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

Noooooooo! Behemoth, the huge black cat who lives in the Bulgakov museum in Moscow, has been abducted!

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https://life.ru/t/новости/1139960/p...iemota_pokhitili_iz_muzieia_bulghakovskii_dom

Now who likes to snatch pussies?
 
Meet Macca, the stoat detecting dog. :) He is from New Zealand but is currently detecting stoats in Orkney where they are an invasive species. Humane traps are then set.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-45039339

Orkney has a stoat problem, and Macca the Fox Terrier has been flown in from New Zealand to help get rid of them.

It is the first time in the UK a dog has been used for the task.

Stoats are native to the British mainland but are a menace to small creatures like voles, hen harriers and short-eared owls in Orkney.

Macca does not kill stoats, but indicates their location to his handler. This helps conservationists to decide where to set humane traps.

He has been finding stoats in New Zealand, the only other place where the animal is an invasive species, for over two years.
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I saw a dead stoat in the road the other day.
 
ramonmercado said:
Noooooooo! Behemoth, the huge black cat who lives in the Bulgakov museum in Moscow, has been abducted!

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https://life.ru/t/новости/1139960/primieta_--_surovyi_kharaktier_kota_bieghiemota_pokhitili_iz_muzieia_bulghakovskii_dom

Now who likes to snatch pussies?
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He's back!

Behemoth - a cat who was stolen from his home in a Russian museum - has been returned alive but is feeling "discontent".

In a posting on their Facebook page, the Bulgakov House Museum Theatre in Moscow said a woman grabbed their resident cat and ran away.

The theft was reported to the police on Wednesday morning and much to the delight of well-wishers on social media, Behemoth was found later that evening.

Behemoth is named after the talking cat from the Mikhail Bulgakov novel The Master and Margarita and has lived at the museum dedicated to the writer for 13 years.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-45044353
 
Poor Behemoth. What a horrible thing to do. I hope he recovers and becomes content again soon.
 
Should they wear Dog Martens?

Police in the Swiss city of Zurich are urging owners to buy shoes for their dogs, in order to protect their paws in the high temperatures, reports say.

According to the public broadcaster SRF, the police in Zurich have launched the "Hot Dog campaign", and are educating dog owners on how they can protect their four-legged friends in the hot weather, given that the overheated pavements can be painful on their feet.

A prolonged heatwave throughout Europe means that Switzerland has had one of the hottest summers since records began in 1864, with temperatures this July hovering around 30 degrees Celcius (86 degrees Fahrenheit). Parts of the country have also experienced droughts, the SwissInfo news website reports.

According to Zurich Police Spokesperson Michael Walker, 30 degrees can feel like 50-55 degrees on the ground, and can cause particular discomfort to canines.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-45048914
 
Maybe the only horse they serve is in the burgers?

A woman says that staff at a McDonald’s drive-through refused to serve her because her “vehicle” was a horse.

Keen rider Louise Carter, 48, of Worcestershire, was watching England’s World Cup semi-final last month when she got a craving for fast food.

“Once you get your mind sorted on a Big Mac you have to have one,” she told Worcester News.

Noticing that the roads were unusually quiet due to the football match, she decided to saddle up for the short ride to nearby Malvern Shopping Park.

However, after trotting three and a half miles along the A449, when she arrived at the drive-through McDonald’s her attempt to satisfy her Big Mac craving was thwarted.

“They said ‘I can’t serve you, you are not a car’,” she said. “I never thought I’d have some jobsworth saying that. I know I’m not a vehicle.”

Carter later posted on Facebook that she and her steed had taken their custom to a nearby Caffe Nero for a “a lovely toastie and a latte”.

http://www.theweek.co.uk/95531/hors...letter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter
 
Normal For Norfolk.

A man has been charged with walking a pig along a busy city street in Norwich - without a lead.

Norfolk Police were called to Prince of Wales Road on Wednesday and found the untethered pig "running around" with a dog, which bit one of the officers.

