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Tiny kitten saved from cruel death on railroad Web Posted: 06/14/2007 11:26 PM CDT Brian Chasnoff Express-News The calico kitten was ridden with fleas and so scrawny you could see its backbone. Yet the animal was in far better shape Thursday morning than it had been several hours earlier, when two off-duty security guards on a secluded South Side road saw a man and a woman tying the creature to some railroad tracks with a shoelace, a police report said. Tracks is the name given to the kitten rescued after someone tied the animal to railroad tracks on the South...

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GROVE CITY, Ohio -- A bizarre act of nature was found in Grove City Wednesday -- a kitten was born with two faces. The kitten was born Wednesday morning. It has two mouths that meow in unison, two noses and four eyes that have not opened yet, NBC 4's Mike Bowersock reported. "I was playing outside in the rain. Once I came in, I saw a two-faced cat my mom was picking up. That's how I knew there was a two-faced cat," said Charles Roberts, the cat's owner. Roberts said he hasn't decided on a name for the kitten yet,...

Ok, Guys, We just acquired a 7week old Red Tabby male, Looks pretty much like this guy (Snagged this from Google) Let'er fly gang !!!

A 9-week-old kitten in El Cajon, Calif., is expected to win a place in the record books as the smallest cat in the world, according to a Local 6 News report. Heed the cat is only 3-inches tall and weighs in at just 1.2 pounds, the report said. Once Heed is full-sized in about six months, veterinarians believe he will become the new smallest cat in the world. Heed's owner has already contacted the Guinness Book Of World Records. Watch Local 6 News for more on this story. Copyright 2006 by Internet Broadcasting Systems and Local6.com. All rights reserved. This...

MILWAUKEE — A woman faces up to three years in prison for biting off part of a police officer's finger during an argument over a kitten, authorities said Monday. The officer was called to Pamela Greenlee's house because she was having a dispute with a man over the sale of a kitten

Cat Gives Birth To Mouse-Like Kitten? (CBS4 News) TUNISIA A cat in Tunisia has given birth to something strange. According to the owner of the cat, the litter included 5 regular kittens, and one that more resembles a mouse. The owner says the nose, mouth and ears look like that of a mouse, but the rest of the body is that of a cat. The mother cat doesn't seem to notice or mind. She's nursing and taking care of it, just like the kittens. (© MMVI, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

Cy, short for Cyclopes, a kitten born with only one eye and no nose, is shown in this photo provided by its owner in Redmond, Oregon, on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2005. The kitten, a ragdoll breed, which died after living for one day, was one of two in the litter. Its sibling was born normal and healthy. (AP Photo/Traci Allen)

Her name is Gemini and she was born Sunday with two mouths, two tongues, two noses and four eyes. "I kind of feel sorry for her, because I can't know for a fact if she's going to live or die," its owner, Lee Bluetear, told the (Roseburg) News-Review. "If she makes it, she should be a perfectly normal and healthy cat. Other than having two faces." After examining the kitten, Roseburg veterinarian Alan Ross said he can't estimate the kitten's life span. On first sight, he said he wold not have given Gemini more than a 10 percent chance of...

TheKCRAChannel.com Kitten Born With Two Faces UPDATED: 9:39 am PST March 9, 2005LAKE CITY, Fla. -- When Teresa Morrison's cat had a litter Tuesday, she noticed something was different about one of the kittens."I thought it had growth on its face," she said. Video: Kitten Born With Two Faces The kitten has two mouths, two noses and four eyes. She immediately called her veterinarian."He said he's never seen it. Never," Morrison said. The kitten is nursing from its mother, which the vet said is a good sign."(She's) feeding off one mouth now; sometimes go to the other one, but...

People have flocked to a small village on the outskirts of Cambodia's capital after a man claimed that his ten-year-old pet dog has defied nature and the ancient tradition of her species reviling cats and given birth to a kitten. Owner Te Huot told Deutsche Presse-Agentur that his dog, called Knou, gave birth to a grey tabby kitten after he was visited by a forest monk who claimed that the dog had mated with a tiger. He said it was only the second time in the dog's life that she had given birth, and that the first time, five years...

