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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 The group wants it repealed.
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
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.