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He’s a dog-gone no more. A $4,300 puppy stolen from a New Jersey pet store has been returned.

The dognapper was caught on surveillance footage leaving The Pet Shoppe in Middletown with a 9-week-old cockapoo Thursday.

The the 2-pound pup was returned Saturday and is “doing great,” the store’s manager said.

Oh, deer, that’s not a pet! A Georgia couple spotted with a 1-week-old deer in a dog-food aisle at a Georgia Walmart was cited by state wildlife officials for illegally owning the fawn.

The man was seen pushing a shopping cart as his wife held the tiny deer in the store May 18.

Tennessee is set to become the first in the nation to criminalize camping on public property, including parks.

The law, which takes effect July 1, makes doing so a felony.

Backers believe the ban will help curb homelessness.

For the second time in two years, combatants armed with pool noodles duked it out for “Josh” naming rights at a Nebraska park.

About 200 people raised nearly $21,000 for a children’s hospital at Saturday’s mock duels in Lincoln, which started as a Twitter challenge by University of Arizona student Josh Swain over the right to his first name.

Josh Vinson Jr., 5, who won last year, snagged the title again, the Lincoln Journal Star reported.

A book nearly 64 years overdue was returned to a British library after being discovered more than 1,000 miles away in Croatia.

A copy of Virginia Rowan’s “The Loving Couple” was checked out in 1958 from Gainsborough Community Library in Ipswich.

The tome ended up in a donation bag at Dubrovnik Libraries, which returned the missing novel.