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Vet: Dog needs Viagra for heart condition

HUNTINGTON, N.Y.

A New York animal shelter is seeking donations of Viagra to treat a pit bull with a heart condition.

Staff members at the Little Shelter Animal Rescue and Adoption Center in Huntington, on Long Island, say 6-year-old Ingrid needs two of the little blue pills every day or she will risk heart failure. They say a vet suggested it.

The pills cost about $10 apiece, and the shelter has been asking Viagra users to pitch in and donate their unused pills.

Viagra was originally developed as a heart medication but is now used mainly by men to give their sex lives a boost.

Photo-taking hiker is bitten by bear

GATLINBURG, Tenn.

A man was bitten as he was trying to take a picture of a black bear in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, but the injury was minor and did not require medical attention.

The National Park Service said in a release the unidentified man suffered a small puncture wound on his foot after he was bitten on the Laurel Falls Trail to the south of Gatlinburg, Tenn., on Wednesday.

Wildlife biologists captured a 60-pound female bear that visitors reported seeing near the trail. As a matter of park policy, bears that have contact or injure people are euthanized.

The park service said it is likely the bear had been eating food left behind by visitors.

Police: NJ ‘robbery’ was failed drug deal

MIDDLE TOWNSHIP, N.J.

Police in southern New Jersey say a man called to report that he had been robbed after getting angry with someone who sold him fake cocaine.

Middle Township police say 24-year-old Lawrence Walsh called them Thursday and said he had been robbed at a convenience store. Officers soon responded, but the alleged assailant had fled in a cab.

But police learned Walsh bought what he thought was cocaine from Thomas M. Sexton, a 23-year-old Lower Township resident. When he realized it was crushed Sheetrock, he made the robbery report.

Sexton was charged with distribution of imitation drugs, and Walsh was charged with wandering in a public place to purchase drugs.

Neither man returned phone messages Saturday, and it was not known if they had retained lawyers.