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Down two legs, and who knows how many lives, a Florida cat missing 11 days somehow arrived home. Tracie Steger lost hope after search parties and fliers failed to turn up her beloved Giggle-Blizzard. She winced after hearing a car had hit a kitty, and raced to scare off a vulture with a suspicious whisker in its teeth.
An actor who stomped his girlfriend's cat to death has resolved his case with 500 hours of volunteering.
A cat went from meow to ow when officials say it accidentally made contact with a substation's fuse, causing an outage to about 1,500 homes and businesses in southwestern Illinois. The feline apparently survived the encounter early Monday in the Greene County city of Carrollton.
A black cat showed affection by crawling up and down a Texas police officer in a friendly display captured on the patrol car's dashcam. Taylor police Officer Keith Urban was seen being patient with the cat, whose image was captured during a recent traffic stop, then finally gently booting the kitty away.
A 13-year-old Iowa cat has been infected with swine flu, veterinary and federal officials said Wednesday, and it is believed to be the first case of the H1N1 virus in a feline.
It's now illegal in one Massachusetts town to own more than three cats without getting a special license. Voters at a town meeting in Dudley on Monday night added language to a town bylaw that makes it illegal to own more than three cats without a $50 residential kennel license. Dudley is about 60 miles southwest of Boston.
A cat who rode two miles through New York City while stuck in the engine compartment of an SUV has lived to meow about it. Wilfred Rodriguez heard rattling while he was driving Monday in the Bronx. After he parked, he spotted a bushy tail and a paw sticking out of the SUV's front end.
California animal control officials say they've taken 77 cats from a home in one of the worst animal hoarding cases they've seen in Sacramento County. SWAT team members on Wednesday found cat cages stacked floor to ceiling, animals roaming everywhere and feces caked around the home of Paul and Kathy Franco.
BC the cat survived, but likely used up one of his nine lives when someone shot an arrow through his head. The 2-year-old gray and white tabby came home one day last week looking like he was doing a bad imitation of the Steve Martin skit from the 1970s. BC's arrow was pointing front-to-back rather than side-to-side.
Investigators say a Philadelphia teenager wrapped a cat in duct tape, put it in a shopping bag and left it in a neighbor's backyard.
A cat named Clyde was reunited with his owner on Wednesday after a mysterious three-year odyssey in which the long-haired Himalayan strayed 2,400 miles into the Australian Outback.
A Boynton Beach man was trying to teach his cat a lesson when he fired his gun, but the efforts landed him in jail. Police said a 43-year-old man was upset that his cat used his bed instead of a litter box. So he took the cat to the garage and fired a handgun into a flotation device to "scare it." The cat was not injured, but the man was charged with shooting in an occupied dwelling and using a firearm while under the influence.
A woman's pet cat has been found alive, buried beneath debris 26 days after an Ohio fire. Sandy LaPierre says she assumed 1-year-old Smoka had died from the Aug. 10 fire in Franklin, about 30 miles north of Cincinnati. The blaze broke out in a building housing a flower shop and LaPierre's second-floor apartment.
Police say a New York City man called them to claim he had accidentally shot his wife and their cat in their home and then he apparently shot himself.
A self-employed graphic designer methodically killed at least four of his girlfriend's cats and tortured two others while the unsuspecting woman continued to adopt new ones over a four-month period, authorities said Friday.
Nora the piano-playing cat is living the Hollywood life in Philadelphia.
The family of a 73-year-old Alaska man who fell from a tree after rescuing a cat last month decided to have his breathing tube removed.
Florida investigators say a man accused of downloading child pornography is blaming his cat. Keith Griffin of Jensen Beach is charged with 10 counts of possession of child pornography after detectives found more than 1,000 images on his home computer.
A Connecticut landlord has been accused of using a pellet gun to kill a cat on his property because the tenant didn't pay a $25 fee for it.
A Georgetown University student was arrested for DUI in Hollywood, Fla., after a police car rear-ended her. Charges were dropped after dash-cam footage indicated that cops tried to frame her for the incident: “I knew that’s not what happened that night,” she said.
Officials on the west coast of Florida are crafting new safeguards after mistakenly euthanizing a woman's cat. Maria Velez's cat "Buddy" had been quarentined for four days at a Hernando County Animmal Services shelter after biting a pet sitter. But when she and her 11-year-old son went to pick up the orange, tiger-stripe cat they found it had been mistakenly euthanized.
When an Ohio man vacated his foreclosed home near Akron, he left behind nearly 100 cats and a stench. Rescuers have been chasing cats in the Lakemore house for two weeks, and there are still some felines left. Cats were found in the heating ducts, under furniture and mattresses and in dressers, closets and cabinets.
