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  1. Meet Sponger, Tarpon Springs High's synthetic cadaver dog
    Yesterday• Photos
    Tarpon Springs High School Veterinary Science Academy students Danielle Ortiz, 16, left, and Ruben Cruz, 16, practice dental numbering on Sponger, the academy’s state-of-the-art synthetic canine cadaver while attending instructor Krissy Tallarino’s Veterinary Assisting III course on Friday in Tarpon Springs. The $45,000 cadaver, created by SynDaver, of Tampa, bleeds, breathes and mimics living tissue with individual muscles, bones, organs, and a complete circulatory system, enabling students to practice surgical skills with anatomical accuracy.
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  2. Tampa Bay area pets available for adoption
    Oct. 21• Pets
    Alex and Purr are two of many animals hoping to find fur-ever homes.
  3. Tampa Bay area pets looking for forever homes
    Oct. 14• Pets
    Daisy and Luke at two of many young pets available for adoption this week.
  5. Tampa’s beloved cat Cole, of Cole and Marmalade fame, has died
    Oct. 11• Pets
    In this 2020 photo, Jessica Josephs holds Cole and her husband Chris Poole holds a cat toy up for Marmalade at their home in Tampa.
  6. Tampa Bay area pets hoping to find forever homes
    Oct. 7• Pets
    Adrian and Boomer are two of many animals looking for loving homes.
  7. Pets on pot: With cannabis edibles everywhere, dogs are getting stoned on walks
    Oct. 2• Bizarre News
    While excess cannabis consumption by canines is not new, cases are growing as more states legalize the drug, and its use becomes more widespread, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
  8. Tampa Bay area pets looking for forever homes
    Oct. 1• Pets
    Conway and Gunther are two of many animals looking for loving homes.
  9. A Florida man had a stroke. His dog went and alerted a neighbor.
    Sep. 24• Florida
    Lothar Weimann plays with his two German Shepherds, Ellie, right, and Willy, in the backyard of his home in Gainesville, Fla. When 68-year-old Weimann suffered a stroke at home in May, Ellie got through three gates and barked furiously to alert a neighbor.
  10. Dave Bautista adopts abused Tampa puppy, offers reward
    Sep. 24• Pets
    Marvel actor and former WWE wrestler Dave Bautista holds Penny, his newly adopted puppy from the Humane Society of Tampa Bay. She was found with a metal chain embedded in her neck that required surgery. Batista offered $5,000 reward for information on the abuser, and celebrity friends and others have added more than $7,000 more.
  11. Tampa Bay area pets looking for loving homes
    Sep. 23• Pets
    Anita and the three Mouseketeers are all looking for loving homes.
  12. Tampa Bay area pets looking for loving homes
    Sep. 16• Pets
    Chrissy and Little Willie are two of many animals looking for forever homes.
  13. Tampa Bay area pets looking for loving homes
    Sep. 9• Pets
    Cade and Eren are two of many animals hoping to find forever families.
  14. Pet obits honor companions who crossed ‘the rainbow bridge’
    Sep. 6• Community News
    Mimi’s obit read, “Mimi had a long happy life and these last couple of months were very hard on her, we’re just glad she’s now in peace. Mimi will be missed but never forgotten.”
  15. Tampa Bay area pets hoping to find forever homes
    Sep. 2• Pets
    Bear and La Bandita are two of many animals hoping to find forever homes.
  16. Tampa Bay area pets hoping to find loving homes
    Aug. 26• Pets
    Miles and Robin are two of many animals looking for forever homes.
  17. Tampa Bay area pets looking for forever homes
    Aug. 19• Pets
    Carl and Gale are two of many animals looking for loving homes.
  18. Tampa Bay area pets looking for forever homes
    Aug. 12• Pets
    Captain and Knight are two of many animals looking for loving homes.
  19. Leave your pet at these swanky Tampa Bay day cares
    Aug. 9• Pets
    Jana Adersone, operations manager of Bay Paws Pet Resort in Clearwater, interacts with dogs in the indoor exercise yard on June 27, 2021.
  20. Tampa Bay area pets looking for loving homes
    Aug. 5• Pets
    Lil' Bear and Nellie are two of many animals hoping to find forever homes.
  21. One of the last cowboys of Dade City
    Jul. 31• Community News
    Randy Barthle says there’s no better day than when he can get on a horse and work cattle.
  22. Tampa Bay area pets looking for forever homes
    Jul. 30• Pets
    Petunia and Tuxy are two of many animals looking for forever homes.
  23. Fire ant life’s expert in USF
    Jul. 24• Community News
    Dr. Deby Cassill has spent 30 years researching the lives of fire ants.
  24. Tampa Bay area pets looking for forever homes
    Jul. 15• Pets
    Luna and Miles are just two puppies, among many animals, available for adoption.
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