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True News for the Feline Community
It's what cats crave!
Dec
31
… actually just a subset thereof. (Left to right: Inky, Marley, Yo-Yo and Little Girl Cat)
Dec
31
year-end wrapup
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Cartier-Bresson, eat your heart out. A masterpiece.
Dec
30
except that she seems to have done just that
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THIS is Robo Cat—enforcer of the claw and steel standing after vets rebuilt her legs from scratch.
Blunder cat Baby had surgery to save one of her nine lives after plummeting from a third floor window and shattering her back legs.
But when the feline fractures were X-rayed, vets found she had suffered an earlier accident which left her with two metal rods in her FRONT legs.
Now the alloycat, six, is believed to be the only moggy in the country to have undergone such extensive surgery.
And just like the Bionic Man from Seventies TV hit The Six Million Dollar Man, Baby’s reconstruction wasn’t cheap. The £10,000 price tag means she’s also been dubbed the Bionic Cat by her owners.
Jess Gower, chief vet at the Blue Cross centre in Victoria, London—the charity which paid for the op —said: “Baby’s back leg bones had broken into several pieces.
“She is the only cat I have seen that has been fitted with a metal implant in each of her FOUR legs.”
“Contrary to popular belief, cats don’t always land on their feet.”
Dec
29
LAPD enlists feral cats for rat patrol - Los Angeles Times
They are the homeless of the domestic animal world — colonies of feral cats that roam residential neighborhoods and lurk around office buildings and commercial garages, scavenging for food.
Unlike other strays that might rub up against a leg hoping for a crumb or a head rub, these felines are so unaccustomed to human contact that they dart away when people approach. Feral cats cannot be turned into house pets. When they end up in municipal shelters, they have little hope of coming out alive.
But one animal welfare group has figured out a way to save their lives and put them to work in Los Angeles. The Working Cats program of Voice for the Animals, a Los Angeles-based animal advocacy and rescue group, has placed feral cats in a handful of police stations with rodent problems, just as the group placed cats in the rat-plagued downtown flower district several years ago — to great effect.Six feral cats were recently installed as ratters in the parking lot of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Southeast Division, and another group will be housed at the Central Division early in the new year.
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Dec
28
Can everyone read me now?
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Sheesh. It’s not like it was acid green on maroon like in the old Wired.
Dec
27
Cat escapes holiday fire by squeezing behind wall
The Associated Press
MANITOWOC, Wisconsin — Extraordinary situations call for extraordinary measures.
A full-grown cat crawled into a 1.5 inch opening in the wall to escape a Christmas Eve fire in Manitowoc and was found in good health Christmas Day.
“It’s amazing that an animal can shrink down and do what it has to do to get into a small opening,” Battalion Chief Ken Cayemberg said.
The cat squeezed into the opening for a door that slid into the wall between the living room and foyer, he said. The door had been removed earlier.
The blaze started around 7:40 p.m. near a wood-burning fireplace Christmas Eve. Firefighters and the homeowner, Steven Lorenz, unsuccessfully looked for the cat that evening.
They went back the next day and found him around 2:30 p.m. Lorenz saw the cat’s eye sparkle, Cayemberg said. The cat wasn’t making any noises.
“They were surprised,” Cayemberg said.
A firefighter used a pole with a loop at the end to pull the cat out of the crevice, Cayemberg said. The cat was in an undamaged wall that was about 15 feet from most of the damage, Cayemberg said.