41.   Several farm dogs that were either abandoned or attacked during the farm seizures were put to sleep Friday.

42.   Sonu was to have been put to sleep with an overdose of tranquilizers earlier this week.

43.   Three puppies were donated Tuesday by Davy Harkins, a school board member who operates a shelter where animals are put to sleep for the local pound.

44.   Veterinarians at Muenster Zoo in northern Germany on Tuesday put to sleep a day-old elephant that had struggled to breathe on its own.

45.   Veterinary officials said the diagnosis was based on an autopsy in neighboring Switzerland after the cat had been put to sleep.

46.   Zurich zoo said Sunday that the elephant cow was put to sleep Saturday after experts decided she was too dangerous to keep.

47.   Bane, the male dog, was put to sleep by police that same night.

48.   Eventually he was put to sleep despite thousands of letters from children begging for his life to be spared.

49.   Knuckles said Irvan was awake until he was put to sleep before medical treatment.