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This past Saturday evening a woman dumped a rescue cat into a garbage bin on the side of a residential street in Coventry, U.K. Fifteen hours later owner
Darryl Mann: "I came down to feed Lola on Sunday morning but couldn’t find her anywhere. It was really hot day outside and I searched nearby alleyways but suddenly heard a tiny meowing coming from the bin. I looked inside and I found her in the bin, she was terrified and covered in her own mess....At first I thought she’d somehow climbed inside the bin herself but
when I checked the CCTV I was gobsmacked to see some a woman had done it deliberately." Mann posted the video to
YouTube and
Facebook in an effort to find the perpetrator. As a result, the woman was identified by this morning.
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posted by ericb
on Aug 24, 2010 -
249 comments
Under the
Big Top: Shhhhhh! The Show's about to
start*... quick, take your
seat, sit down, and
don't make a move. It's been going on for
centuries, and now--lucky
you will be able to be a part of
it, if you haven't
already as a child
(1, 2, 3, 4, 5). Honestly, who hasn't thought of
running away from home and
joining the Circus (but I'd suggest you wait a couple of years, until you're a little
older, and a little
wiser, to make these
decisions). It is tempting though, when they
roll into town with their fancy wagons, and their loud music. Although, the circus may not be as
prevalent as it once was, there are
new acts being created to
entice crowds around the world.
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posted by hadjiboy
on Mar 31, 2008 -
14 comments
Before he went to prison for dogfighting, Michael Vick trained his pit bulls at a 4,600-sq-ft house on 15 acres in Surry, Virginia. Earlier this year, local tax rolls valued the property at $747,000, but Vick hurriedly
sold the house to real estate developer Ray Todd on the cheap, to aid his mounting financial troubles. Todd had hoped to resell the house for $1M at a December auction, and dozens of rubberneckers toured the property -- to gawk at the syringes left on the ground, the twenty kennels
"like prison cells", and the outbuildings where the dogs were fought. Naturally,
no one was buying. Still, Todd wants to recoup his investment, so he’s turning to a conventional sale this month… and failing
that, is considering building (unbelievably)
a bed-and-breakfast where pets are welcome.
Enter
The Vick House project: a Dallas charity called Jalie’s Butterflies is hoping to raise enough money online to buy the house and convert it to a non-profit animal shelter, under guidance of the SPCA.
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posted by pineapple
on Jan 20, 2008 -
27 comments
Nian Nian You Yu ("
nyen nyen yo yew")
- translates to "Have abundance every year" or phonetically as "Year Year Got Fish." Tomorrow evening, over a billion people will be celebrating Lunar New Year's Eve with a
Reunion
Dinner. This involves family members coming together and for many, the
ideal menu
includes eating braised shark's fin soup. This is a perfect time to regale your friends and family with
shark
factoids and
horror stories. True you mother won't appreciate when you point out to Auntie Mei how how around
100 million sharks are caught worldwide every year,
mostly just for their fins, or that actually the dish is tasteless and people
are just ordering it to
show
off their wealth. But surely it's better than one day having to say "Year Year Got No Fish."
posted by missbossy
on Feb 7, 2005 -
14 comments
Greece gets ready for the return of the Olympics by ridding the streets of its stray dogs. don't watch this if you're an animal lover. Or better yet, DO if you can handle it, because it's one of the saddest things i've seen in a long time. Though the government of Athens is denying it is responsible for this, someone is poisoning the city's thousands of stray dogs by putting it in food (naturally, a stray, hungry dog will eat it). The ensuing death does not come quickly. I've always wanted to visit Greece, especially being from a Mediterranean family (experience the roots, and all that) but suffice it to say it's moved to the bottom of the list of places to visit at this point. I've seen better treatment of animals in countries far less developed than Greece.
posted by cadence
on Aug 2, 2004 -
57 comments
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In a park in Bali, they found a monkey, a pig-tailed macaque, kept in a cage so small it could not lie down properly, and with one leg chained to the bars.
posted by leafy
on Mar 26, 2002 -
6 comments
