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Day Of The Animals: Tales Of Man Vs Beast (And Man Suffers)

HAVING A BALL

ENGLAND: A playful Border Terrier has bounced back from a serious health scare after a ball went unnoticed in its stomach for two years.

Trixie the dog had come down with a mysterious illness and after becoming concerned her owner took her into hospital for a scan. This showed an object in her stomach which after surgery was found to be a bouncy ball she had swallowed two years before.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/world/quir ... 74272.html
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Feral cat terrorises pensioners for two days in their own home

The animal was eventually removed by a neighbour - but only after he put on motorcycle leathers to protect himself

Two pensioners were terrorised by a cat for two days after it sneaked into their home, according to a report.

The cat attacked Bruce Gough, 74, a retired aerospace engineer, scratching and biting him, and also urinated and defecated in the house in Canterbury.

He said he and his wife, retired nurse Eileen Gough, 77, were watching television when the cat “suddenly” appeared.

“When I got up, it dashed off into a spare bedroom and I found it hiding under the bed. I tried to coax it out but it wouldn't budge, so I got a broom to ease it out. But when I went to pick it up, it just flew at me and sank its teeth and claws into my forearm,” he told The Daily Telegraph. “It was going berserk and flew around the room, knocking things over, including a Victorian ewer on the mantelpiece, which smashed.”

Mrs Gough said her husband’s arm was “bleeding quite badly” after the attack – he later had a tetanus jab – and one room in the house “now stinks”.

“The cat had clawed its way up curtains and sat on the edge of the sash window, and that's where it was the following morning,” she said.

They contacted the RSPCA, but Mrs Gough said the charity refused to come to take the cat away.

An RSPCA spokesman said: “The RSPCA is an animal welfare charity and our donors expect us to use our limited resources on animals who are suffering or in distress or danger.

“So long as a feral cat is healthy, he or she will live happily outside and so when we are busy we have to prioritise other animals who are in greater need of our help.

“We would advise anyone who finds a feral cat has entered their home to keep a distance and ensure they have a clear and easy exit route - such as an open window or door - so they can make their own way out.”

The cat was eventually removed by a neighbour - but only after he put on motorcycle leathers to protect himself.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho ... 83136.html
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In my experience that's fairly typical of the RSPCA. They should have arranged to have a television crew visiting when they phoned for help - the RSPCA would have been round like a shot then :x
 
ramonmercado said:
HAVING A BALL

ENGLAND: A playful Border Terrier has bounced back from a serious health scare after a ball went unnoticed in its stomach for two years.

Trixie the dog had come down with a mysterious illness and after becoming concerned her owner took her into hospital for a scan. This showed an object in her stomach which after surgery was found to be a bouncy ball she had swallowed two years before.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/world/quir ... 74272.html
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That link is for something else! :shock:
 
Mythopoeika said:
ramonmercado said:
HAVING A BALL

ENGLAND: A playful Border Terrier has bounced back from a serious health scare after a ball went unnoticed in its stomach for two years.

Trixie the dog had come down with a mysterious illness and after becoming concerned her owner took her into hospital for a scan. This showed an object in her stomach which after surgery was found to be a bouncy ball she had swallowed two years before.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/world/quir ... 74272.html
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That link is for something else! :shock:
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No, its in the Quirky News column. The first story is always in the link.
 
Crocodile spotted taking a dip into a lake in Crete

“At first we thought it was a practical joke...” - Authorities begin searching for mysterious reptile
Friday, July 04, 2014
Crocodile spotted taking a dip into a lake in Crete

According to the ekriti.gr news portal, two firemen reported a crocodile diving into a lake during their patrol near a river dam in Crete. The local Director of Transportation and Plumbing Works Vangelis Mamagakis stated that the two firemen saw the two-meter crocodile moving along the shore before plunging into the lake.

“At first we thought it was a practical joke, but as soon as we realized that they were reliable witnesses, we began investigating” Mamagakis continued. An investigation is about to begin, in order to confirm the existence of the reptile and whether it is the only one.

