Kitten apparently rides 120 miles in wheel well

An Oregon man says a 3-month-old kitten apparently hitched a cold, 120-mile ride in the wheel well of his SUV.

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Unlikely friends: Why we love odd animal pairs

A video of best buddies Suriya (orangutan) and Roscoe (pooch) is a YouTube sensation. An old tortoise and a young hippo have their own Web site and line of books detailing their friendship. You see stories of unlikely animal friends on the news: horses nuzzling cats, dogs caring for kittens and a pig nursing tiger cubs — and in May, Oprah even featured a dog and elephant who are best friends on her show.

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NY man charged with torturing kitten, making video

Police are accusing a 22-year-old upstate New York man of hanging his girlfriend's four-month-old kitten with a belt and making a video of the animal struggling.

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Donated couch comes with stowaway kitten

Some old couches have a squeak. One that was delivered to an Ohio Goodwill store came with a meow. Goodwill employees heard mewing inside the store in northern Ohio and traced the sound to a sofa that was donated on Thursday. Store clerk Kaila Voight said they removed the cushions and out popped the head of a gray-and-black striped kitten, through a slit in the fabric covering the springs.

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Animal cruelty complaint filed against Ariz. man

Arizona prosecutors have filed felony animal cruelty charges against a man who allegedly tried to feed a kitten to a python and later killed the feline by drop-kicking it.

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NYC teen admits to leaving kitten in oven to die

A New York City teenager has admitted that she failed to let a kitten out of an oven after a friend put the animal inside and left it to roast to death.

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Cat dropped in mailbox adopted — by postal worker

A New Hampshire postal worker is getting his own special delivery.

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Kitten dropped, discovered in Boston city mailbox

Officials said a two-pound, eight-week-old kitten was dropped in a public mailbox in Boston and later found unharmed among envelopes and packages. According to the MSPCA Animal Care and Adoption Center, the kitten they're calling "Postina" likely was stuffed Friday through a small opening of the mailbox and dropped several feet below.

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Plumbing service rescues kitty from drainage pipe

It was Roto-Rooter to the rescue for an unlucky black kitten that got stuck in an outdoor drainage pipe near Cleveland.

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Kitten Survives Trip in Shipping Crate

A scrawny, black and white female kitten has apparently survived a trip across the Pacific Ocean and North America inside a shipping crate. Cleveland Animal Protective League Executive Director Sharon Harvey says a Cleveland company that received the crate of spooled steel coil Friday found the kitten inside one the spools.

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Kitten Found After 25 Days in NYC Subway

A skittish kitten that scampered out of its carrier on a subway platform has been found after 25 days in the underground tunnels.

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Man Sentenced in UK for Killing Kitten

A British man who killed his wife's kitten by putting it in a tumble dryer after their marriage collapsed was sentenced Monday to six months in prison.

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Firefighter Revives Cat After House Fire

A southern Illinois firefighter is proof that saving lives doesn't just involve people. Firefighter Dave Chambers helped rescue several animals during a house fire last week, including a kitten that wasn't breathing when it was carried out of the home.

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Golden Retriever Nurses Stray Kitten

A stray kitten has found a new mother in a golden retriever, who began producing milk for the little feline after hearing its cries. Honey hadn't given birth in 18 months, but after her owner, Jimmy Martin, brought home the kitten, she suddenly found herself playing mom.

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Md. Man Admits Burning Kittens to Death

A man pleaded guilty in the deaths of his ex-girlfriend's four small kittens, which were tossed into a fire pit after the couple argued.

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Principal May Be Charged in Cat Killings

A school principal has resigned and could face felony firearm charges after he shot and killed two orphaned kittens on school property last month.

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Undercover Kitten Killed by Car

Fred, the Undercover Kitten who gained fame earlier this year by posing as a would-be patient to help police nab a phony veterinarian, has died, authorities said Friday.

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Rabid Kitten Halts Some PetSmart Adoptions

A kitten adopted at a PetSmart Inc. store was ill with rabies, prompting the pet-supplies chain to suspend animal adoptions in the mid-Atlantic.

