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Here’s a must-have for every cuteologist’s website collection: The Kitten Covers , classic album covers as they were always meant to be seen — with kittens.

As all cat-lovers know, every moggy has moments when they seem almost human in their behaviour. Now, a new internet craze celebrates the feline friends who like to sit back and relax in style. A host of websites, viral emails and blogs have been circulating pictures of ‘cats that sit like humans’ — and they’ve even been featured on TV. Here we give you the best of the kitty couch potatoes.

My cat is so fat...The Tubby Tabby: Keechi ( keech-eye ) named for a place I used to hunt... Weighs in at 22lbs. Female Eats: anything she can Hobbies: sleeping, eating anything she can, sleeping, scaring large dogs, freaking out large dogs and other cats, sleeping on humans 'till their legs go numb...

Saturday Night Doggy AND Kitty Thread...Please go to YouTube, (if you haven't already), find your favorite animal vid....and post it! Tonight is all about watching fun, informative, goofy.....you get it.....videos of the critters we love so very much.Have fun!

Tonight I want to hear of your favorite Animal Rescue Organization. Where would YOU go to if you were to adopt a dog and give it it's forever home? Please share your stories about your rescue dogs and the folks who rescued them for you.The one I support and would get another dog if circumstances warranted ... is German Shepherd of Orange County. Their site is HERE!

In Afghanistan, in the midst of war, many animals are lost and separated from their family. Many are found later by troops from the US, UK and Canada. Soldiers rescue these animals and get help from rescue groups that help them send these animals out of the country and to a forever loving home that they deserve.

BOSTON -- The beating death of a cat in front of shocked children prompted protests Sunday in Worcester. A group of people gathered in front of the city police department, demanding police put Tom Foley behind bars. Foley admittedly beat a cat named Lily to death in front of several children on Friday. The owner, Lisa Tuttle, said her cat Lily had just given birth to a litter of kittens and may have been feeling territorial when she charged Foley's dog and scratched Foley several days earlier on Dupuis Avenue. "I just came out. I saw the cat in a...

Swiping playfully at the camera, it's hard to imagine she could be a danger to anything - except, perhaps, her favourite toy mouse. But to postmen, Illy the kitten might as well be a snarling rottweiler. They say that the six-month-old moggie once jumped up at the letterbox and delivered a painful scratch to a postwoman's hand. So fearful are they of a repeat performance that they have sent a strongly worded letter to Illy's owners - warning them to discipline her or face a delivery ban.

Don’t expect a Susan Boyle world tour anytime soon. Unless her beloved cat, Pebbles, is the opening act. According to the Daily Mirror, Susan Boyle did not appear in another "Britain’s Got Talent" concert last night after a hysterical screaming fit over her MIA kitty, Pebbles. Susan stood on the balcony of her eighth-floor hotel room overlooking the hotel atrium and repeatedly bawled: “Where’s my cat?” She was whisked out of the Liverpool hotel via a fire escape. It gets worse... One witness said: “She kept shouting, ‘I want my cat! I need my cat!’ I think people felt sorry...

Dear Freeper cat owners, I'm having a problem with Norman the cat (see my homepage for a photo). He will not use the litterbox, and instead pees on my bedroom carpet. I have two cats and three litterboxes, which I scoop daily. I've been using the same type of litter for a long time. He has adequate facilities, he just won't use them. Does anyone have any advice for me in this situation? I'm thinking of ripping up the carpet and putting down a hard surface floor. Please don't tell me to kill or get rid or Norman, as that...

Garfield From science fiction or real life, you may be familiar with the manipulative powers of parasites. Invasive fungus that provokes ants to climb atop plants before dying, where it can continue growing. Rabies causes dogs to salivate and become aggressive, increasing the chance that they'll bite and spread the disease. And Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite that actually draws rats to their predators -- cats. Manipulation is afoot here, too. Cats are the definitive hosts of this parasite, which can inhabit their brains after they kill a rat. From there, the parasite can spread to other mammals, including humans.

Why kill a cat over scratches on car? ONE of the common conflicts between humans and cats in an increasingly dense urban setting arises from our increasing attachment to material things. The more expensive the item, the stronger the attachment. The stronger the attachment, the more intense is emotional suffering from losing them. A highly educated woman, who recently acquired a brand new car that cost "40 grand" was so worried about possible scratches from the few cats in the carpark that she complained to the Cat Welfare Society and the town council for the removal of the cats. As...

Time for our close-up: The astonishing blue-eyed gaze of the twin newborn panther cubs By MAIL FOREIGN SERVICE 09th June 2009 These are the pictures that melted the hearts of even the most hardened news photographers. Meet Larisa and Sipura, the newborn panther twins that were introduced to the world in Berlin earlier today. Showtime: [Pic in URL] The eyes of one of the panther cubs appears to match the green of the grass around her as she stares unflinchingly at the camera

You haven't seen angry until you've seen a cat with his head under a faucet. If there's anything the stereotypically haughty house pets despise it's being wet. "I think it's the closest you can see in the animal world to someone giving you the finger," said veterinarian Marty Becker, co-author of "Why Do Cats Always Land on Their Feet?" "That look is unique in the animal world of total disgust. ... It's just a classic." And yet that look is taking the Internet by storm. As feline photo blogs continue to draw millions of visitors each month, the wet cat...

As of yesterday, freeper martin_fierro has become the newest minion of the Kitteh Konspiracy. Here are his case officers, Emily (L.) and Laurencia:I'll let martin tell you about them when he has the time, so for the moment I'll just say...

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Officials To Assess Situation The stuck bear has kept homeowners living in the 1900 block of Votaw Road on edge Friday. "(The bear) was out looking for a place to live and got startled and took refuge in the tree," Florida Fish and Wildlife worker Tom Shupe said. Local 6 showed video of homeowners gathering around the home to see the animal hanging onto a branch. Homeowners said kittens chased the bear before it became stuck. "(The kittens) had the bear just cornered at the fence and it saw the tree and just ran up the tree and has been...