The man was arrested and later charged with highways and public order offences, and having a dangerously out-of-control dog.

The pig was taken away by the RSPCA and the man will appear in court later.

Officers were called to reports of a man being abusive to members of the public at about 10:10 BST on Wednesday.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-45130907
 
Cows chase suspect into custody in Florida. I used to know someone who's advice was that if a police helicopter was tracking you with infrared, the best thing to make yourself invisible is to get on the back of a cow .. perhaps not as easy to do in urban areas though ..

 
Police in Germany rescue man being chased by baby squirrel

Officers in Karlsruhe arrive to find man unable to shake off tiny rodent

Emergency services received a call on Thursday from the man, who claimed he was being chased down the street by the tiny animal.

Police in Karlsruhe said the unnamed man called them in desperation after he was unable to shake off the small rodent.

Officers sent a patrol car out to investigate and arrived to find the chase still in full flow. But the drama ended suddenly when the squirrel, apparently exhausted by its exertions, lay down abruptly and fell asleep.

Police appeared more amused than alarmed. “A squirrel will be our new mascot, it will be christened Karl-Friedrich,” said the police write-up. “The squirrel has fallen asleep in fright.”

Officers took the sleeping Karl-Friedrich into police custody, and then to an animal rescue centre, where it was said to be doing well.
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Here's the offender

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'Intelligent' crows to pick up litter at French theme park

Six crows specially trained to pick up cigarette ends and rubbish will be put to work next week at a French historical theme park, its president said on Friday.

Rooks, a member of the crow family of birds that also includes the carrion crow, jackdaw and raven, are considered to be "particularly intelligent" and in the right circumstances "like to communicate with humans and establish a relationship through play", Villiers said.

The birds will be encouraged to spruce up the park through the use of a small box that delivers a tasty nugget of bird food each time the rook deposits a cigarette end or small piece of rubbish, he added.

https://www.expatica.com/fr/news/country-news/France-tourism-birds-offbeat_2031808.html

Have they thought this through? Training corvids to place (lit?) fag ends inside human structures could end very badly.

maximus otter
 
ramonmercado said:
Normal For Norfolk.

A man has been charged with walking a pig along a busy city street in Norwich - without a lead.

Norfolk Police were called to Prince of Wales Road on Wednesday and found the untethered pig "running around" with a dog, which bit one of the officers.

The man was arrested and later charged with highways and public order offences, and having a dangerously out-of-control dog.

The pig was taken away by the RSPCA and the man will appear in court later.

Officers were called to reports of a man being abusive to members of the public at about 10:10 BST on Wednesday.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-45130907
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Update:

Man admits walking pig without lead in Norwich

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-45145522
 
No respect for the Hippocratic Oath.

Two people have been killed in separate hippopotamus attacks in Kenya, according to local officials.

A Chinese tourist, identified as 66-year-old Chang Ming Chuang, was reportedly attempting to photograph a hippopotamus at a wildlife resort on Lake Naivasha, 90km (56 miles) north-west of the capital, Nairobi.

Witnesses say the tourist got too close to the animal, which fatally bit him on the chest. A second Chinese tourist was also injured in the attack and is recovering in hospital.

Separately, a local fisherman was also mauled and killed by a hippopotamus only a few kilometres from the site of the first attack.

Local official David Kilo told Kenya’s Standard Media that a “rise in water levels had contributed to hippo attacks”, as the animals sought pasture closer to resorts around the lake.

The deaths are the sixth due to hippo attacks in the area this year, and the BBCsays that hippos “kill an estimated 500 people every year in Africa”.

http://www.theweek.co.uk/95777/two-...letter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter
 
Sounds disturbingly human.
 
Yithian said:
Moose are tough.

This photograph of one from near Anchorage, Alaska has been floating around for a while. Various suggestions have been made, the most popular being that it survived bear attack, a tick infestation or a lightning strike!


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That looks like a lightning strike. Poor thing!
 
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