Archive for the 'Pets' Category

Last week, Yahoo placed a story about the burgeoning friendship of a dog and fawn.

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

These stories sometimes prove to be too syrupy for words; so I re-interpreted the photograph.
I had decided that I wouldn’t post it because it was a bit strange.
Then I read  a story which easily trumped my cartoon with a shovel full of reality.
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Euclid woman, 75, charged in fatal beating of fawn
Posted by Jeff Piorkowski […]

The real surprise is that someone found a mailbox.

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

Kitten dropped, discovered in Boston city mailbox
AP

Tue Jun 16, 9:19 pm ET
BOSTON – Officials said a two-pound, eight-week-old kitten was dropped in a public mailbox in Boston and later found unharmed among envelopes and packages. According to the MSPCA Animal Care and Adoption Center, the kitten they’re calling “Postina” likely was stuffed Friday through a […]

Five Reasons the Atlantis/Hubble Space Walks Are The Most Dangerous Yet Taken.

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

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SECURITY

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THE CARGO

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THE EQUIPMENT

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THE NEIGHBORHOOD

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THE STOWAWAY
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Images: (Security) NASA via 1.usatoday.net;  spacesuit via marsonearth.org; pit bull via fortworthinjurylawbblog.com; Hubble (Cargo) tnt Warner Bros. via farm1.static.flickr.com; NASA via sciencenews.org; (Neighborhood) NASA via sm.mdacorporation.com;Paradise Square-GANGS OF NEWYORK vis odeon.typepad.com; (Equipment) NASA; (Stowaway) MING via therollerblog.com; NASA via cnet.news;

According to news reports, Senator Rosa S.P.E.C.T.R.E. swithces parties.

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Do we really want him?

Then again, maybe Ricky Santorum will run against him to protect society from men marrying their schnauzers.
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Please read here.
Images: (Lotte/Shaw FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE) 1- via dr.dk; 2 - via jamesbond007.net via democraticunderground.com; (Santorum) 1-via blog.pennlive.com;2- via washblade.com; (Specter) 1- via publius.dk via liberaldoomsayer.com;; 2- via stanford.edu; (Smurfs) drawn […]

I would have liked to be in the neighborhood after “A Man For All Seasons” played on the Turner Classic Movies channel.

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

NJ cops kick in door over bird’s cries for help
Fri Sep 5, 7:58 PM ET
Associated Press
TRENTON, N.J. - Cries for help inside a Trenton, N.J., home turned out to be for the birds. Neighbors called police Wednesday morning after hearing a woman’s persistent cry of “Help me! Help me!” coming from a house. Officers arrived […]

Kangaroo Attacks Elderly Woman; Chased Away By Pet Dog–Yahoo headline, 7/19/2008

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

This is what I saw…

Fallen U.S. troops cremated at ‘Friends Forever Pet Cremation Service.’

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Wake up, Folks! This administration is beneath all contempt.

Think Progress
May 10, 2008
Since 2001, the U.S. military has cremated the remains of approximately 200 service members at Friends Forever Pet Cremation Service, a Delaware facility that primarily cremates pets. The practice was stopped yesterday, as the Washington Post reports:
The revelation came to light when an Army […]

“But Rossiter asked him to spare the expensive python, so Nelson put on gloves and pried open the snake’s mouth to free Rossiter’s hand.”

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Oregon cop battles 12-foot python to save pet store owner
Sat Apr 19, 3:00 PM ET
AP
A pet store owner is calling a police sergeant a hero for saving her from the coils of a 12-foot Burmese python doing its best to turn her into a meal.
Teresa Rossiter had reached into a cage Thursday to show the […]

So Max Cady was a duck?

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

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Reuters
NY duck gets “order of protection” after attack
Fri Apr 4, 2008 5:39pm EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A pet duck named Circles, shot and wounded by a neighbor with a pellet gun, has received an order of protection to keep it safe, the first duck in New York state’s Suffolk County to benefit from such an […]

Tail-Wagger Joe has morphed into Senator Sniffy.

Monday, March 24th, 2008

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We Don’t Know This Sen. Joe
Published on 3/23/2008 in Home Editorial
The Day.com
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When The Day endorsed Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman for re-election in November 2006 it was supporting a candidate who demonstrated a history of pragmatic leadership and a willingness to seek bipartisan solutions.
We wonder what happened to that senator.
Sen. Lieberman’s open-ended commitment to military involvement […]