Feds to Pittsburgh Zoo: Stop using cattle dogs to herd elephants

By Rob QuinnPublished February 04, 2015Newser Facebook0 Twitter0 Email Print Moja, left, a 28-year-old African elephant, and her two daughters, Zuri, 3, center rear, and Victoria, 11, all born at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, are seen in the zoo's elephant habitat. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Using dogs bred to herd cattle to control elephants hasn't worked out so well at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, according to federal authorities. The Department of Agriculture has ordered the zoo to stop using cattle dogs in ways that cause "behavioral stress" to its African elephants, the Guardian reports. Federal inspectors at the zoo last month found that the dogs had...