IT’S Siegfried and Roy - but better…
Posted: 7th, November 2008 | In: Anorak Pets, Twitterings | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
IT’S A shrimp. And it’s jogging. It is the jogging shrimp:
Once more with feeling:
Posted: 3rd, November 2008 | In: Anorak Pets, Strange But True, Terrible TV | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
IN Australia:
WILD wallabies are terrorising a Townsville retirement village, knocking over residents and defecating on lawns and patios.
Residents at Carlyle Gardens are said to be too afraid to leave their homes when the 100-strong mob runs amok in the early mornings and late afternoons.
Australians…
Posted: 30th, October 2008 | In: Anorak Pets, Strange But True | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
POOH horse…
Gracie the horse, of Pullman, west Virginia, was cut free from the tree….
Posted: 21st, October 2008 | In: Anorak Pets, Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (12) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
10 Ways Yo Kill Your Pet And Get Away With It
WANT to know how to kill your pet? A survey by a pet insurance company says:
PlayStations and iPods have emerged as greater threats to the nation’s pets than traditional dangers found in the home such as tumble driers, washing machines and electric cables.
Which might mean that if you own an iPod, PlayStation or some other electronic device, your premiums might be higher. What are the odds on an insurance company discovering that, eh?
The Guardian notes:
Posted: 20th, October 2008 | In: Anorak Pets, Strange But True | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Police Log: Man Loses It With Tail Gating Fox
POLICE Log: Anorak’s Look At Crime In The News…
Man Tail Gates Fox
A Tennessee man named Tommy Fox crashed his car while contending with an attack from a real fox whose tail he intended to cut off, authorities say.
Horse power. Tally ho!
After the Dover man struck a red fox that had dashed in front of his sports utility vehicle last week, he allegedly retrieved the seemingly dead animal from the roadway with plans to cut off its tail for a souvenir, a state wildlife official told Gannett Tennessee.
Posted: 7th, October 2008 | In: Anorak In New York, Anorak Pets, Police Log, Strange But True | Comments (13) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
POLICE Log: Anorak’s Look At Crime In The News…
CAN dog poo be a source of fuel? Can you turn over your garden to crops with the aid of poodle fertiliser?
In Lincolnshire, Patricia Hazelwood has been fiend for refusing to clean up her dog’s poo – dog poo that her dog unloaded in her garden.
Posted: 6th, October 2008 | In: Anorak Pets, Police Log, Strange But True | Comments (20) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Melbourne Hospital Admits Cat And Dog Cancer Patients
IN Australia, the people and the animals are as one:
A MAJOR Melbourne hospital has been treating pet animals as private cancer patients in secret after-hours appointments. The Alfred struck a deal with at least one vet to treat cats and dogs with its multi-million-dollar radiation therapy machines in 2001.
So reports the Herald Sun. The paw loves…
Posted: 5th, October 2008 | In: Anorak Pets, Strange But True | Comments (10) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Crocodile Shoe: British Tourists Eaten In Australia
ARTHUR Booker – “Tragic Arthur Booker” – is in the Australian outback on holiday. His wife Doris is sleeping.
He wakes early to check his crab pots on the bank of the Endeavour River.
He does not return. Doris awakens and finds the crab pot rope snapped, large crocodile slidemarks and the couple’s new video camera, Arthur’s watch and a single shoe.
Is this a John Stonehouse moment, we wonder?
Posted: 1st, October 2008 | In: Anorak Pets, Strange But True, Tabloids | Comments (19) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Man Punches Shark To Save Pet Dog
SHARKS are pets too:
Jake was on his daily swim in Islamorada, Florida when a shark tried to gobble him up. Jake’s owner, Greg LeNoir, watched in horror as the 5 ft shark wrapped it’s jaws around the 14 lb pooch. LeNoir dove in after jake, punching the shark. The shark let go of Jake, and the dog resurfaced and hightailed it back to shore.
Hightailed? What tail..?
Posted: 30th, September 2008 | In: Anorak Pets, Strange But True, Twitterings | Comments (7) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Australian Pig That Thinks It’s An Elephant
“IT’S a beautiful male pig but he’s just so big and so pushy,” Caroline Hayes tells the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
“The rangers came out to my house yesterday with a dog cage and this pig is that big, it’s like trying to put an elephant in a dog cage.”
