Parrots In Love In Nanjing, China

This is probably stale news to some of you but I was looking for animal stories in China, specifically, in view of the on-going Summer Olympics in Beijing, China right now when I stumbled upon this story of a pair of parrot lovers in Nanjing, China.

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A pair of love birds is not rare but I really love this image. The colours are so vibrant and striking, don’t you think so?

Olympic Poodle

I came across this photograph on website of The Telegraph UK of a poodle with Olympic rings shaved into its coat in Beijing, China, to commemorate the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

The rings are even painted according to the official Olympic colours. However, the tail and ears have been sprayed with "clown" colours, which I think is just too cute.

Prince Chunk Finds New Castle

The fat cat that was found homeless and roaming the streets of New Jersey the same week that the dog abuse at Boulder Creek, Santa Cruz County, California hit the news and drew more than a few chuckles and oohing and ahhings has finally found a new foster home.

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This cat, named Powder, and dubbed Princess Chunk when he was first discovered, nicknamed because of his size, weighs approximately 44 pounds! Despite its weight, Powder has been given a clean bill of health.

Powder’s owner lost her home to foreclosure two weeks ago and just let the cat out as she could no longer afford to keep him. Isn’t she highly irresponsible?

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Following a whirlwind media tour, including a TV appearance on” Live with Regis & Kelly”, there were five hundred people, some from outside the United States, who wanted to adopt Powder but the Camden County Animal Shelter, who is responsible for Powder for the time being, has selected a couple with a teenage child to adopt him because they have prior experience with cats. The adoptive father is meanwhile building a little cat castle and will collect him next week.

What is sad is that while five hundred people offered to adopt Prince Chunk, almost none of them wanted to adopt any of the other abandoned cats at the Camden County Animal Shelter. It's as if most of them are only seeking publicity. I figure that if you could open your home to Powder, you could open your home to any other cat. Camden County Animal Shelter reported that they euthanized a thousand cats last year, a third of the cats in the Shelter.

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Dog Abuse At Boulder Creek, Santa Cruz County, California

There's one thing animal lovers like me will never understand. How could anyone have the heart to abuse animals? I tell you, I wanted to vomit when I read that there's this psychotic dog breeder, who has this ambition to breed a new breed of dogs, a new breed of "macho dogs" in his own words, most probably he wants a new breed to name after himself, who not only did not feed the dogs but killed them.

Photo credit: Shmuel Thaler/Santa Cruz Sentinel

I don't think I want to know how he tortured the dogs, and I don't even understand how killing the dogs would make a new breed of macho dogs because dead dogs are no dogs, whatever breed it is.

Photo credit: Shmuel Thaler/Santa Cruz Sentinel

Now the thing that most disgusts me is that there have been people making reports and pursuing this case since 2002! How many dogs have died since then? How many dogs have been bred and sold since then?

Robert Brunette
Photo credit: Santa Cruz County Animal Services

Animal lovers should never encourage dog breeders by buying dogs from puppy mills and dog breed farms but to adopt dogs, cats and other animals from animal shelters. Rescued animals make great pets also! I, along with all animal lovers, hope that this guy, Robert Brunette, gets his just desserts.

Source: Mercury News