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PORTLAND, Ore. - A 20-pound cat whose girth got him stuck in a pet door while trying to plunder some dog food was reunited with his owner Thursday. Owner Geoff Ernest said the tubby tabby, Hercules, went missing while he was in Seattle for a lung transplant six months ago. Jadwiga Drozdek, who lives in suburban Portland, found the feline stuck in the dog door of her home a few days ago, helped free him and gave him a plate of food on her patio. While at the Humane Society, Hercules was diagnosed with Feline Immunodeficiency Virus, similar to HIV...

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An Iraqi dad has risked everything to save his 11-month-old daughter's life, first traveling to Baghdad's infamous Abu Ghraib prison (search) to plead for help, then winding up in the United States for his baby's medical care. The little girl, Tabby, was in surgery Friday in Charleston to remove life-threatening blood tumors called hemangiomas (search), which have caused her face to be excessively swollen and deformed. At Abu Ghraib, the father met with the U.S. Marines 4th Civil Affairs Group and Navy Cmdr. Dr. Louis Tripoli, who recognized how serious the little girl's condition was.

http://www.chiefwiggles.com/blog/ Update on Tabby Wednesday, September 22, 2004 An update on Tabby: Many of you have expressed your concern about the status of Tabby, the Iraqi 9 month old little girl whose life we are trying to save. As you know she has a hemangioma that is threatening her young life, which is preventing her from eating anything but liquids at this point. Her condition continues to decline as the growth continues to spread. I have been in touch with the doctors and others in Baghdad on a daily basis, who have been keeping me a breast of her current...

Posted on Mon, Nov. 25, 2002 A not quite purr-fect projectDespite selling only 12 of his pet doorbells, Tony Vena remains optimistic.By Reid KanaleyInquirer Staff Writer When Phoenix, a 9-year-old tabby cat, wants in or out of the house, he rings the doorbell.By pawing at special switches mounted cat-high inside and outside of his Vincentown, N.J., house, loud chimes announce Phoenix's need for egress or ingress.The cat's owner, Tony Vena, 72, a talkative former Philadelphia parking lot operator now living in busy semi-retirement, thinks he is on to something with that doorbell - which he invented with an eye...

<p>Four-year-old Kate Holland, who weighs about 35 pounds, looks in at Diamond at the Peninsula Humane Society.</p> <p>No one at the Peninsula Humane Society in San Mateo knows how the adoptable cat called Diamond came to tip the scales at 30 pounds.</p>