Tag Archives: oddities
And The “Hambone” Goes To…
… the yellow Lab that ate the beehive. The whole beehive!
Each year Veterinary Pet Insurance Co (VPI) presents the Hambone award to the dog who has the nation’s most unusual pet insurance claims.
This year’s winner is Ellie, a 1 year-old yellow Labrador from Santee (way to bring home the gold for San Diego!!!). The [...]
Alligator Found in Queens, NY
It isn’t big news for an alligator to be found hiding behind a car in Florida, but it sure is when one is found hunkered down under a Datsun on Newtown Ave. and 29th St. in Astoria.
New Yorkers were treated to the exceptionally rare sighting of the two-foot long alligator Sunday afternoon. NYPD kept the growing [...]
Mice Surfin’ Safari
Yesterday we had a story about a moose romping in the surf, today is mice surfing the big waves!
. . . Okay, pretty much any and every wave is a big wave to a mouse.
Shane Wilmott, 39, a boat builder, creates teeny-tiny mouse-sized surf boards for his trained mice to use on very small waves [...]
Moose Plays in Surf
Beachgoers in York, Maine were treated to an unusual sight recently – a very large moose playing in the waves!
The moose is believed to be the same one that local police had received several sighting reports on the same day. He (or maybe she – not sporting antlers) came down the beach and ran straight [...]
Weekly News Round Up 8/13/10
It’s Friday the 13th of August (watch out for black cats hanging out under ladders!) and here’s the rest of the news from the animal world…
The extra set of ears on this kitten give it a rakish look, kind of like wearing a tilted fedora . . . We’ve all heard about the cab driver who [...]
Cat Saved from Becoming Dinner for Crazy Owner
Navarro, a Buffalo cat, was rescued from the nasty fate of becoming his owner’s dinner when the car he was traveling in failed to stop at a stop sign.
Police pulled over Gary Korkuc, the driver and Navarro’s owner. During the traffic stop the officer heard a cat crying from the trunk and went to investigate. [...]
Pomeranian Undergoes Gender Reassignment Surgery
This is one of those odd, “only in California” (and I say that as a Californian) stories . . .
Red, a less-than-one year old Pomeranian, was found wandering the streets of San Bernardino. At the shelter when they did his physical exam they found that Red was a hermaphrodite, having underdeveloped male and female sex organs. The [...]
Break-In Bear Eats, Drinks and Steals Toy
A New Hampshire house was broken into by a hungry black bear. To be fair to the bear the door was unlocked.
The bear got into the kitchen and ate two pears and a grape bunch before drinking from the fishbowl and stealing a stuffed bear toy as he headed back out the open door.
The homeowner, [...]
Dangerous Doormats – The Gators That Came to Visit
Tuesday’s big reptile stories inspired one of our readers to send me the following articles. These are old news but I had to share. Can you imagine going to get the morning paper and almost stepping on one of these guys??? I guess the trade off for not having earthquakes like we do in California [...]
Boozy Boozy Boy Rides 16 Ft. Croc & Lives
Thank you alcohol for giving me stories like this to report.
Proving once again (not that this needs to be proven at all) that drunken decisions are always bad – that tattoo, that elopement, that flexible rate mortgage, ohh the list goes on – a 34 year-old Australian man thought breaking into the crocodile enclosure and [...]