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Good Samaritan is helping traveling cat make trip home
The tabby's trek took him from Albuquerque to Chicago during the eight
months he was missing.
Chicago — No one knows how a tabby cat named Charles traveled the
1,100-plus miles from his New Mexico home to Chicago, but he's set for a
complimentary flight home on American Airlines in a carrier donated by
an Albuquerque business. Charles disappeared about eight months ago
while his owner was out of town and a friend was caring for him. "Oh, I
was crushed. And I found out while I was away volunteering with Habitat
for Humanity, and I was so upset because I was in New Orleans so there
was nothing I could do," said Robin Alex of Albuquerque.
Then last week, Alex received a call telling her Chicago Animal Care and
Control had picked up her wandering cat as a stray. Staffers reached out
to Alex after finding that Charles had a tracking microchip embedded
between his shoulder blades, said the agency's executive director,
Cherie Travis. But Alex said she could not afford the round-trip ticket
to Chicago to bring Charles home, so she was afraid he might be euthanized.
Enter fellow Albuquerque resident Lucien Sims. Sims said he has a tabby
cat who strongly resembles Charles, and was moved when his mother sent
him an online story about Alex and her pet. Sims was on his way to
Chicago on Thursday for a wedding, so he said he would go to the
shelter, pick up Charles and bring him back to New Mexico. Sims has
made all the arrangements for Charles' return, including getting a
company to donate a cat carrier and American Airlines to waive the cat's
travel fee. Travis said Charles was ready for his next adventure.
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They crossed a Malamute and a Pointer. The new breed is a Moot Point,
owned by....oh, well, it doesn't really matter. (from Walker)
I'm a pig again today !!!!
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Mom's snickering and making oink noises at me!
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A woman is walking in the park when she sees a man playing chess with
his cat. She says to the man "I can't believe what I m seeing, a cat
that plays chess, what a clever animal!!" The man replied "Nah lady this
cats not clever at all I m beating it 6 games to 1? (by Suzzie)
Only $300 to go !!!!
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Jaguars Are Lured By the Smell of Calvin Klein Cologne
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters Life!) – Biologists tracking jaguars in the
Guatemalan jungle might smell nice but it's all in the name of science,
with researchers finding the Calvin Klein cologne Obsession for Men
attracts big cats.
Biologists Rony Garcia and Jose Moreira from the Wildlife Conservation
Society's (WCS) Jaguar Conservation Program say they use hidden cameras
as a primary source for observing and tracking jaguars in Guatemala's
Maya Biosphere Reserve.
But they also rely on Obsession for Men, a cologne known for its complex
scent, to help lure then research and hopefully ultimately preserve
jaguars in the Central American country.
"The method we are using to study the jaguars here in Guatemala is a
non-invasive method which is based on photographing the individuals by
using camera traps," Moreira told Reuters Television.
"It has been very useful using Obsession (for Men) to get the jaguars in
front of these camera traps ... and that allows us to estimate with
greater confidence the genders and the numbers that live in each studied
site."
The discovery that Obsession for Men acted as a magnet for jaguars was
the result of an experiment by the WCS's Bronx Zoo in New York.
The WCS was looking for ways to get cheetahs in front of camera traps,
and, after several years of testing with different fragrances, found
spraying the musky Obsession For Men near the heat-and-motion-sensitive
cameras drew the cats for longer than other scents.
They also tried out about 23 other fragrances but Obsession for Men kept
the cats' attention for longest with Nina Ricci's L'Air du Temps coming
second.
The practice made its way down to Guatemala, where Garcia and Moreira
said they have been recording similar success in the wild since 2007,
allowing them to track jaguars and even record their mating rituals.
Garcia said the results will be invaluable to conservation efforts.
"These camera traps help us to identify how many jaguars are living in
this area ... (and) helps us to have control over the population and
lets us say to the government, to the public, that Laguna del Tigre
still deserves conservation," he said.
The WCS said it tentatively plans to expand the use of the cologne in
programs in Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador in coming years.
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Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what
we get, but we make a life by what we give. ---Norman MacEwan
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Who's HERO are YOU going to be today?
Love, Vincent
PS If you don't want your Daily Good New, just let me know! A couple of
you have said you only want Hairballs with out the Good News!! That's
ok! Just tell me. I'm here to make you happy, just tell me how! If
Good New don't make you happy - I could always start Bad News, but, as
you hoomans say, why reinvent the wheel - that's what you've got tv and
newspapers for !!!!!
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