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Jan
11
do it today
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Jan
4
Oh, aren’t we special.
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Wait until the kitties at home see you!
Wait until they catch you alone in the laundry room….
Jan
3
The goggles! They do nothing!
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Pet dumping shame | thedaily.com.au
This week, 4 Paws is looking for a home for Bubbles, a 10-week-old Turkish Van cross male kitten.
“He was one of five kittens and he is left lonely, looking for a home,” Julie said.
“He is being fostered by Amanda and her family in Minyama, who say he is just adorable, loves the dogs and plays with the children – a real darling social kitten.”
If you are interested in meeting and possibly adopting Bubbles, phone Tina on 0412 596 530.
I don’t wish to cast aspersions on Bubbles, who is probably a lovely cat and deserves a good home, but he bears an eerie and possibly ominous resemblance to our cat Boots, and Bootsie is seriously nuts. He loves to chew on toes and electrical cords, and if you pick him up he goes into full rigor mortis mode.
Check out the eyes. Just sayin’.
Jan
3
no problem — we just give them each a beer and line ‘em up
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Scientific American: Cat Fleas Abhor A Vacuum
If you don’t subscribe to the Dutch journal Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, you might have missed the news about fleas: the best way to get rid of a house full of cat fleas is to reach for the vacuum cleaner. The old upright is not only lethal to adult bugs, but it completely wipes out their young. Scientists from Ohio State University had set out to determine what additional measures might be needed to kill a bunch of Hoovered-up fleas: burning, freezing, poisoning, maybe even a little good old fashioned stomping. But it turns out that getting sucked into a vacuum bag does the whole job.
The researchers were so surprised by the results, they repeated the study several times. In each experiment, they sprinkled a kitchen carpet with 100 cat fleas, either adults or juveniles. And they found that the vacuum snuffed out pretty much all of them. What makes vacuuming so deadly is hard to say. The researchers admit that they did not conduct a postmortem on any of the deceased. But they think it was the physical trauma of being sucked through the brushes that gave fleas a one-way ticket to the chitin-yard. Now, if only scientists could come up with a safe way to vacuum the cat.
–Karen Hopkin
Jan
2
The cat, the brick and a political protest - New Zealand news on Stuff.co.nz
A brick-wielding protester, a prowling cat and a local woman crossed paths at Prime Minister Helen Clark’s Mt Albert electorate office in the first hour of 2008 - with hair-raising results.
The woman was looking for a neighbour’s lost cat about 12.30am when she saw a scooter pull up and its rider throw a brick at the office window. The window was cracked but not broken.
She approached the scooter to try to get its registration number and was startled by the cat.
When the woman screamed, both the cat and the brick-thrower took fright and left quickly.
A group called People Power has owned up and threatened further protests. It said the brick was thrown to protest against the Electoral Finance Act, which was enacted yesterday. The group wants it repealed.