Is it? You make you own entertainment in rural Australia. Go on:
Posted: 24th, September 2008 | In: Anorak Pets, Strange But True | Comments (6) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Case Of The Labour Activist, A Dog And The Severed Finger
“WHEN I came in there was the finger lying on the floor, cleanly sliced off.
“I wrapped it up in a food bag and put it in the freezer and waited for the owner to come back and collect it, so he could have it stitched on – but he never came back.
“I contacted the police because at the end of the day I have got somebody’s finger in my freezer. Later I got a call from them and they said they had found the owner, Brian Hunter.”
There’s more:
Posted: 24th, September 2008 | In: Anorak Pets, Police Log, Strange But True | Comments (7) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
INVISIBLE cows, most likely from continental Europe, have invaded… Is global warming to blame?
Posted: 19th, September 2008 | In: Anorak Pets, Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (7) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Her Pussy Is Stuck Down The Toilet
WOMAN’S pussy gets stuck down the toilet…
Posted: 18th, September 2008 | In: Anorak In New York, Anorak Pets, Terrible TV, Twitterings | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Chinese Chicken-Foot Duck Scared Of Water
FU Haiwen has a duck. Or is it a chicken? Dicken and owner live in Huangjin village, Xicheng town.
“It never went with the other ducks to swim in the river,” says Haiwen.
Haiwen’s duck has chicken feet.
If this Dicken can be persuaded to eat some vine leaves and sleep on a bed of glutionous rice, it might be a walking Dim Sum platter…
Posted: 17th, September 2008 | In: Anorak Pets, Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (6) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Vote Sarah Palin And Your Pet Dies
THE story so far: Bullwinkle J. Moose is dead. He was killed by Sarah Palin, then deep froxen and chopped, sliced and roasted on bed of dried rabbit.
Rocket “Rocky” J. Squirrel lives in Washington. Can he escape.It up to YOU, voters of America.
Vote Palin and Rocky dies. And when he is dead, what then?
Posted: 15th, September 2008 | In: Anorak Pets, Photojournalism, Politicians, Race For The White House, Sarah Palin | Comments (7) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Road Hog: Pig Loving German Vegetarian Crashes Into Pig Truck
WHEN pigs attack vegetarians. When vegetarians attack pigs. Consider the evidence. To Germany:
The
sight of a truckload of pigs headed for the sausage factory proved too much to bear for a German vegetarian woman who lost control of her vehicle as a result. Unfortunately, she crashed into another truck carrying pigs.
A road hog…
Posted: 14th, September 2008 | In: Anorak Pets, Police Log, Strange But True | Comments (8) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Anorak Pets: Super Bichon Frise Saves Man
IS the Bichon Frise the dog of herioc deed, a Superdog trapped inside an ambulatory puffball skirt?
To New York, where Lexi is taking a Linda Deutsch for walk. But Super Bichon will not get on the elevator. Has it heard the sad news of its cousin in Brighton? For shame!
But hark, the New York Daily News says Lexi is making towards Apartment 4-L. Deutsch follows, obediently. She hears faint cries for help coming from inside the apartment.
Posted: 13th, September 2008 | In: Anorak In New York, Anorak Pets, Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
IT’S raining frogs in Floraida. Pray for frogs.
Standing water everywhere and hot weather create the perfect situation to incubate eggs. Central Florida is being invaded, not by mosquitoes, but by frogs.
The tiny frogs are too daunting — until you multiple them by about 1 million.
“Last night there was 11 big ones on my house, jumping and hitting me in the head and stuff like that,” Cindy Trumpolt said.
“I told them we should get on our knees and pray, because I think it is a plague. I do,” one resident said.
Pray. For locusts…
Posted: 13th, September 2008 | In: Anorak In New York, Anorak Pets, Strange But True, Twitterings | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Fireman Gives Mouth-To-Mouth To Roasted Cat
WHAT does a roasted cat taste like? A fireman brings one to life:
Sweating and breathing heavily from fighting the fire, Mr. Machado was still making faces and picking fur from his mouth when he told a reporter there wasn’t much hesitation involved. He had rescued the cat from a burning, second-floor apartment on Summer Street “and it really needed air and it couldn’t wait,” he said.
Posted: 11th, September 2008 | In: Anorak In New York, Anorak Pets, Police Log, Strange But True | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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