97-Year Old Woman Saved From Pitbull Mauling by Her Cat

Over at the best website known to man, Dlisted.com, is a story of Sophie Thomas, a 97-year old woman from Michigan and her cat Tiger. Sophie was weeding her flower beds, minding her own business and probably aching from arthritis, when along came a gang of vicious pitbulls. The pitbulls, who belonged to her neighbor directly behind her home, surrounded Sophie, scaring the little old lady half to death, one lunged at her and she hit it on the head. That one back off, but others came in closer. Sophie said she was pretty sure it was the end of...

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Hunting cats with pit bulls needs to stop now

August 28, 2010 9:24 AM To the editor: The community has a right to feel safe and secure in the City of Jacksonville and should not have to be terrorized by pit bull owners. Last night three African-American men wearing baggy jeans with no T-shirts decided to go on an adventure through my neighbor’s backyard. They deliberately took off the baseboard of the apartment and let their dogs loose under the basement where all the plumbing is. They were cat hunting, and they get a thrill out of hunting cats and watching their dogs kill them. Unfortunately, that cat was...

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Bedtime Story: 1-in-4 Grown Men Travel With a Stuffed Animal

When Scott Hardy hits the road, he always makes sure to leave room in his suitcase for his stuffed animal. That's right, the 34-year-old businessman always travels with Barkley, a stuffed beagle. No, it's not for his two daughters. No he doesn't sleep with a nightlight and no he isn't smuggling drugs. Seven years ago Hardy's then girlfriend, now wife, gave him the doggie as a reminder of her. "I travel enough that it's a nice reminder of home," said Hardy who runs an online legal notice company, Top Class Actions.

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Woman dumps cat in wheelie bin

THIS CCTV footage captures the moment a middle-aged woman picks up a cat - and drops it into a wheelie bin. The grey-haired woman, aged around 50, is filmed stroking tabby Lola on a wall outside a house on Brays Lane in Coventry at around 8pm on Saturday.

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Our cat died today.

Ratue was already very thin due to her terminal illness; a disease in the blood, most likely from a parasite. She no longer had the energy to eat food, much less properly digest it, so the body had to survive the only way it could: by devouring her own fat and muscle tissue. Organ failure began to set in around 5:50 in the afternoon on Sunday, August the 23rd, 2010. When I heard my stepmother wailing over Ratue's deteriorating condition, I bore witness to what would be the cat's final hour. She was disoriented and confused. Whenever she tried to...

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Cat love trumps law

ALBANY -- City officials first got wind of the problem on Orange Street when a neighbor called the Department of Water and Water Supply complaining of a foul odor. But when crews arrived on scene to find the source, they quickly concluded the stench was emanating not from the sewers but from a nearby house. The city quickly condemned 198 Orange St., a tumble-down wood-frame apartment building in Arbor Hill, on July 21 when the Department of Building and Codes determined the building was dangerously unstable, said Deputy Fire Chief Joe Toomey. And with that, the Great Orange Street Cat...

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Civil Servants Find Themselves Cast in Unlikely Role -- Fat Cats

Move over Wall Street traders -- seems there's a new vampire squid in town. Civil servants? Passage Tuesday of a controversial bill sending billions of dollars to states to shore up payrolls for public school teachers further stoked the debate over whether government employees, their unions and their benefits packages are bankrupting the country. "[The bill] will make the teachers unions happy, but it won't make teaching in schools better," said Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., at a press conference Tuesday during which he and other Republican leaders criticized legislation earmarking $26 billion in aid for school districts and other state...

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Traffic stop saves cat from owner’s plate

Buffalo police rescued a cat from a Cheektowaga man who apparently was planning to make a meal out of his pet because he thought it was ill-tempered, authorities said Monday. When Ferry-Fillmore District officers pulled over a car driven by Gary L. Korkuc on Sunday night during a traffic stop, they said they heard a cat crying from inside the trunk and investigated. What they found has left animal lovers at the SPCA Serving Erie County in shock. The cat, according to police, was in a cage “marinating” in a mixture of crushed red peppers, chili pepper, salt and oil....

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Cat moves off menu, into home

Navarro the cat is safe and sound in his new home.Rescued Sunday from a man who was preparing the cat as a meal, the 4-year-old feline was adopted Tuesday through the SPCA Serving Erie County by Vickie Dankowski of Cheektowaga."I woke up [Tuesday] and read the article in The Buffalo News and couldn't believe what I was reading," Dankowski said. "I said, 'I think I might want to adopt him.'"When Buffalo police pulled over a car driven by Gary L. Korkuck on Sunday night, they heard a cat crying from inside the trunk. Officers investigated and found Navarro in...

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Abducted Cat's Trek From S.F. to N.Y. a Mystery

If Jack Daniels could talk, he could probably explain everything. But alas, Jack can only meow. So it remains a mystery as to how the nearly blind black cat, abducted from the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals a year ago, ended up on the streets of Harlem last week. Tuesday morning, Jack Daniels' journeys brought him back to San Francisco, courtesy of JetBlue and a cat-loving book designer from Brooklyn named LeeAnn Falciani. "He's this superstar cat," said Falciani, who took a week off work to escort Jack Daniels from New York's animal shelter to...

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