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TUALATIN, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon man says a 3-month-old kitten apparently hitched a cold, 120-mile ride in the wheel well of his SUV.

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Poll. Puppies or Kittens. Which is more adorable?

Here's a real tough one and I don't have a long article to attach to the poll. It's a fairly simple, but maybe impossible question to answer. Which is more adorable? A puppy or a kitten?

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A cat-loving chihuahua cross has become a surrogate mother, suckling seven abandoned kittens.

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A 28-year-old Mesa man was arrested on suspicion of animal cruelty after video apparently showed him trying to feed a 6-week-old kitten to a python.

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A KITTEN survived being hit by a car - then got trapped under the car for 20 MILES. Four-month-old tabby Lola got stuck in the engine bay after a dog chased her into the road.

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Zoey, a beautiful little black kitten, is fighting the odds. She was found with two severely broken legs and was supposed to be euthanized twice. Seems that Zoey has other plans... :)

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A family has been warned their mail could be halted after postmen refused to deliver to their house - because of a vicious kitten.

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For Tofu the kitten, nothing beats hitting the sack alongside Big-Wig the chicken. Tofu and Big-Wig, a Chinese Silkie, formed an animal odd couple after the sick kitten was rescued from a crawl space...

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Now she's down to eight lives. An eight-week-old black and white kitten earned the name Lucky today after she was tossed out of a pickup truck on Staten Island, got trapped in the wheel well of the car directly behind -- and lived to meow another day.

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Move over Jeffrey Dahmer, there's a new kid in town. Try to visualise him doing this to your small son or daughter. Leave this kid alone and he will make Jeffrey look like an alter boy.

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Fantastic photo sequence of a budgerigar getting the last laugh over a sleepy kitten.

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Time for a kitty break

All this talk about gloom and doom; Karl Rove is an idiot, the GOP are a bunch of stinking drama queens, and the world is faced with a possible Swine flu epidemic. Yup, time for a kitty break.

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BRIDGEPORT --- A city man, who kicked and beat a 4-month-old kitten with a broomstick after he caught it licking milk from a cereal bowl, was granted special probation Wednesday.

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--Video-- An Australian vet got the shock of his life when a cat gave birth to this two-headed kitten. The tiny kitten, which was born at the Swan Veterinary Clinic in Perth, Western Australia, eats out of just one mouth, but both mouths meow simultaneously.

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VIDEO: Kitten loses leg after a witness says a group of teenagers used the animal as football.

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Known as a 'water monster,' this Axolotl salamander is just a few years away from extinction, according to recent warnings by scientists.

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NEW YORK -- A cat who became famous for rescuing her kittens from a Brooklyn fire has died. Scarlett, who was thought to be around 13 years old, succumbed to kidney failure on Oct. 11.

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A 13-year-old girl died while trying to save a kitten from an oncoming car in North Florida.

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My Furry Family - Chloe

The oldest is Chloe. I found her half starved with ice pellets sticking to her fur outside of a nursing home I had been sent to for a hospice case.

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I think this kitten would easily win the super kitties dunk contest. Seriously, this cat can jump... See more irresistible headlines

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You've heard of man bites dog. What about, dog saves cats? A two-year-old dog that had been turned over to the Nevada Humane Society's shelter in Reno is being credited with rescuing six abandoned kittens.

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A seven-week-old kitten went on a 77km thrill ride yesterday, clinging to a garbage truck on a trip between Sydney and Unanderra. Unbeknown to truck driver Scott Wilson, 37, the kitten snuck into the bowels of his garbage truck before he took off down the highway from Chipping N …

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MSPCA investigators are searching for whoever "cooked" a 6-week-old kitten in a microwave, nearly killing him.

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Rantings of The Angry Blonde: Then & Now, my birthday, June 27th

A few days from today is my 47th birthday, but before I comment more about this birthday, I want to go back to another time in my life... June 27, 2004...

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This is Tinka, our full-blooded Mink Spotted Snow Bengal kitten that has just come to live with us. I presented her to my Wife as a present. This is her baby picture, she was just ten weeks old here. Bengals are very special cats that make very good pets.

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