Dog and cat are inseparable

A special case of puppy love has two animal shelters working together to find the right home for a pair of best friends. When the staff at the Town Lake Animal Center (TLAC) opened the night drop box, they found a big brown Pointer/Cattle Dog mix named Reddy Boy curled up with a little 4-month-old tabby cat called Mousey. A note from their previous owner that stated they were the best of friends and that Reddy Boy gets nervous when he's not near his girl Mouse. The letter said they should not be separated. TLAC does not have an area where the close chums could be housed together, so they transferred the cat and dog to the Austin Humane Society.
Reddy Boy and Mousey will live together at the Humane Society until they could be adopted together. "This odd couple plays together, hangs out together, sleep and cuddle together, and even drink out of the same water bowl," says Robin Brandon, AHS Operations Director. "Through our transfer program with TLAC, we were able to bring over 1,100 cats and dogs to our AHS adoption program last year, and this is just another example of how we work together."
Reddy Boy about 2 years old, housetrained, walks well on the leash and knows some commands. Officials at the shelter say he is a very smart dog and eager to please. Mousey is about 4-months-old, very affectionate toward people (and Reddy;) she is also confident and playful and litter trained.
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Elephant falls in love with zoo keeper

An love-struck elephant has fallen for her zoo keeper.

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Wild otter checks itself into the Jacksonville zoo

When the keepers shut down the otter exhibit at Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens Sunday, they left one otter out in the exhibit overnight.
When they came back to open up Monday morning, there were two.
Nope, there wasn’t a birth. A wild North American river otter had found its way in to make itself part of the exhibit.
Craig Miller, curator of mammals, said that’s the first time he’s heard of that happening at the zoo.
"We get birds or squirrels coming in, of course," but never this.
He’s not exactly sure how the otter got in, but the exhibit is primarily designed to make sure the animals inside don’t get out. There’s a gently sloped hill behind the exhibit, and he figures maybe the otter climbed that and squeezed between the gate and the fence.
Once it got to the top of the wall, there was a six- or eight-foot jump down to the water.
Then there’s the question of why. Otters aren’t particularly social, Miller said, and both the wild and captive animals are male. But there were two females back in the holding area.
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Monkey Adopted by Pigs!

A red-tailed guenon monkey who thinks he is a farm animal.

Filmed in Rumangabo, DR Congo.

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Subwoofer Cat

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Injured deer finds vet

A US vet was amazed when an injured wild deer burst into the building where his clinic is based.
A manager at a PetSmart store in Rossford, near Toledo, Ohio, opened a door and spotted the wounded deer outside.
The animal, which was lying in a pool of bloody snow, jumped up and ran through the just opened door, reports the Toledo Blade.
Once inside, the female deer lay down on the floor as blood dripped from her left hind leg, recalled store Manager Trudi Urie.
She called Dr Agustin Cuesta, who works in the veterinary clinic inside PetSmart, who was able to treat the deer's injury and return her to the wild.
"Of all the places to run into, a pet store that has vets in it," said Ms Urie.
Dr Cuesta said the deer had suffered two or three deep cuts and that bone was showing through the fur. He could not determine what caused the injury.
He placed a numbing agent on the wounds before closing the wounds with dissolvable stitches, while covering the deer's head with a towel to stop her panicking.
"We took off the towel from her eyes and slowly she got to her feet," Dr. Cuesta said. "She stood frozen for a few seconds, but after that she ran out of the store."
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One of a Kind Small Car

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When Money Is Not A Problem

Tree House

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Chloe Takes a Shower

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Software glitch leads to 1-cent gas in Dutch town

Nighttime was the right time to get tanked Friday in the Dutch town of Genderen.
An unmanned gas station began offering customers gas for 1 euro cent per liter, or about 1.5 cents Cdn per liter, due to a software glitch that occurred around midnight. That was a discount of more than 99 per cent.
"Most people were home in bed, so it could have been worse," Piet-Hein Bogaers, director of the company that operates the station, Vollenhoven Olie BV, said Monday.
As word of the deal spread, business boomed at the station, 100 kilometers southeast of Amsterdam.
Bogaers said that, by the time the mistake was fixed Saturday morning, customers were lined up to buy gas. Many had even called to alert the company.
"They were saying, 'This can't be right,' " he said.
It wasn't. Bogaers declined to say how much money Vollenhoven lost but hundreds of liters were sold at the discounted price.
"I guess we can consider it good publicity, even if it wasn't intentional," he said.
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