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« Reply #180 on: Jun 29th, 2012, 12:14am » |
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8-year-old 'Mugly' wins World's Ugliest Dog title
A Chinese crested's short snout, beady eyes and white whiskers earned it the title of World's Ugliest Dog at the annual contest in Northern California on Friday.
Competing for fame, $1,000 and a year's worth of dog cookies, Mugly won the honor by beating out 28 other ugly dogs from around the world.
The 8-year-old rescue dog from the United Kingdom will also be invited for a photo shoot and will receive a VIP stay at the local Sheraton.
"I couldn't speak when they announced Mugly's name," said Bev Nicholson, the dog's owner. "I didn't know which way to look. I was shaking as much as the dog."
It's not the first time Mugly has been recognized for his unattractiveness. Nicholson said he was named Britain's ugliest dog in 2005.
The contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds gets worldwide attention, with reporters and camera crews from around the world traveling to Petaluma, about 40 miles north of San Francisco.
Organizers say the competing dogs are judged for what they term their "natural ugliness in both pedigree and mutt classes."
Mugly's victory was the latest for a Chinese crested. Last year's winner, Yoda, was a Chinese crested and Chihuahua mix.
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« Reply #181 on: Jun 30th, 2012, 9:05pm » |
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« Reply #182 on: Jul 2nd, 2012, 11:32pm » |
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Cat born with backward legs healing well after rare surgery
A kitten born with backward and crossed-over legs is healing well after surgery, and keeping up with his fellow pets at home.
Corky, named for the way his legs looked like a corkscrew, was picked up in March at a Minnesota pound by Gail Ventzke, the director of the Cat’s Cradle shelter in Fargo, N. D. She immediately took him to a veterinarian for X-rays and a consultation to find out if there was any way to make him more comfortable.
“He didn’t seem to realize that there was something wrong with him, but really, he looked quite strange and couldn’t walk properly,” Ventzke told TODAY.com. “The first vet we saw didn’t think it was possible to help him, so we went to another vet, and another and another, until finally we found a doctor who was willing to operate.”
Corky was born with two sets of front paws, with his back legs crossed over and pointing up. He was unable to walk properly and dragged his legs behind him as he moved.
Ten days later, on April 5, Corky had his groundbreaking and complicated surgery. His doctor reshaped his legs, removed joints, repositioned his legs, and inserted steel plates. Unfortunately, following three weeks of intense therapy to rehabilitate his new limbs, including acupuncture and hydrotherapy, one of Corky’s back legs developed circulatory problems and needed to be amputated.
But today, less than three months after his surgery, 10-month-old Corky has made a remarkable recovery. Ventzke adopted him and he runs around her house, chasing her three dogs and three cats. He even runs up and down the stairs and jumps on the couch.
“We think that he will live a pretty normal life,” Ventzke said. “What’s been just as amazing as his recovery is how his story has inspired others. One woman emailed us that his story gave her the will to start fighting her cancer again, while others have told us that they’ve started volunteering at their local shelter or rescue. We’ve received gifts and donations from Israel, France, the UK, and Italy. Seeing the outpouring of love and concern for this one small kitten has changed my outlook on life.”
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« Reply #183 on: Jul 3rd, 2012, 6:54pm » |
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I love a happy ending. 
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« Reply #184 on: Jul 8th, 2012, 12:26am » |
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Python found wrapped around baby's foot in Illinois
Police say a 2-foot-long ball python slithered its way into an Illinois apartment and wrapped itself around the foot of a sleeping 1-year-old boy and bit him on his left foot.
Chief Jason Taylor said the boy's parents were awakened by the child's noises to find the snake attacking their son about 11 p.m. Monday, the Mattoon Journal-Gazette & Times-Courier reported.
The father, Devin Winans, used a blanket to pull the python off the child, and his mother took the boy to a health center for treatment of a bite mark, bruise and scratches, the newspaper reported.
“It was definitely something we never thought of happening. It was definitely really scary,” the child's mother, Sara Lacey told the newspaper.
She said it was the first time she has seen the python and the apartment building is supposed to be pet-free.
Investigators believe the python escaped from a neighboring apartment within the building, Taylor said. Police have not been able to find the owner.
