Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Cats In The News
Looking at MSN today they seem cat happy:
'Miracle' cat survives high-speed, 70-mile ride
Male kitty was stuck in the underbelly of a sport utility vehicle Dixon-Aquino said Miracle probably climbed under the SUV and was asleep when the journey began. Somehow, the cat avoided being mangled by fan blades and other moving parts as he clung to the car.
Ahh, there's no better beginning to a morning than to go outside and start your car and hear the sound "RREEEOWWWWW - THUP THUP THUP THUP THUP" caused by a sleeping cat that got caught in the fan blades when you started your car. Unfortunantly this one escaped.
'Emily' returns to Wisconsin after two months in France
Emily vanished from her Appleton home in late September. She apparently wandered into a nearby paper company’s distribution center and crawled into a container of paper bales. The container went by truck to Chicago and by ship to Belgium before the cat was found Oct. 24 at Raflatac, a laminating company in Nancy, France. Workers there used her tags to phone her veterinarian, who called the McElhineys.
Proof you can go a couple of weeks and not worry about feeding and watering a cat.
Ungrateful cat rescued after five days in tree
Collarless tabby ran away after rescue
Why you shouldn't worry about feeding one but once every two weeks.
Kitten dumper to spend cold night in woods
Woman should feel what abandoned animals experienced, judge says.
An Ohio woman will spend the night outside for dumping 33 kittens in the woods. The overnight temperature in the area tonight is expected to dip into the 20s. Michelle Murray, a former animal rescuer, will have no food or shelter but will have water and a way to communicate with park rangers in case of and emergency. Judge Michael Cicconetti said he wanted Murray to feel what the kittens experienced. The animals were recovered but many had upper respiratory infections, and nine died.
I don't often use this but WTF? I'm sorry, but did those kittens have a water bottle and a cell phone to use for a Park Ranger to come to the rescue? I don't think so. I wouldn't exactly call this "what the abandoned animals experienced". She should be blindfolded and dropped somewhere in the Pacific Northwest having no idea where in the hell she is with the approximate odds of her dying being 9 in 33. No food, water, or cell phone. These weren't cats or the sad excuse for a pet minature taco bell dog that Paris and Britany carry around - they were cute little innocent kittens!
