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Baby robin cuddles up with SW Michigan cats
AP via Newsvine.com ^ | Mon Jun 18, 2012

Posted on 06/19/2012 9:25:34 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows

A baby robin is spending some quality time with some friendly cats in southwestern Michigan.

MLive.com reports Karin Caston's cats have accepted the bird, named Peeps, since she found it about two weeks ago in her yard in Allegan County's Otsego Township, 35 miles south of Grand Rapids.

The bird lives in a cage, but spends time nestled in the fur of two of Caston's cats or perched on their backs. A third cat lets the bird walk around it.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsvine.com ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: kittyping
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1 posted on 06/19/2012 9:25:41 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
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2 posted on 06/19/2012 9:28:33 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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Until the kitten gets hungry.


3 posted on 06/19/2012 9:34:08 PM PDT by doc1019 (Voting for the better of two evils is still voting for evil.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

A delightful sight sorely needed given the times we live in.

Thank you.


4 posted on 06/19/2012 9:35:07 PM PDT by RitaOK (NO ROMNEY, NO COMPROMISE. NO WAY. NO HOW. NOT NOW. NOT EVER.)
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My pleasure.


5 posted on 06/19/2012 9:39:36 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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What the.............? I'd like to know the secret behind this. My Dachshunds won't even give my wife's cats a break. They think they're snack food.

"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920


6 posted on 06/19/2012 9:40:08 PM PDT by Viking2002
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7 posted on 06/19/2012 9:41:18 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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LOL!


8 posted on 06/19/2012 9:43:26 PM PDT by doc1019 (Voting for the better of two evils is still voting for evil.)
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9 posted on 06/19/2012 9:43:33 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: doc1019

It’s all in the marketing.


10 posted on 06/19/2012 9:45:47 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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11 posted on 06/19/2012 9:49:06 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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Shame that this bird will be jacked by another cat when the time comes.


12 posted on 06/19/2012 9:53:18 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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If the kind lady doesn’t get “jacked” first by the Michigan State wildlife authorities SWAT Team for keeping a wild bird in her home...


13 posted on 06/19/2012 9:58:47 PM PDT by elteemike (Light travels faster than sound...That's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak!)
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hey, little jeremiah, come get yourself on the Slings and Arrows pussy-cat pinglist.

14 posted on 06/19/2012 9:58:53 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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Thanks. You're a lot of help.

"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920


15 posted on 06/19/2012 10:03:45 PM PDT by Viking2002
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‘It’s called the catbird’s seat, eh wot?’


16 posted on 06/19/2012 10:21:36 PM PDT by Ken H (v)
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17 posted on 06/19/2012 10:34:58 PM PDT by Bratch
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Me-ouch!
18 posted on 06/19/2012 11:18:02 PM PDT by itssme
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Thanks!


20 posted on 06/20/2012 12:16:50 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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