With crocodiles being a rather rare sight in Greece, Mr. Mamagakis believes that the crocodile may have been kept as a pet at a home or by a visiting zoo and was subsequently abandoned.

http://www.tovima.gr/en/article/?aid=612473
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Lumberjack rescues bear trapped in milk pail
Two loggers from Wisconsin stumble across a bear with its head lodged in a can and decide to use their claw crane to help the bewildered animal out
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10:37PM BST 07 Jul 2014

Perhaps it was the smell of milk, or plain curiosity, but a bear got a bit of shock when it managed to trap its head inside a milk pail.

The animal was discovered by two lumberjacks on farmland in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, USA.
Realising that the bear was in distress, they decided to use their forestry forwarder machine to help free it.

The scene, captured on one of the logger's phones, was reminiscent of the near-impossible claw crane arcade game.
Fortunately for the bear, its rescuer was a dab hand at maneuvering the machinery and in a matter of moments was freed unharmed.

:D

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... -pail.html
 
Woman Calls 911 After Angry Cat Traps Her In Bedroom (AUDIO)

This is not the cat in the story, but boy does he look angry.
She wasn't kitten around!

A woman in DeLand, Florida, called police Saturday evening after her cat "freaked out," the Orlando Sentinel reported.

"I got her out of the bedroom, and now she's in my living room and I can't get out. She's got us trapped in our bedroom," Teresa Gregory can be heard saying in a 911 call obtained by My Fox Orlando.

Gregory also told the dispatcher that she and her husband had left the cat, a 4-year-old Russian Blue named Kush, in the bathroom all day. The woman said Kush was fine when she first let her out, but the cat went ballistic after seeing Gregory's husband, James Gregory.

"My husband's arms were ripped up! I mean ripped up! Pouring blood," she said on the call.

The cat, who the couple says has never had any vaccinations, is being quarantined for 10 days, according to Bay News 9.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/0 ... 67208.html
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Sniffer dog finds child abuse images

A suspect has been arrested after a dog trained to detect electronic circuitry found a memory stick containing images of child sexual abuse hidden in a tin box inside a metal cabinet. :shock:

Rhode Island police received Thoreau from Connecticut police after the dog completed 22 weeks of training, which involved detecting gadgets for food.
The only other US gadget-sniffing dog remains stationed in Connecticut.
But some UK experts have questioned the efficacy of the training methods.

Thoreau's handler, Det Adam Houston, told the Providence Journal: "If it has a memory card, he'll sniff it out."
The food-based reward system was how the dog ate "every day", he added.

But Maggie Gwynne, of Sniffer Dogs UK & International, told the BBC this was "completely contrary" to the UK police and prison service's training methods.
"Offering a sniffer dog food in exchange for a 'find' opens the way for an abuse of the system - if its hungry enough it will take food from anybody, not just its handler and therefore defeats the object of the search," she said.
"It would be interesting to research their success rate, however.

"I don't believe this is a field that any UK police dog would be trained in, and I personally have never heard of such a thing," .
"[Sniffer dogs] are concerned with the detection of drugs, cash, firearms, explosives, and are used for conflict management and tracking criminals who have legged it, or missing and vulnerable people."

It is unclear whether the dog can distinguish between a memory stick and other electrical equipment likely to be around a suspect's house, such as TV remotes, radios and computers.

Ms Gwynne said she had no doubt dogs could be trained to locate hard drives and/or memory sticks, in the same way firearms dogs were trained to find metallic objects but the idea "that it could make a distinction as to what it has found, seems unrealistic".

In 2008, dogs Lucky and Flo, were trained to sniff out pirated DVDs, with Wired noting: "The dogs cannot decipher the difference between pirated and authentic DVDs."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28194514
 
GREECE: Residents in Crete are blaming a six-foot crocodile for missing lambs and ducks — and souvenir shops have started selling inflatable versions of it.

Authorities on the Greek resort island say the animal was spotted last week in a man-made lake near the seaside town of Rethymno.

Regional official Vangelis Mamangakis said parts of the lake have been fenced off and efforts will be made to remove it. He said it was probably a pet that grew too big for its owner, who “thought it would be a good idea to dump it in the lake”.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/world/quir ... 74785.html
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Another pit bull in the news.

