P&A News @ August 31, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Pigeon In Flight
How do you punish a criminal who uses a bird to deliver drugs while he is already in jail? Put the bird in the slammer as an accomplice.
Such is the solution that Bosnian prison officials arrived at when the bird was discovered arriving on a prison ledge and shortly after several inmates appearing “under the [...]
P&A News @ August 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Yoda, the Four “Eared” Cat
His name is Yoda, but he is not green. However he does have a feature that might be found on a Star Wars character, a second set of ears.
Yoda is a gray cat with a pleasant disposition and four ear flaps. The unusual feature is due to a genetic miscue.
At least [...]
P&A News @ August 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
China, The Dog That Saved a Baby’s Life
A newborn baby was brought by police to the Melchor Romero Hospital in La Plata, Argentina at 11:30 PM on Wednesday, August 20. Other than a few superficial cuts and scratches, the baby was in good health according to Dr. Egidio Melia, Director of the hospital.
The fact that [...]
P&A News @ August 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Hubcap-Stealing Bear
It is said that what goes around comes around. Azra Noonari, 39, who recently had all four of her car’s hubcaps stolen, could not have anticipated how that maxim would come true.
This past July, Ms Noonari, packed up her two children and traveled to Bedfordshire, UK for a family trip to the Woburn Safari [...]
P&A News @ August 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Sir Nils Olav
This penguin is no ordinary penguin. You must address him as “Sir.”
On August 15, Nils Olav completed a series of promotions by being elevated to knighthood.
The formal ceremony was performed at the Edinburgh Zoo. British Major General Euan Loudon officiated the ceremony.
Nils lack of shoulders posed a challenge when he was dubbed. To confirm his regimental knighthood, the sword was dubbed [...]
P&A News @ August 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Dawn the Python Meet Kurtis the Weatherman
If you think that predicting the weather is hard enough, imagine doing so while a reptile gives you unexpected affection.
For meterorologist Kurtis Gertz of KCCI-TV in Des Moines, the embarrassing sequence began at a live broadcast from the Iowa State Fair on Thursday, August 7.
Gertz was somehow compelled to appear with [...]
P&A News @ August 10, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Yawns are contagious to dogs as well as humans.
So say scientists from Birkbeck College at the University of London, who performed studies exhibiting this characteristic.
Two tests were performed by the research team. Each experiment utilized 29 dogs.
In the first test, a stranger yawned once and only when the dog made eye contact with them.
In the second [...]
P&A News @ August 10, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Fetch boy
Seeing a man and his dog play fetch with a ball is a pleasant sight. Heads turn when the animal fetching the ball is an eagle with an eight-foot wingspan.
Evie, a white-tailed eagle, was bred in captivity in Belgium and re-located to George Hedges’ Devon’s Eagles, when she was two-years-old. Devon’s Eagles is a falconry located in [...]
P&A News @ August 10, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Jarvis and owner, Vivienne Oxley
Jarvis, a Jack Russell, was spending a day with his owners out at a country estate in Cornwall, UK. All was well until Jarvis could not be found.
Owner Vivienne Oxley and volunteers searched for her dog for over two hours throughout Torpoint, a nearby 865-acre park.
A discouraged Ms. Oxley then received a call from a park [...]
P&A News @ August 10, 2008 # Comments Off
Eurasian Badger
German police in the town of Linz were called into action Monday night, August 4.
Screams of a distressed woman were heard in the nearby woods and reported to the police.
Helicopters with night vision were scrambled to locate and assist the woman needing assistance.
By night’s end, all that had been found in the woods were [...]
P&A News @ August 10, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Hector and the troublesome stick
How does a dog consume a stick that is nearly two-feet long and one-inch wide without breaking it?
First, he better be a big dog.
Hector is a one-year-old great dane that weighs over 150 pounds. Even so, such a stick measures to over two-thirds of his body length.
Perhaps that is why the stick became an [...]
P&A News @ August 10, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Aussie, the upside down goldfish
The backstroke is an expected part of Olympic swimming competition and the Australians have featured their share of stars. The bar at the Globe Inn in Exeter, Australia can add another backstroker, but in a non-Olympic venue.
Aussie is a goldfish who has spent the last four years swimming upside down in [...]
P&A News @ August 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Powder aka “Prince Chunk”, Al Schell/Courier-Post
He has been confirmed to be male. His celebrity star is rising after appearing on “Regis and Kelly” and other television and radio shows. The vet has established that his weight is not due to a medical condition, but to over-eating.
Now the 44-pound cat known as “Prince Chunk, has a home in [...]
P&A News @ August 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Ernie out for a run
Drivers on I-95 saw an unusual site on Monday, August 4, a horse at full gallop on the interstate.
Ernie, a 5-year-old horse had escaped from an Ipswich, MA farm where he is boarded. He leapt a 6-foot fence just before 4:00 PM and found his way to I-95 at Exit 53.
Witnesses [...]
P&A News @ August 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
“Comfy cows are happy cows.” So says Jerry Greenfield of Ben and Jerry’s. And with that philosophy was born the idea of the “Caring Dairy.”
So how are cows treated under this initiative? At a farm in the Netherlands, owner Nancey Vermeer is providing 80 cows with massages. They have mattresses and, sometimes, waterbeds to sleep on instead of the hard concrete.
“Our cows [...]
P&A News @ August 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Sheep on the roof - OK, now what do I do?
They say that sheep are most in danger when they leave the flock. One individual took that risk to new heights.
As this sheep was grazing in a nearby cottage’s yard, it must have eyed the greenery that was growing between the tiles of a two-story house [...]