I don’t want to alarm anyone, but the Daily Mail is reporting that a 4-eared CAT has been spotted. It’s terrifying and I feel that I am the only person who can properly care for it. So, please, if the current owners would just email me at tom@bearscare.org with the subject line “4 EAR CAT” (I get tons of mail) it would be great.
Here’s a link to the article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1046684/Meet-Yoda-cat-FOUR-ears.html
More bear news. I don’t have much to say about this, but I’m just putting here to be complete. Here’s what happened:
It’s HIGHLY unlikely the bear would put up with a dog chewing on it. What’s much more likely is the peace-loving bear just wanted to avoid conflict and knew he couldn’t reason with the dog on the ground.
Here’s the link: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/08/07/pkg.bear.treed.wtlv
This is absolutely tragic. These sickos in Peru dress up their Guinea pigs, take them out for parade and slaughter them. And then they eat them right then and there. Hey! I have an idea! Let’s take a bunch of PEOPLE and parade them down Broadway and eat them. How about that?
I’m really sad to report some sad news tonight. Apparently some guy driving a street sweeper in The Bronx ran over the dog pictured below and killed her as her owner still held her leash. Why did this happen? Well, for one, we all know truck drivers hate dogs. I would guess that street sweeper drivers feel the same way. Also, the driver may not have a soul and that would explain a lot.
OK, everybody, it’s time for a break. I’ve been covering relevant animal news now for some time and have been helping all of you to the tune of 3000 hits (that’s enormous in internet terms) since the site’s creation a way back who knows when. Would you believe the only animal news on CNN today is this stupid video featuring a dog and a sheep? That’s BORING. So, on this Sunday evening, I’m going to tell you about my cat, Skittles. Well, our cat. Here’s the story.
My fiancee and I had been itching to get a pet. We already have some fish. The biggest fish is Amadeus. When we got him, we also had three others: Punky Brewster, Lucius Tertius and Jimmy Tango. However, Amadeus systematically killed off his tank mates. First went Lucius, then Punky and finally Jimmy. It turns out that Amadeus had been pregnant, though, and he was just making room for his son, Hush Puppy who’s a happy, healthy fry right now. But that’s neither here nor there. The point is fish don’t make loyal companions.
Another bit of important tid-bit of background is that my apartment building, a high-rise in Crystal City (Arlington, VA) is beginning to fall apart. Knowing this, management sold it to Bainbridge Companies, which is definitely the sorriest property management company ever. Just ask Catherine (who’s in the property management business). Well, we found out that Bainbridge was allowing animals in the building when we heard a dog barking upstairs. A couple days later we were at Petsmart perusing the cats. Here’s a picture of Skittles in her cage.
Some time back we had decided that “Skittles” would be a great name for a cat, especially if it was a really mean cat. We named this cat Skittles but she turned out just to be stupid. A stupid cat? Yes. Skittles is pretty dense. She’s extremely clumsy, more interested in tin foil and Catherine’s hair than very realistic rabbit’s fur mice and she doesn’t bury her treasures in the litter box.
Actually, the litter box situation is pretty funny. See, Skittles LOVES to eat. She eats all the time and throws a fit if her bowl is empty. And with all that food she produces a lot of waste. Cleaning litter boxes doesn’t bother me at all. Even scooping Skittle’s box daily would have been fine, but daily isn’t enough with this cat. Since she doesn’t bury, a fresh box is only fresh until she uses it, which is very, very frequently. It was getting to the point where my entire apartment smelled like her litterbox everyday when I came home from work. We got the Littermaid to clean up after her for each visit to the box just so the apartment would be tolerable.
Here’s Skittles inside her food bag, eating, because she finished off her bowl.
Unusual traits aside, Skittles is a really great cat. I think we’re going to get her a buddy, though, and name him Kringle. Kringle will probably be a Siamese.
So, these two high school kids were driving to school one day (in Oregon) and saw this kangaroo-hamster looking thing in the road. Since they weren’t murderers, the stopped the car to peep it out rather than just running it over like some other Oregonians might. It turns out the beast was a cavy–a large Argentinian rodent. It’s actually really sweet. They want to keep it, but it’s probably somebody’s pet. Also, they don’t know what it eats (have you kids ever heard of google?). Anyways, here’s a link to the video on CNN. As soon as this is available to embed, I will.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2008/04/16/dnt.weird.animal.kgw
