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#animal-control

Someone shot the monkey after seeing it cross the highway on Monday evening about a mile from the scene of the Oct. 28 crash, Jasper County Sheriff Sheriff Randy Johnson said. Johnson said he was contacted by a person with the transport company who recovered the monkey after a civilian shot it. The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks confirmed Tuesday in a news release that one monkey was still unaccounted for after two of the escaped monkeys were "recovered deceased."

It clamped onto my leg. The tail was flying up here. I was like, 'Get it off me, get off me!'

After months of attempting to capture a runaway German shepherd, Utica Animal Control tracked the dog to its owner and resolved the issue.

A five-foot long lizard that escaped from Webster was found, Webster Animal Control announced Saturday. Goose, a water monitor lizard, had been lost for two weeks from the area of Blueberry Lane.

A large ball python was seen slinking along the road in Somerville, leading to speculation about whether it is an escaped pet. The snake is white with black and brown patches, measuring approximately 3 to 4 feet long.

A 57-year-old woman was hospitalized after being bitten by a dog while working as a caretaker in Hialeah.

From the moment a dog becomes a pet, the collar is part of her new reality. It is the primary marker that this dog "belongs" to someone: the collar holds ID tags with names, phone numbers, and addresses, and it lets strangers know that a wandering pup isn't lost to the world-just misplaced.

"We need animal control out here. [The turkey] is chasing the customers. It's a really big turkey," the caller told 911.