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Wolf's missing leg puzzles zookeepers
Chicago Tribune & AP ^ | March 3, 2006

Posted on 03/03/2006 4:45:33 PM PST by HoosierHawk

Officials at Brookfield Zoo say they have no idea how a Mexican gray wolf's front right leg was torn off. The male wolf was in its exhibit Wednesday when zookeepers discovered that the limb was gone. Director of veterinary services Tom Meehan says the wolf likely lost its leg in some sort of accident before the zoo opened that day. Zookeepers searched the exhibit yesterday but couldn't find the missing leg. Meehan says it was a clean break in the middle of its lower leg.

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The wolf lost a leg and the zookeepers can't find it.
1 posted on 03/03/2006 4:45:34 PM PST by HoosierHawk
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To: HoosierHawk

Blind date?


2 posted on 03/03/2006 4:46:09 PM PST by Spok (Est omnis de civilitate.)
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To: HoosierHawk

Chupacabra??


3 posted on 03/03/2006 4:46:41 PM PST by pissant
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To: HoosierHawk

Clearly a case of coyote ugly.


4 posted on 03/03/2006 4:46:50 PM PST by Ben Ficklin
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To: pissant

UFO aborted mutilation attempt


5 posted on 03/03/2006 4:48:54 PM PST by GeronL (http://flogerloon.blogspot.com)
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To: HoosierHawk

It's Bush's fault.


6 posted on 03/03/2006 4:49:09 PM PST by Cornpone (Who Dares Wins -- Defame Islam Today -- Tell the Truth About Mohammed)
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To: HoosierHawk
The title you used was changed to the original published title.

Please do not alter titles.
7 posted on 03/03/2006 4:49:32 PM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: HoosierHawk

8 posted on 03/03/2006 4:50:09 PM PST by cmsgop ( I love Scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch)
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To: Admin Moderator

Understood.


9 posted on 03/03/2006 4:50:16 PM PST by HoosierHawk
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To: HoosierHawk

So is CNN going to keep him anyway?


10 posted on 03/03/2006 4:50:46 PM PST by pollyannaish
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To: GeronL

Or Maddy Albright in search of another drumstick?


11 posted on 03/03/2006 4:51:01 PM PST by pissant
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To: HoosierHawk

It is a wolf pack after all.


12 posted on 03/03/2006 4:51:14 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..".Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity"GW Bush)
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To: Cornpone

(Look at the "keywords.")


13 posted on 03/03/2006 4:51:40 PM PST by My2Cents ("The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth." -- Winston Churchill)
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To: Ben Ficklin

Maybe it was wolf ugly in the beginning and somebody changed it to coyote ugly as wolves became scarce....


14 posted on 03/03/2006 4:51:58 PM PST by GW and Twins Pawpaw (Sheepdog for Five [My grandkids are way more important than any lefty's feelings!])
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The male wolf was in its exhibit Wednesday when zookeepers discovered that the limb was gone.

I hate when that happens.

15 posted on 03/03/2006 4:52:29 PM PST by My2Cents ("The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth." -- Winston Churchill)
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To: Spok
lol.

That one didn't occur to me.
16 posted on 03/03/2006 4:54:24 PM PST by HoosierHawk
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To: GW and Twins Pawpaw

It's in the bag.

17 posted on 03/03/2006 4:59:40 PM PST by bannie (The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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The wolf lost a leg and the zookeepers can't find it.

Did they check e-Bay?

18 posted on 03/03/2006 5:01:36 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("Facts are a Zionist plot!" --MarkL)
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To: HoosierHawk

"Honest Fred...I don't knowwhere it went."

19 posted on 03/03/2006 5:02:21 PM PST by bannie (The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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To: HoosierHawk

Problably woke up and found his leg around Helen Thomas.


20 posted on 03/03/2006 5:02:33 PM PST by Doohickey (If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice...I will choose freewill.)
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