This is ONE smart cat!

He gets on the 331 bus several times a week, rides down the road to the Fish and Chips joint, gets and gets off.

"Since January, when the cat first caught the bus he has done it two or three times a week and always gets on and off at the same stops. "

Pretty neat. Smart cat. :)

Mystery Cat Takes the Bus To the Fish & Chips Stop

"How did the mouse population grow so large in the villages? MacKenzie noticed the remarkable lack of cats. He learned that, a few years earlier, in a well-meaning health measure, Bolivia had initiated a massive DDT-spraying campaign to eliminate malaria. However, the spraying also poisoned thousands of cats. As the cats died off, the mouse population rose. A well-intentioned government program inadvertently contributed to a deadly plague. Sometimes well-meaning mankind can be its own worst enemy."

No matter if you have an opinion on it or not - that's irrelevant really, just a comment I couldn't help but throw in - if you are interested in medical science, this is a good read.

Machupo - aka Why I don't think mandatory sterilization of cats should be a law

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""A month ago, many female cats in heat came to harass him, and then the wings started to grow," she said."

Cat grows wings after being sexually harrassed

Very easy to use link - search for your pet food, and make sure your animals are safe.

They've expanded the list. There's a second poisonous chemical found. From other articles I've read, China is not being as cooperative as they could be.

Funny, isn't it, coming from a country that clubbed so many dogs not long ago for no real good reason....and the country that sold us dog fur for fake fur.

Maybe our pet food ingredients shouldn't come from there, huh?

Pet food recall expanded - Link to check your furbaby's food

This is totally OFF the cuteness scale. The timing is so right, and the music too.

Warning - Frenchies and Tabbies Alert

We have been blessed for the last several years with a small, sweet female cat that we called Miss. Puss Puss. She was the sweetest little cat I've ever known. She often sat on my monitor for hours, hoping to get a little bit of a neck rub now and then.

Tonight, I was baking cookies with my son in the kitchen. The dryer went off and I went to get the clothes out. A few of them still felt a bit damp as I pulled them out. About that time, my timer on the oven went off, and I went to the next room to get the cookies out. I returned, put the clothes that were laying out on the dryer door back in the dryer, and shut the door and started it.

My son said that something was bumping in the dryer, and I told him that daddy probably had put some shoes in it.

About 20 minutes later I returned to fold clothes and found my kitties little body in the dryer. It was truly horrifying.

My child and I just cried all night. He finally went to sleep, and I do what I always do - checked the Internet.

I see from reading that this is not that uncommon. It doesn't make me feel any less horrible though.

Watch your cats with dryers, guys. Our cat often slept on top of the dryer, but never IN it. All it takes is once.

It was probably a horrible death and our little kitty is gone.

If I had it to do over, I would put a sign on my dryer reminding all of us to check it before turning it on, to shoo the cat and maybe even swat her tail if she was ever caught near it, and to keep that darn door shut.