A woman accused of keeping 150 cats in her New Jersey mansion has been ordered to pay more than $35,000 in fines and restitution. Wanda Oughton pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of animal cruelty for failing to provide adequate shelter. The judge in Chester Township Municipal Court also told the 62-year-old she's not allowed to own more than six cats over the next three years.
A woman planting tomatoes in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley said she was shocked when the was turning over the soil in her garden to plant tomatoes and found cat paws sticking out. Patricia Lutz called police after making the discovery on Thursday at her home. A state trooper responded and dug up the rest of the cat.
A big cat picked the wrong little dogs for a fight. Chiquita the Chihuahua and Rosie the border terrier chased off a cougar that strayed into this small town near the Oregon State University campus. The dogs' owner, Loren Wingert, said Chiquita and Rosie are tough, but lucky.
Firefighters launch rescue operation to help cat who hid in floating duck house A cat who decided to try his luck and venture across an icy pond to reach a floating duck house had a nasty shock yesterday.
Octopus, cat and shotgun are among items left on trainsA dead octopus, a cat and part of a shotgun are among the items passengers have left on trains this year, according to rail companies. Hundreds of items are handed into the lost property offices at stations by rail workers who find them abandoned on trains.
As there is a gross over population of dogs and cats, as evidenced by the many homeless pet shelters and feral dogs and cats running wild in our country, it would seem pretty obvious that so long as there is the need for a homeless shelter for these animals, then breeders generat …
Cat glued to Minnesota highway survives* Cat found glued to highway * Paws ripped off when it was moved * Animal adoption agency shocked A CAT is lucky to be alive after he was found with his paws glued to a highway in the US.
The Cats' HouseFeline lovers, get ready for some pie-in-the-sky dreams come true: The Cats' House designed by Japanese architecture firm Fauna+DeSIGN is dizzying in the amount of playful, yet tastefully designed, details created to amuse 16 very fortunate felines.
CAT scan cancer fear: Radiation 'could trigger the disease in one in 80 patients' Having a CT - or CAT - scan puts patients at far greater risk of developing cancer than previously thought, scientists claim. The radiation generated by the scans - an increasingly popular diagnostic tool - may trigger the disease in as many as one in 80 patients.
Butt Covers for your Cat and Dog Is your pet feeling left in the dirt because of his/her unsightly rear? I've got them covered... Rear Gear is handmade in Portland, OR and offers a cheerful solution to be-rid your favorite pet's un-manicured back side.
Cat Saves Drunk Owner from Fire in Russia's Urals"A drunk man in the Perm Territory in Russia's Urals was saved by his cat when his apartment caught fire."
I love all animals, but there's something special to me about cats. I have owned at least a dozen during my life, but my latest cat, Spiffy, is definitely one with character.
10 Weirdest Animal Friendships8. Chimpanzee and Big Cats There is a sweet little chimp, named Anjana, who likes to play with big cats. She has helped the caregivers at The Greatly Endangered and Rare Species sanctuary to raise big cats. She acts as their mother.
Tale of half-frozen cat named Icee will warm the heartThis is the story of a skinny, scraggly, half-frozen cat picked up by animal control during a nasty snowstorm recently at what appeared to be the last seconds of his ninth life.
Well it's come and nearly gone. Black Friday. It's the day everyone awakens from their tryptophan-induced slumber to start the season of Good Will Toward Men by rushing into stores willy-nilly at the crack of dawn and damn the poor old lady who fell under their feet.
Today is Thanksgiving Day. The dog woke me up early, licking my face. I got up, took her out into the yard for a few minutes, went back inside. I looked at the clock, 10 past noon, time to prepare the Thanksgiving feast.
Cat Care | Cracked.comOwning a cat is one of the worst things you can do to yourself. Here are some practical tips on how to go about it.
Goalkeeper gets a yellow card for saving catAnimal-loving goalkeeper Ivan Banovic was almost sent off in a Premiership game when he saved a stray cat from getting hurt during the match.
Stowaway cat Pharaoh survives two-week voyage to Britain from EgyptPharoah the cat has survived after stowing away in a container on a merchant ship that arrived at the British port of Felixstowe after a 3,000 mile journey from Egypt.
Chihuahua KittensA cat-loving chihuahua cross has become a surrogate mother, suckling seven abandoned kittens.
IBM's Blue Gene Supercomputer Models a Cat's Entire BrainCats may retain an aura of mystery about their smug selves, but that could change with scientists using a supercomputer to simulate the the feline brain. That translates into 144 terabytes of working memory for the digital kitty mind.
Affectionate cat distracts policemanA police department in Texas in the US has released footage of an over-affectionate cat distracting a policeman trying to issue a ticket to a motorist. The video, filmed by a camera in officer Keith Urban's patrol car, shows the cat crawling up his leg and then onto his head.
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