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This is just absolutely terrible! (Though don't cry, the dog in the above pic is only sleeping, we promise.)

In Mokattam, Eqypt government vets are literally poisoning stray dogs!!

After two children were violently attacked by strays, their families pressured vets to kill off the dogs.

What's crazy is they've been using strychnine, a deadly pesticide.

That means that there's just poison in the streets, so anyone and other animal life can get really sick and die as well.

Tags: dog, egypt, kill, killed, murder, poison, poisoned, sad, strychnine, vet, vets

So kiss the world goodbye! Snakes are making it out alive…ON PLANES!

Again, Samuel L. Jackson has been slacking off, because an Egyptian plane is the latest aircraft to fall victim to monkey-fighting snakes on Monday to Friday planes.

But this time, the snake's OWNER tried to sneak his serpent on board!

Tags: akram abdul latif, crazy, egypt, egyptian cobra, kuwait, planes, snake, snakes on a plane

The dung beetle is one of the biggest and grossest beetles.

And not gross just because it's a giant bug, but because it loves to recycle dung to use as a centerpiece for its home.

Gross.

Check out what the ancient Egyptians called a scarab and we call yucky in the above video.

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Incredible!

just as weeks of protests forced the resignation of former president Hosni Mubarak, a coalition of organizations and activists in Egypt have banded together to demand an overhaul of animal treatment within the countr, they hope that a citizen demonstration will shed a light on the issue of animal rights.

Animal welfare groups announced that a protest will take place outside the Giza Zoo on April 16 to bring to light matters ranging from the state of the zoo itself to illegal wildlife trades, unregulated pet breeding and the government's propensity for shooting or poisoning homeless animals in order to control their population.

The protest press release described Giza's horrible conditions:

"The way Egypt treats animals is a shame. The Giza Zoo is a national disgrace, Egypt has become known as a hub of the international illegal trade in wildlife, and the municipal policy of controlling street animal populations by shooting and poisoning is deplorable. At the root of all this is a not only systemic corruption but also policy failure, as Egypt is lacking even the basic animal welfare legislation that would enable the prosecution of violators."

We think this a purrrfect time to seek animal reform in Egypt.

If you're going to reform a nation, why stop at its human citizens?

[Image via WENN.]

Tags: activists, animal rights, animals, egypt, government, homeless, international, pet, teddy, treatment, wildlife, zoo

Got cha!

And they put out this picture to prove it!

The Egyptian Cobra, which had been missing for seven days, caused a media frenzy; the cobra immediately shot to superstardom on Twitter, garnering more than 200,000 followers!

But the mystery of the missing cobra came to an end Thursday when Bronx Zoo workers found the elusive reptile in the zoo's Reptile House.

The Director of the Bronx Zoo and Senior VP of Living Institutions, Wildlife Conservation Society.

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Sure, it was 2,500 years ago. But that doesn't stop us from wanting to back hand ancient Egyptians for this recently discovered puppy mass murder.

Newly discovered catacombs beneath the Egyptian desert are estimated to contain the remains of up to eight million dogs, many of which would have been offered to the gods when they were just hours old.

Others would have been treated as living representatives of the dog or jackal-headed god Anubis and would have lived out their lives in the nearby temple before being preserved and laid to rest in the network of tunnels.

The catacomb lies ten to twelve metres underground, and was built 2,500 years ago under the Saqqara desert.

Some of the dogs were killed and mummified just days or even hours after birth.

Scientists belive that in order to mummify so many dogs (perhaps thousands per year), it is likely the animals were bred in puppy farms.

The ancient Egyptian people probs bought the dogs, then paid for them to be mummified, in the hope of currying favour with the canine-headed god, Anubis.

The Saqqara desert also contains catacombs dedicated to bulls, cows, baboons, ibises, hawks and cats.

This this brutal practice is thought to have died out after the Romans conquered Egypt in 30BC.

Tags: canine, dog, dogs, egypt, killed, pup, puppy, puppy mills, sad, scientists

And the People's Choice for Best Zookeeper goes to….

Staff was alerted Saturday that the adolescent Egyptian cobra was missing from an off-exhibit enclosure, according to a statement from the zoo. Staff members closed and secured the reptile house.

Zoo officials said they are confident the 20-inch-long snake is contained in a nonpublic, isolated area of the building.

We say skip the zoo, this week, (We hear there's a Real Housewives marathon on anyway).

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