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Dec
17
inevitable
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The Jingle Cats - White Christmas
Dec
16
Just wait ’til O’Reilly hears about this
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Readers share their Christmas creations | TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA
Jill and John Siu of Puyallup were afraid their two kittens would wreak havoc on the lower branches of a full Christmas tree, so they ordered this palm tree. The Sius “decided to have a Hawaiian Christmas, which fit our living room décor anyway,” Jill said. With no lower branches, there were no shiny ornaments within the kittens’ reach. Plus, it leaves more room for presents!
Dec
16
Fat cats lose dry argument | Herald Sun
Annalise Walliker
December 06, 2007 12:00am
GOT a tubby tabby? Dry food is to blame, according to New Zealand scientists.
Just like their owners, cats will overindulge if there’s plenty to eat and new research into cat food suggests popular dry food may be the reason felines get fat.
The study of 16 cats at Massey University found those fed only dry food got plumper, but lost weight when they switched to wet or canned food.
The findings are no surprise to Australian Small Animal Veterinary Association president Matthew Retchford, who said dry food has four times the calories of canned food.
“It’s like an explosion of calories because wet canned food contains up to 80 per cent water where dry food only contains 20 per cent water,” he said.
“One cooking cup equals about 100g of dry food totalling 300 to 400 calories, but the same weight of canned food only has 70 to 100 calories.”
A king-size Mars Bar has about 360 calories.
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Dec
16
“Hustled” kittens? How do you do that?
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The Daily Princetonian - We’ll get you, and your little dog too!
“Fire Inspector,” boomed the men as they knocked on the door of a young woman with something to hide. Emily, a senior, hustled her kittens into the bathroom and threw a blanket over the litter box and bags of Purina Friskies in the corner. The fire safety inspectors peeked in and left. Her cats were safe, at least for a few more weeks.
Aside from ubiquitous squirrels and Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel’s dog Skipper, the campus is home to a range of animals that secretly inhabit undergraduate dorms. Though housing most types of pets on campus is a violation of University policy — “only fish, in tanks that do not exceed 10 gallons, can be kept in the dormitories,” according to the 2007-08 undergraduate living guide — students who defy the rules described their animal pals as a time-consuming and odiferous, yet rewarding, part of their lives.
Dec
15
Swat your husband with a rolled-up newspaper and write us again in a week
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Ohio.com - Old kitty needs convenience
Q: Someone is peeing on the floor of the laundry room. We have ruled out the kids. But we have a 6-year-old dog, Lucy, an elderly cat, Taylor, and a kitten, Gypsy. The amount of urine seems to be too much to be the kitten and we don’t think the dog would do that. Taylor is constantly tormented by the kitten, who is always ready to pounce. All Taylor wants to do is sleep and shed. She’s been doing a lot of that on top of a countertop in the laundry room. Help!
— C.W., Medina
Dec
15
One of you needs glasses
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The Associated Press: Cougar Nearly Joins SD Woman in Hot Tub
DEADWOOD, S.D. (AP) — A relaxing soak in a hot tub came to an abrupt end when Marlene Todd came eye to eye with a mountain lion in her backyard.”I was kind of hidden, sitting with my back up against the side of the tub, and I heard a little rustling sound in the needles right beside me,” she said.
Todd said she thought it might have been her house cat until she saw “this big, tan, hairy body” just 4 inches away.
“I didn’t realize what it was until it took a leap and jumped up on the side of my hot tub,” Todd said.
The cougar was cornered somewhat because the deck stairs blocked its retreat. It would have to go up and over the hot tub.
“It just took a leap. It jumped on the side of the hot tub,” Todd said of the Thursday morning encounter. “We locked eyes, and it kicked off of the hot tub and ran away. When it jumped, it flipped my robe into the hot tub.”
She summoned Deadwood police, who surmised the big cat was stalking some deer in the neighborhood and may have been attracted to the warmth of the hot tub on the frosty morning.
“Now I know what a goldfish feels like when the cat is staring in its bowl,” Todd said.