Election: It's the Cat People vs. the Dog Lovers Written by Burt Prelutsky Sunday, August 15, 2004 All the pundits who are forecasting the November election, busily analyzing blue states, red states, and those all-important purple swing states, are spinning their wheels. At the risk of sounding even more presumptuous than usual, I contend that they are wasting their time and yours. If you want to know who's going to emerge victorious, all you really need to do is find out how many people have cats living with them and how many have dogs. The cat people, I have decided,...

The tabby cat was adopted by the brigade's Team Hammer after he was born last fall at a base in Balad, 50 miles north of Baghdad. The soldiers, who named Hammer after their team, would tuck him under their body armor during artillery attacks. Hammer would catch mice in the mess hall — that earned him a promotion to private first-class — and help soldiers beat the blues. "He was a stress therapist," Rick Bousfield said. "The guys would come back in tired and stressed. Hammer would come back and bug the heck out of you. He wiped away some...

<p>MIAMI, July 7 (UPI) -- An 8-year-old Miami-area boy faces felony charges after causing massive injuries to a 4-month-old kitten because, he told officials, he was bored.</p> <p>The Miami Herald said the kitten suffered a fractured skull, fractured palate and head trauma when the unidentified boy swung it by its tail and slammed it to the ground near his Lauderdale Lakes home.</p>

A SIX-year-old girl became the first female to receive the RSPCA's humane award for saving her kitten from a predatory python. Marlie Coleman did not think twice about taking on the scrub python when it wrapped its jaws around her kitten Sooty in their Cairns backyard earlier this year. The sharp-toothed python let go of the kitten, but attached itself to Marlie's lip, hanging on until her mother heard the screams and shook it off.

LIBERTY, MO -- The case against a man accused of burning a live kitten was dismissed on Friday because the key witness against him changed her story. She said she had a loss of memory. The incident allegedly happened in July at a Liberty apartment complex. A kitten was allegedly thrown in a grill as a group of people watched and cheered. A woman said she pulled out the kitten alive, but it was later put to sleep by a vet. Sherry Scott claimed she rescued the cat. She was considered a hero at the time, but since then, she...

Officers bury tortured cat, investigate dog’s deathBy Bernie Delinski Staff Writer August 14, 2002 Email this story. TUSCUMBIA - A small marker stands at the small mound of newly dug dirt behind the Colbert County Animal Control Office. "Jump over the rainbow bridge into the green pastures below and run free, little friend," it reads. The saying is a prayer traditionally given at funerals of police dogs killed in the line of duty. But Tuesday, it adorned the small grave of a cat. Animal control officers buried the cat a day after they discovered its burned body in a wooded...

"They had a party, and someone decided to torture a cat," Michael said. "They tied a shoestring around its neck and held it up by the string, squirted it with lighter fluid and lit it on fire." Full story here, http://www.timesdaily.com/news/stories/22194newsstories.html

Hernando Beach man charged with beating cat to death Monday, July 29, 2002 Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG — A man accused of luring a cat with food and beating it to death on the back deck of restaurant has been charged with animal cruelty, police said. Martin Stevens, of Hernando Beach, was arrested Friday night at his home after police said he tempted a cat with pieces of chicken, swung the animal around by his tail, and slammed its body on a concrete patio. Witnesses told police that the cat crawled underneath the Bayport Inn's wooden deck after the attack....

Man Gets Probation in Kitten's Death NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A pet store worker who stomped a kitten to death in front of young children waiting to buy it has been sentenced to probation and ordered to undergo anger management counseling. Timothy M. Paules Jr., 23, of Colebrookdale Township, was sentenced to two years of probation for killing the kitten on Oct. 6 while he was working at Zimmer's Pets in Gilbertsville. Paules was convicted of cruelty to animals last month. He has also been ordered to pay a $1,000 fine and serve 100 hours of community service. Judge Joseph...