He said the snake’s owner could face charges for having an animal at large, according to the newspaper.
The snake is being held at the Coles County animal shelter.
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« Reply #185 on: Jul 8th, 2012, 11:49pm » |
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Manure mishap kills 48 cows on Swedish farm
Vets are investigating how 48 cows drowned in their own manure after a farmer left them to die in their barn when a slurry pump failed.
Horrified rescuers found bodies - many of them newborn calves - submerged in nearly three feet of liquid dung on the farm in Dalarna, Sweden, with more bodies piled up behind the barn.
Vet Simone Hausler - who helped in the rescue - said: "I’m really not wimpy, but I have never seen anything like it. We pulled out many dead newborn animals and we had cows screaming for their calves."
The 48-year-old farmer - now facing animal cruelty charges - told officials a pump which shifts the cows' slurry from the barn had broken allowing it to flood back in.
But instead of fixing it the farmer had allowed the problem to get worse.
The muck, which Häusler describes as “liquid manure, 60-70 centimetres high”, claimed the lives of almost half of the hundred strong herd.
The discovery was made after animal protection officers from the Dalarna County noticed that the cows had not been released into the pastures.
A team of vets, police and animal welfare officers arrived at the farm to discover 37 dead cows which had become stuck in manure and drowned.
Another 70 were still stuck, yet alive, and had to be released, however eight had to be put down in the process.
A further three cows were later found dead and hidden behind the barn, raising suspicions with authorities that the farmer had been aware of what was happening in the barn but tried to hide it.
The 48-year-old farmer, who helped save the animals from the muck, explained that a well-pump had broken, causing the manure to flood back inside the barn, wrote the paper.
The farmer allegedly was overworked and hadn’t found time to fix the pump that usually clears the barn of manure.
While he maintains that he was still constantly feeding the animals, he left them to wallow in their own excrement, probably for a considerable time, according to the rescue team.
“This has likely been going on for several weeks,” Häusler told SvD.
“It’s hard to put an exact time frame on it from the farmer. But even those cows that survived are in really bad shape; they have no hair left and have eye inflammation.”
The cows who survived the ordeal are now under police protection, and have been removed from the farm, while all the deceased cows will be sent to a medical examiner for autopsies.
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« Reply #186 on: Jul 10th, 2012, 4:36pm » |
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Throw that inconsiderate asshole into the fucking sewer! 
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« Reply #187 on: Jul 15th, 2012, 11:12pm » |
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Alaska town: Feline mayor is the cat's pajamas
TALKEETNA, Alaska- The mayor of a sleepy Alaska town is feline fine.
The part-Manx cat clawed his way onto the political scene of Talkeetna, Alaska, through a write-in campaign shortly after he was born 15 years ago.
KTUU-TV reported ( http://bit.ly/LYvzBV) Friday that residents didn't like the mayoral candidates years ago, so they encouraged enough people to elect Stubbs as a write-in candidate. The town has nearly 900 residents.
Although his position is honorary, Stubbs' popularity is real. His election earned him enough press to catapult the town at the base of Mount McKinley into a tourist destination.
Residents say they're happy that their stubby-tailed mayor is promoting tourism. The general store where Stubbs hangs out says it gets dozens of tourists a day asking for him.
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« Reply #188 on: Jul 16th, 2012, 5:58am » |
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Can I get a job as mayor if I sleep all day and poop in a box?
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« Reply #189 on: Jul 16th, 2012, 11:53pm » |
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An eagle, now named Phoenix, survived a wildfire in Utah.
- Truly living up to its new name "Phoenix," a baby golden eagle, rose from the ashes of one of Utah's wildfires.
A wildlife expert went to the eagles' nesting ground, expecting to find a fire victim, and instead he discovered a sole survivor.
"For him to survive something like that is just outstanding," said DaLyn Erickson, of the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah. "There's just no words for it."
Kent Keller photographed the eaglet on June 1 in a nest on a ledge on Eagle Mountain. Keller is a bird bander, which means he places metal bands on bird legs so they can be tracked.
"That gives us longevity records of what's going on with the nesting behaviors," Erickson said.
