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My friend Deborah Harpur of Harbor City posted this rather bizarre photo on her Facebook page today showing her dogs who have clearly taken over a hotel room in Scottsdale, Ariz. (they travel a lot for agility trials). "They all look a little possessed," she writes. She declined to say which hotel this is.

In the back from left are Thor and Chili Dog; in front, Hobo, PJpupp, Burns, Magi, Gigi and Rickie Roo.

Cats are very strange creatures, a fact I'm beginning to appreciate since I've come to own one a little over a month ago (if one ever does truly "own" a cat).

Here's a story and video from the BBC about Casper, a black-and-white tom cat in the UK, who takes a bus ride every day, curling up -- for free -- on one of the front seats. The bus drivers look after him, dropping him off near home after he makes his rounds.

I don't know what the attraction is but he loves big vehicles like lorries and buses Owner Susan Finden

This comes from fellow pet blogger Laurel Babcock at Paws 'n' Claws  in N.Y.

I thought I'd seen almost everything ... but I've once again been proven wrong. ... Most of  us have seen photos of female animals who have taken on the care and feeding of babies who are not of their own kind. But this was surely a new one to me! ... Thanks to P&C friend and contributor Diane for the photo.

 

Really.

By Lisa Black of the Chicago Tribune:
     A Woodstock, Ill., chiropractor was initially miffed this month when he opened a box of supplies shipped from Texas and noticed tufts of fur. Then he spotted the cat, which had hitched a ride from Dallas.
    "My first reaction was, I didn't know what kind of animal he was, so I closed the box back up," said Brett St. Aubin, clinic director at Chiro One Wellness Center of Woodstock.
    The stowaway's collar identified him as Cody Bennett, 2, a black and white cat who had disappeared from the Chiro Design Group.
    Cody jumped unnoticed into the roughly 2-by-3-foot box as it was being packed, said Marie Webster, whose daughter owns the cat.
    "She taped it up, put the label on it and off he went" via UPS, said Webster.
    Making the best of it, the cat burrowed deeply into a bundle of foam products designed for the neck.
    When St. Aubin called Webster to report Cody's whereabouts, her first thought was that he had found him wandering nearby in Dallas.
    "I didn't know he was in a suburb of Chicago," she exclaimed.
    Cody spent the night at a veterinarian's office and made the trip home the next day, this time by crate.
    He arrived at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport about 3:30 p.m., looking a bit thin, Webster said.
    The cat won't be forgotten anytime soon at the Woodstock chiropractic clinic.
    "We made him patient of the month," St. Aubin said.

(Photo courtesy of April Neill)

YouTube has been a big hit in the Internet age. And they post plenty of funny pet videos, some of which Josh & I have relayed to our readers here.

But now, there's PetTube, a site devoted entirely to pet videos.

This dog sort of looks like Rocket.

Photo by Matthew S. Gumby, AP 

But according to this this story in The Telegraph.   Sam the hound dog is an artist, whose abstract paintings fetch up to $1,700 each.

He paints with the brush in his mouth.

So far, I don't think Rocket has found a way to cash in on his talent for chasing trash trucks.

Photo by Matthew S. Gumby, AP 

The dog was probably just getting revenge for them doing this to him.

HOUSTON --  Prosecutors told jurors Monday that a Texas woman accused of cutting off her infant son's genitals two years ago was a drug abuser who showed no remorse or concern for her child as he was on the verge of death.

Katherine Nadal's defense attorneys, however, said an expert will back up the 28-year-old woman's claim it could have been the family dog, a 6-to-7 pound dachshund, that mutilated her son in their suburban Houston apartment in March 2007.

Nadal is on trial on a charge of injury to a child, a first-degree felony. She faces up to life in prison if convicted of attacking her then-5-week-old son, Holden Gothia. Her trial is expected to last at least a week.

 He is so tiny, visitors often assume he's a stuffed toy. 

Standing at 59cm tall, if Koda the horse wants an equal he has to turn to the vetinary cat for company. The 'American miniature' horse - who suffers the double-whammy of being born a dwarf - has had a bout of health problems caused by his size, but he is now recovering and enjoying the life of a pampered pet.

Here's another pic you can look at before you race out of your house so you can become the first person on your block to get one.

There are so many delightfully screwball sites on the Internet, it's a wonder I manage to get even 45 minutes of work done a day (any more than that and I charge overtime!)

There are sites featuring ugly guys dating hot women, men who look like women, you name it.

But here at Animal Centrial, we offer you this: A site featuring dozens of animals with broken bones, ears and tails. It has an unfortunate name, which accounts for the comic book style swear word in the title of this post. But we're adults. We can handle an occasional F bomb, right? If you're not an adult, get off this site or go ask your mother for permission. I mean it! And stay out of gangs while you're at it.

Here are a coupla pics from the site. Have you ever seen anything as sad and forlorn as an animal wearing one of these?