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Statements about Animals
Central Falls Police Department

Central Falls Police Department

Pants on Fire!

Cat-agorically untrue

"Statistics show one male cat can father 420,000 kittens in five years."

Peter Palumbo

Peter Palumbo

Half-True

Flying dog claim distracts from real risk

Driving with a dog in your lap is dangerous, in part, because it could fly forward in a crash. "An 80-pound dog at only 30 mph packs a 2,400-pound punch."

Pew Environment Group

Pew Environment Group

Mostly False

30 years ago is "recent"?

"In recent years, menhaden numbers along our coast have plummeted by 90 percent."

Sheldon Whitehouse

Sheldon Whitehouse

Half-True

The facts that got away

"No one in Rhode Island -- not just children, no one in Rhode Island -- should eat more than one serving of freshwater fish caught in our state each month."

Chain email

Chain email

Pants on Fire!

Good joke. Don't believe it.

"What is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons? Believe it or not . . . a Congress!"

E.J. Finocchio

E.J. Finocchio

False

There is an association, but it's not "most."

"Most of your serial killers, most of your people who commit domestic violence, they start off by abusing animals."

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