Tag: Cats
Pet rescuer gets jail for starving cats in Miami apartment
MIAMI — A self-styled pet rescuer has been sentenced to 364 days in jail for animal cruelty after hoarding cats and allowing them to...
Mayor: Crews did everything possible to find missing pets
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Rescue teams combed through closets, looked under beds and even used drones with thermal imaging as they looked for pets...
South Bend officer rescues kitten from rush-hour traffic
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — A northern Indiana police officer turned cat-whisperer to help rescue a kitten after the frisky feline darted in front of...
When it comes to heated divorce, pets aren’t people too
NEW YORK — In the eyes of the law, pets are property when it comes to divorce, but new ways of working out custody...
Texas man accused of torturing kittens had worked as teacher
SUGAR LAND, Texas — A Texas man accused of torturing and killing four kittens had worked as a geometry teacher at a Houston-area high...
Trapped cat rescued from undercarriage of Isaac Yiadom’s car
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Firefighters in Florida were called to rescue a cat — not out of a tree, but from the undercarriage of...
Chicago cat fleeing fire survives 5-story jump, walks off
CHICAGO — A Chicago cat may now have eight lives after jumping out of a fifth-floor window Thursday afternoon to escape an apartment fire....
Lawmakers fighting like cats and dogs? Not over this bill
CONCORD. N.H. — Nine lives notwithstanding, killing a cat in a hit-and-run soon could become illegal in New Hampshire.
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Cat spent days in Indiana tree, is rescued after big plunge
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — A cat that spent days stuck in a tree in southwestern Indiana is back on solid ground after surviving a dramatic...
UK’s chief mouser celebrates 10 years on the prowl
LONDON — Larry the cat, a four-legged inhabitant of London’s 10 Downing St., is marking a decade as Britain’s mouse-catcher in chief on Monday.
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