He picked the one friendly place in enemy territory.

A Canada goose that was shot with an arrow by an angry Toms River, NJ, resident crash-landed in the yard of a retired veterinarian, who saved the bird’s life.

“This is a smart goose,” said Bernard Levine, who found the wounded fowl. “With the encroaching civilization and the loss of habitat, these birds are pressed for survival.”

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Someone needs to review their own guidelines.

A health department in Ohio was shut down after it became infested with fleas.

The Fairfield County office was closed for a week while officials blasted it with insecticide. The bugs are not a major health risk — they are just gross.

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Move right in, why don’t you?

Alabama police found a burglar who’d busted into a veterinary clinic passed out inside after he’d injected himself with animal tranquilizer while watching porn on a computer.

Officials say Roman Angel Salinas was lucky — if he had taken any more of the drug, he likely would have died.

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Maybe some horses, too, have nine lives.

A Utah teenager narrowly avoided a nasty fate when he discovered a 70-year-old canister of TNT buried in a pasture behind his house that he was mowing — because the horses had stopped grazing there.

They’d let the family goats mill around in the same area, but animals had always been uninterested in the grass there.