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Commentary: Erie pet owners must be more responsible |
| Aug. 30 - When reporter Gerry Weiss wrote about overcrowded pet shelters, he reported the facts about a growing problem in Erie - so many people have abandoned their pets, especially cats, that local shelters can't care for all the animals... |
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Cats bring second life to decayed Taiwanese mining town |
HOUTONG, Taiwan - A surfeit of cats is giving a second life to a decayed Taiwanese coal-mining town that last prospered in the 1970s.
Visitors' raves on local blogs have helped draw dozens of cat lovers to fondle, frolic and... |
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Ask the vet's pets: Cat's tail tells a tale |
| Dear Christopher Cat: We love to watch our two indoors cats and guess the meaning of their tail signals. They're as different as night and day: one cat runs with her tail up and the other with her tail down. The tips of their tails... |
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Cats Deserve Better! |
Sometimes you bark at me, sometimes you purr. Here a few recent letters and emails:
"I really enjoyed your piece about cats who can't find homes. It really breaks my heart to hear how often cats are mistreated. I know so many... |
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Belgium plans to sterilize most cats by 2016 |
BRUSSELS - Belgium is set to embark on a radical plan to sterilize most cats in the country by 2016, an official said Wednesday, confirming a report by the Sud Presse newspaper group.
The measure is meant to solve the problem of... |
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Is someone poisoning Lebanon's feral cats? |
Some residents in Lebanon's 400 block of East Weidman Street are upset that as many as 20 stray cats that roamed the neighborhood died suddenly several weeks ago.
And while one resident believes another poisoned the animals, a... |
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German cat turns on vacuum, causes emergency alert |
BERLIN - A cat home alone in Germany apparently turned on the vacuum cleaner, frightened itself half to death and wound up being attended to by emergency services.
Police in the Bavarian city of Bayreuth said a neighbor... |
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Kitten survives N.Y.-Pa. ride stuck inside car grill |
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - A 5-week-old Siamese kitten is recovering after surviving a nearly three-hour ride while stuck inside a the grill of car traveling from Western New York to northeastern Pennsylvania.
Jenna Arsenault,... |
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Pet Tales: How to get cats, dogs to behave |
| July 31 - Even the most lovable pets sometimes do things that drive owners crazy. Dogs that "can't" be housebroken and cats that urinate or defecate outside the litter box are high on the list of behavior problems that cause some people to... |
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Firefighters dismantle police car to rescue kitten |
VIENNA - This little kitty went home - but only after Vienna police and firefighters partially dismantled a police car to find it.
The naughty feline first woke residents of the Austrian neighborhood with its desperate... |
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Elusive kitten rescued from sewer in Allegheny County |
| July 8 - One very small, very frightened kitten was rescued from a storm sewer in South Park, Allegheny County on Wednesday after a team of residents, plumbers, public works and PennDOT employees, and an animal control officer spent more... |
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