On June 21, the human-caused "dump" fire began burning. Thousands of acres were consumed over several days, including the nest site with the eaglet too young to fly. Kent returned several days later.
"He basically went back to retrieve a band. He went to close out the information, the data on the band," Erickson said.
Keller went to retrieve the band, believing that the bird was dead.
But this symbol of freedom was found alive, but badly burned, on the Fourth of July. The bird is now named Phoenix, after the mythical bird that rises from the ashes.
"You can see the shafts up here, still growing, but they're pretty much done for," Erickson said.
Handlers say Phoenix has a long way to go, but his future looks promising.
"We're hoping to release him. That's our goal is to get him back out into the wild," Erickson said.
In spite of his burned beak, Phoenix has started to eat on his own again.
It will be at least a year before he will be able to return to the wild because that's how long it will take him to grow new feathers.
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« Reply #190 on: Jul 18th, 2012, 7:17pm » |
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Good for the young eagle!!!
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« Reply #191 on: Jul 19th, 2012, 12:05am » |
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Bobcat breaks into Washington state prison
Security is tight at the Monroe Corrections Complex to keep 2,400 Washington state prisoners locked up, but it couldn't stop a bobcat from breaking in.
Officers on a perimeter fence check apparently startled the cat about 11:30 p.m. Monday, said Department of Corrections spokesman Chad Lewis.
"And it ran the wrong direction," he said, "through the razor-wire."
The small, agile cat was able to make it through the fence that would trap a person. It suffered a few cuts in the process.
The cat climbed up on the roof of the special offenders unit where it was spotted a few hours later, its eyes glowing in the dark.
The prison staff called veterinarian Roger Hancock who shot the bobcat with a tranquilizer gun and took it to the Pilchuck Veterinary Hospital in Snohomish.
It was stitched up Tuesday, and the prognosis is good, said spokeswoman Charlotte Graeber Compton.
The bobcat was transferred to the Sarvey Wildlife Center in Arlington to recover before being released back into the wild, she said.
Raccoons have been seen outside the prison fence, but no other wild animals are known to have made it inside, said Corrections Lt. Jose Briones.
Bear and cougar sighting around state prisons in rural areas are relatively common, Lewis said.
"A bobcat inside the fence, that's unusual," he said. There are a few trees, but no forest around the prison at Monroe, about 30 miles northeast of Seattle.
The fact that a bobcat can break in doesn't cause prison officials to worry that an inmate could break out of the state's second-largest prison, with five units ranging in security from minimum to maximum, Lewis said.
"If we had an inmate the same size of a bobcat with the same level of dexterity, then we're concerned," he said.
No one knows for sure what attracted the bobcat to the prison. It may have been hunting. And, it may have been looking for a safe place when it climbed on the roof of the unit that houses mentally ill offenders. Everyone agrees it made a mistake.
"For whatever reason, I'm sure it was wondering `Where the heck am I?'" said Corrections complex spokeswoman Susan Biller.
"Yeah, I'd call it weird."
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« Reply #192 on: Jul 21st, 2012, 11:14pm » |
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I'm glad they were able to stitch up the cat's cuts and release it back into the wild. That's super-cool! 
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« Reply #193 on: Jul 24th, 2012, 12:29am » |
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Kitten makes 6,500 mile trip on LA-bound ship
-CARSON, Calif. — A 3-month-old kitten appears alert after traveling from Shanghai to Los Angeles in a freight container on a boat.
The orange-and-white short-haired kitten traveled 6,500 miles without food or water and arrived Wednesday, officials say. Los Angeles County animal control officers are cautiously watching his health.
The kitten was retrieved from the container at a Compton-area business where it was delivered.
Animal control director Marcia Mayeda says the kitten ate and slept well at the Carson Animal Care Center. He woke up Thursday alert and responsive.
Mayeda says workers named him Ni Hao (NEE'-How), which means hello.
The kitten is quarantined, which is standard procedure after entering the U.S. from another country. When he recovers, gets his shots and is fixed, the shelter will look for foster and permanent homes.
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« Reply #194 on: Jul 24th, 2012, 7:50pm » |
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Aaawwwww, poor kitty! 
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