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Care of Cats by Engineers

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:26:43 GMT

clipped by: ruralart
clipper's remarks: Wonderfully funny - great for cat lovers.

Clip Source: video.yahoo.com

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An Engineer s Guide to Cats

wo professional engineers illustrate the proper care and practical benefits of cats.

Tags: cats, engineers, humor, video

Cat Lady of Baghdad saves pets in Iraq

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:52:06 GMT

clipped by: ruralart
clipper's remarks: Wonderful, but wish we could do as much for the children.

Clip Source: www.thestate.com

BAGHDAD — The mission was to get Simba al-Tikriti out of Iraq and to a new life in Britain.

First, a roadside bomb nearly wiped out the taxi heading to the border with Kuwait. The next step was to hide under tarps in the back of a truck. More hardship awaited: six months caged by authorities in England.

But freedom eventually came for Simba, who walked away from captivity with tail held high.

So began the improbable work of the self-proclaimed Cat Lady of Baghdad.

Since Simba’s journey three years ago, she has managed to send four more cats and two dogs back to her native England. The costs — which can run up to $3,500 per animal — are covered by donations and her “old stuff” sold on eBay.

It is impossible to gauge how many dogs, cats and other animals have been rescued in Iraq in the past five years by soldiers and foreigners.

But as she left Baghdad for a vacation, there beside her sat Tigger, a skinny street cat with half a tail, on his way to Britain.

Tags: iraq, cats, dogs, pets

Cats on the Prowl

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:20:22 GMT

clipped by: ruralart
clipper's remarks: Works in my house! Three cats, no mice or rats. They keep the yard mole free too!

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

To Dismay of Inspectors, Prowling Cats Keep Rodents on the Run at City Delis

Amid the goods found in the stores, there is one thing that many owners and employees say they cannot do without: their cats. And it goes beyond cuddly companionship. These cats are workers, tireless and enthusiastic hunters of unwanted vermin, and they typically do a far better job than exterminators and poisons.

When a bodega cat is on the prowl, workers say, rats and mice vanish.

To store owners, the services of cats are indispensable in a city where the rodent problem is serious enough to be documented in a still popular two-minute video clip on YouTube from late February (youtube.com/watch?v=su0U37w2tws) of rats running amok in a KFC/Taco Bell in Greenwich Village. Store-dwelling cats are so common that there is a Web site, workingclasscats.com, dedicated to telling their tales.

“Before you’d see giant rats running in off the streets into the store, but since Junior, no more,” he said.