Between 1809 and 1816 Bailey toured with the elephant, walking with the animal from town to town under the cover of night in order to prevent anyone from having a free look at the beast.
Claudia Boldt's "You're a Rude Pig, Bertie!" explores the perils of the guest list from a different perspective, that of a boorish pig who has managed to offend nearly every animal in town.
Move over Millie the adventure cat, there's a new adorable exploring animal in town, and his name is Biddy the hedgehog.
This argument rests partly on an analogy between body size in animals and town size.
The weekend is dedicated to the Saturday-night headliners, Super Furry Animals, home-town heroes of a sort who recently reunited for the 20th anniversary of their Welsh-language album Mwng.
AMERICANS never turn sentimental about something of real value -- wilderness, wild animals, small towns, baseball, mountain music, our privacy -- until the way we live and do business has pressed it to the edge of extinction.
There are also occasional town animal overviews.
The fox squirrel had been a relatively common animal in the town; after the spraying, it was gone.
The dogs' owners often take the animal out of town to seek medical attention or use DIY kits sold over the internet to avoid alerting authorities.
But it's better not to tempt fate by transporting an animal to the town that, legend has it, experienced a highly successful rodent eradication scheme.
The authorities say that Dutch's fate is his owners' fault and that Mr. Marano signed a form after the fight authorizing Huntington's town animal shelter to put the dog to death.
