating homes, churches and businesses across five states.

Endangered Dalmatian pelicans jostle one another in a rare patch of unfrozen water in the Caspian Sea on Feb. 19 at a shipyard near the city of Makhachkala, the capital of the southern Russian province of Dagestan. Dagestan's Nature Protection Ministry spokesman Arslan Dydymov said that about 20 birds have died of hunger despite hundreds of kilograms of fish purchased daily to feed them.

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