This time, Ace, home with his deaf boy, woke the child as smoke filled the home, and insisted he get out of bed.

This was in Indianapolis, where, if I recall rightly, there was an attempt to destroy all pit bulls(and a laundry list of other breeds as well) not so long ago.

Just like the Texas 'humane' chief who announced that euthanasia, not adoption was his policy for stray dogs, people who hate and fear dogs want to kill them.

Gee, we sure didn't need the steadfast and intelligent Ace. No, just let the kid cook, because it's policy.

Our fur babies treat us better than we treat them, don't you think?-some people ought to bear that in mind.
 
krakenten said:
Another pit bull in the news.

This time, Ace, home with his deaf boy, woke the child as smoke filled the home, and insisted he get out of bed.

This was in Indianapolis, where, if I recall rightly, there was an attempt to destroy all pit bulls(and a laundry list of other breeds as well) not so long ago.

Just like the Texas 'humane' chief who announced that euthanasia, not adoption was his policy for stray dogs, people who hate and fear dogs want to kill them.

Gee, we sure didn't need the steadfast and intelligent Ace. No, just let the kid cook, because it's policy.

Our fur babies treat us better than we treat them, don't you think?-some people ought to bear that in mind.
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Great dog!
 
Foxes are changing.

Once it was declared that they could not be tamed, however, of late, some have actually become pets. This seems to be when an orphaned kit is adopted by humans, but who knows?

The Soviets bred docile foxes for the fur industry-however, the beasts developed lop ears and particolored coats in a few generations. While this ruined them for fur animals, they became popular pets.

A little jackleg science here, since coyotes are often quite docile with humans, and foxes seem quick to be domesticated, perhaps we may surmise that a pet disposition is part of the makeup of canids, thus, we have our staunch and loving friends today.

Just sayin'?
 
USA: Officials in Alaska’s largest city are considering outlawing Gothic-style metal fences after five moose were gored to death in recent years.

The Anchorage Assembly will hold a public hearing on August 5 to consider regulating metal palisade fences with spiked pointed tips.

The fences stand 4ft-6ft high and are usually found around private residences for security and aesthetic reasons.

State wildlife biologists say moose get caught up, or gored by the tips when they try to jump over them.

The proposal would outlaw such fences shorter than 9ft, unless the tips are removed orthe spikes capped.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/world/quir ... 76524.html
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Imagine what might happen if a cow tried to jump one of those fences?

Udder destruction!
 
Barracuda exits water 'like a torpedo,' bites 13-year-old boy in Florida
Published July 23, 2014
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – A teenage boy is recovering after a 5-foot barracuda apparently jumped into his father's boat and slashed his arm and chest.

The incident happened Sunday while 13-year-old Parker King was fishing with his dad, Irwin King.

The teen told The Daytona Beach News-Journal the barracuda came out of the water "like a torpedo" and left a long, deep gash under his arm and across his chest. He was taken to Halifax Health Medical Center, where he underwent two surgeries to repair the damage. He's now sporting 27 staples and 17 stitches.

Florida Fish and Wildlife biologist Ed Matheson says barracudas have "nasty teeth" that can cause serious damage.

Parker says he won't stop fishing, but he'll never try to catch a barracuda again.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/07/23/ba ... =obnetwork
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Man reports on what certain Fish do.

Next week. Your dawg shat on someone's lawn and the cat did some bad stuff too.

Thanks to NOUVEAUIGNORANCE, everything is a mystery now.
 
jimv1 said:
Man reports on what certain Fish do.

Next week. Your dawg shat on someone's lawn and the cat did some bad stuff too.

Thanks to NOUVEAUIGNORANCE, everything is a mystery now.
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I don't regard my self as being particularly ignorantt but I was unaware that barracuda usually leap out of the sea and attack people. Odd it hasn't been used in horror films.
 
Man gets trio of huskies to help him move house

Saturday, July 26, 2014

ENGLAND: Dog owner Keath Armstrong put his trio of huskies to work — using them to help him move house.

