![]() ![]() ![]() Please consider supporting local journalism by subscribing to the Journal Sentinel at /deal. Visit to make a donation and to view the pups and all of the humane society's adoptable pets.Ĭontact Drake Bentley at (414) 391-5647 or Follow him on Twitter at subscribers make this reporting possible. Items can be dropped off or shipped to the shelter at 3650 State Road 60, Slinger, WI. The humane society is looking for donations of Purina Puppy Chow and durable dog toys. "Phones are ringing off the hook and emails are flooding inboxes," the humane society said in a Facebook post Tuesday. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday and from 5-8 p.m. The available dogs can be viewed between 1-5 p.m. The humane society reopened on Tuesday, following the holiday weekend, so the pups are now available for viewing and adoption. But, the Bucks kept their focus and managed to outrun the Wizards by shooting 58.5 when the starters were in the game, and scoring a season-high 142 points. The paper also reports that a motorcyclist crashed but survived when a turkey flew into him (they can fly, say wildlife experts at up to 55 miles an hour).As of Sunday, 41 of the 47 pups had been spayed or neutered. In the San Francisco Bay Area, a Benicia bicyclist died from injuries sustained in a crash when a flock of turkeys ran in front of him, according to the Vallejo Times Herald. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Temperatures are expected to climb into the upper 90s on Wednesday and remain high into Thursday as the National Weather Service issued an excessive heat warning for. "We chased him off with a red chair," the school's principal told the paper. He stood around the school's front door and refused to move. At the Parkway Elementary School, teachers and staff had to defend students from an aggressive male who tried to chase the children. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that last year a rafter of wild turkeys tried muscling its way onto a schoolyard in Glendale, Wis. "But they're capable of it, if they got a running go at it." A 13-year-old boy convicted of cutting the eyes out of a dog. It's rare, says Scarpitti, for a bird to break a window. (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, March 19, 1999) Boy sentenced for disfiguring dog. They can peck hard enough to break glass: A turkey that sees itself reflected in a window will peck the window, believing it to be another bird. "There's a hierarchy among turkeys," says Scarpitti, "a pecking order of sorts: birds peck each other to assert their dominance." A 12-year-old Milwaukee boy allegedly shot and killed a neighbor he played video games with after the man refused to sell guns to the boy. The turkey will interpret that for what it is-proof that you are weak-and will chase you. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel MILWAUKEE, Wis. Confront it directly, he advises yell, wave your arms, shoo it out of your way. For that reason, Scarpitti advises that if you're strolling down a sidewalk and encounter an aggressive tom who declines to move, you should show him who's boss.ĭo not back down do not walk around the bird. Their intelligence helps determine their stance toward humans, says Scarpitti: A bird that tries to intimidate a human being and succeeds will then be more likely to try intimidation again. They have bony, knifelike spurs above their ankles, the better to carve up an opponent, including you. The males ("toms") are formidable creatures that stand 4 feet tall and weigh 25 pounds. Franchise Group is a holding company for a collection of retail brands including Pet Supplies Plus and The Vitamin Shoppe. These are not the kind of turkeys one finds inside a Swanson dinner. The match sets up Wisconsin for its rematch with Nebraska at 3 p.m. It's when a group of turkeys (a "rafter," in wildlife parlance) invade a town or suburb that interspecies conflicts arise and feathers start to fly. Thirty years ago, fish and wildlife departments never expected turkeys would proliferate to the point that they're invading populated areas." They are versatile, adaptive and very successful at breeding. "They have expanded beyond what we ever would have thought. Dave Scarpitti, a wildlife biologist for Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife ("I guess you could call me coordinator of all things turkey," he tells ABC News), says birds in the wild were taken to new wilderness locations to breed. ![]()
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