A cat that disappeared in 1997 has now been reunited with her owner ten years after she went missing. Lynx turned up at an animal sanctuary 60 miles away from her home. The animal sanctuary was able to track down her owner because Lynx had been micro chipped.
Month: June 2007
Chicken Raises Ducklings
This chicken is raising three ducklings as her own after the eggs were abandoned by their natural mother. The duck who laid the eggs gave up incubating them after 21 days and the hen took over. She is now busy teaching them how to be chickens including how to scratch around for food.
Tesco to Move into the Property Market
Tesco have announced its latest step in their move towards world domination, not content with being the biggest supermarket in the UK, they have now decided to move into the property market. Their property sales service will let sellers list their homes on a Tesco website for a fee of £200. Sellers will also get a…
Zebra Horse
This little guy is called Eclyse. He gets his interesting colour because his father is a zebra and his mother a horse. His mother apparantly took a shine to a male zebra whilst on vacation and this is the result. What amazing markings.
Why Cats Love Us
I came across this article which looks at how cats became domesticated. It suggests that cats actually domesticated themselves because being near people they were never short on food. The association between people and cats appears to stem from the fact that cats fed on the rodents that fed on the grain stored by people….
All You Can Eat
A man at a Premier Travel Inn in Tonbridge made sure he got a good breakfast for his money. He paid for the “all you can eat” breakfast which costs £7.50. After managing to eat 15 fried breakfasts, thats an amazing 30 sausages, 20 rashers of bacon, 15 fried eggs and three tins of beans, he…
Black Widow Found in Grapes
A librarian in Cheshire had a shock when she found a Black Widow in a bunch of grapes. The grapes had been purchased at a Tesco Express store which later called in the exterminators to check the premises. A Tesco representative said that finding one of these spiders is “a rare occurrence”.
Wheelie Bin Theft
If you read my husband’s blog you will know that our wheelie bin was stolen a few months ago. Bearing this in mind I found this article interesting. A wheelie bin which belongs to Peterborough City Council apparently turned up 1,200 miles away in Bulgaria. The bin was spotted by a council employee whilst she…
Poor Kittens
I read this article about five kittens that were left to die in a bin. Due to the heavy rain the bin had filled with water and the poor things were left struggling to survive as the water got higher. The weakest of the kittens had lost their fight for survival and died before anyone…