The dogs pulled a sled, filled with Amstrong’s belongings, some 349km from his old flat in Manchester to his new home in Dorset. He walked alongside Sakari, Nukka, and Nala helping to raise money for The Cystic Fibrosis Trust.

He said: “Walking won’t be a problem for them — they need plenty of exercise and we’ve been in training by doing the Wainwright walks in the Cumbrian fells.”

http://www.irishexaminer.com/world/quir ... 76751.html
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That sounds like a business opportunity in the making for people with small loads. Instead of man with van...

And now:


Alarm bells ring as missing watch is found inside grandfather's prized dog

A grandfather found his missing watch after he heard the alarm going off – inside his dog.

Minibus driver Terry Morgan, 66, had no idea his pet Newfoundland Charlie had gobbled the £500 Casio.

But after searching high and low for the timepiece he suddenly heard a ringing sound coming from the animal’s stomach. Terry, of Cockwood, Devon, took Charlie to St Davids Veterinary group in Exeter and x-rays confirmed it was lodged in his stomach.

The pooch was about to undergo an emergency operation when nature intervened and he suddenly vomited it out.

Terry, 66, a former pub landlord, said: “The watch was set to go off at 10:55pm to remind me to call last orders.

“I rushed him to the vet for an emergency operation and was a bit ticked off because that would have cost me about £1,000.

“But when Charlie saw the anaesthetic needle he howled with fright and coughed the watch up.”
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Read more at http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Ala ... oPxw2xJ.99

Do check out the photo. Their expressions are priceless.
 
This one is really all in the headline:

Farmer to tour EU in chicken suit

A farmer is set to tour Europe in a chicken costume to call for clearer labelling on poultry meat.

Tamsin French, 23, will visit 21 EU countries dressed as a chicken named Rosa.

Tamsin, whose family run a poultry farm in Devon, wants clear method of production labelling to be displayed on all chicken meat produced in Europe.

Her 39Days4Rosa tour is taking place as the European Commission reviews poultry meat labelling this summer.
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Read more at http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Far ... swUvi41.99
 
Superb day for animal stories!

The dead dog that changed colour twice
By Justin Parkinson BBC News Magazine

From the Victorian era until after World War Two, charity collection dogs were a popular sight in British train stations. They continued their charitable calling even after death.

"Though dead, Jack is still on duty and solicits a continuance of your contributions in support of his good work for the Orphans." So reads the plaque in London Jack's glass display case at the Bluebell Railway museum.

The black retriever has spent almost a century - eight of his living years and a further 83 years as a stuffed corpse - collecting for good causes.

Once famous for patrolling London's Waterloo station, he was one of a group of celebrity dogs who made thousands of pounds for charity from the mid-Victorian era until the 1950s.

He and others like Brighton Bob, Bruce of Swindon, Chelmsford Brenda, Wimbledon Nell and Oldham's Rebel mixed with commuters, sometimes boarding trains on their own to encourage more giving by passengers. They barked, "shook hands" and performed tricks for money, their exploits frequently reported in the national and regional press.

"They were cuter than human beings and people responded to that," says Jan Bondeson, author of Amazing Dogs: A Cabinet of Canine Curiosities. "There were very many postcards printed of them.

"If the dogs were docile enough, they were allowed to walk around the stations on their own. But some were tethered in case they walked in front of a train."

This was not the only risk they faced. In 1896, a gang of criminals picked up Tim, an Irish terrier who worked at London's Paddington station, and held him upside down over a suitcase, shaking him to free up the coins from his collection box. When released, he bit one of his assailants on the calf.

Some dogs were less than honest themselves. Initially they collected coins in their mouths and gave them in, but secure boxes had to be tied to them after a journalist for a Christian magazine discovered in the 1860s that Brighton Bob was using some of his money to buy biscuits at a bakery. :D

The dogs, usually looked after and trained by railway staff, proved popular and lucrative. For this reason there was a whole line of London Jacks. The first, who came into service in 1894, disappeared in 1899, but was later found in a house in Soho, where he was being held by criminals, after a boy heard barking and informed the police.

He retired, died and was stuffed and put on display in a cabinet with a slot for coins at the front. "From his glass case at Waterloo station, he still appeals to the passengers who pass by," reported the Sphere newspaper in 1901. His son took over and was said to stop and look at his late father whenever he passed by.

The fifth Jack - the one now on display at the Bluebell Railway Museum in East Sussex - was born in 1917 and started collecting in 1923. He made more than £4,000 to help maintain an orphanage for railwaymen's children in Woking, Surrey.

He wore, and still wears, a large collection of medals on his back, a silver one awarded for every £100 raised and a gold one for every £500.

In 1924 he was photographed with Jackie Coogan, the child star of Charlie Chaplin's hit comedy film The Kid, as he passed through Waterloo. The event caused a shortage of luggage porters, who rushed to view the meeting of celebrities.

By 1930, Jack's eyesight was going and he retired. The press showed him demonstrating to his successor how to board a train safely with a collection box.

He died the next year. He too was stuffed and mounted in a cabinet. But strangely at some stage during his journey from Waterloo to the Bluebell Railway, which bought him in 1967, he changed colour.

For many years he was regarded as a golden, rather than a black, retriever. A drawing of him featured on a first-day cover sent in 1979 is coloured yellow.

"He was in a case for a number of years and must have become bleached by the light over time," says Colin Tyson, who edits the Bluebell Railway's quarterly newsletter.

Jack went for a restoration five years ago and was dyed black once more after the taxidermist discovered that, judging by his roots, he was not a natural blond. He returned to the Bluebell Railway, where he still collects. For a while his takings went on funding his own renovation costs. Now these are paid off, he collects for Woking Homes, on the site of the old orphanage, which cares for retired railway staff.

"People go to a museum like ours expecting to see preserved locomotives and carriages, not preserved dogs," says Tyson. "But Jack is very popular, especially with the kids. Maybe they expect him to raise a paw when they put a coin in." He doesn't.

According to the station inscription at Slough, Jim arrived when he was three months old. He was described as a "ball of wool that could be carried around in an overcoat pocket"

He collected for the Great Western Railways Orphans' Fund, but because of ill health, managed to collect only £40. He once boarded a train and travelled alone to Leamington. Another time, he turned up at Paddington Station. He could sit up and beg, bow or stand on his hind legs. A dropped, lighted match would be "extinguished with a growl"

Most of the stuffed former station dogs have disappeared or are in private ownership. The most prominent of those still on display is Station Jim, who died aged just two in 1896. He remains in a case on platform five of Slough station. A spoof Twitter feed shares his imaginary observations.

Jim was part of what Bondeson calls the "golden age" of station dogs. By the time Britain's railways were nationalised in 1948, numbers had dwindled. An Airedale terrier called Laddie, who worked at Waterloo until 1956, is thought to have been the last to work the platforms. Stuffed animals were also gradually removed.

"Under the more corporate British Rail, they didn't want things like dead dogs in stations," says Tyson. "But animals like London Jack and Station Jim are a proud part of our railway heritage. They helped a lot of people."
London Jack - 1894-1900 Waterloo Station The original London Jack collected at Waterloo Station between 1894 and 1900
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28420246
 
staticgirl said:
This one is really all in the headline:

Farmer to tour EU in chicken suit

A farmer is set to tour Europe in a chicken costume to call for clearer labelling on poultry meat.

Tamsin French, 23, will visit 21 EU countries dressed as a chicken named Rosa.

Tamsin, whose family run a poultry farm in Devon, wants clear method of production labelling to be displayed on all chicken meat produced in Europe.

Her 39Days4Rosa tour is taking place as the European Commission reviews poultry meat labelling this summer.
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Read more at http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Far ... swUvi41.99
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A farmer to be supported: I'm much more likely to buy locally sourced chicken than ones which have gone on a world tour.
 
rynner2 - heh. Sometimes I haven't a clue where to post something and other times there are several alternatives. Hope you enjoyed the daft photo anyway. :)

ramonmercado - I also support Rosa the chicken. I'd rather buy outddoor foraging local chickens where possible.
 
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