Top stories: Cat survives 2½-hour truck ride under fuselage; Gustav pet evacuations smoother than Katrina.
Posted: September 4, 2008 3 a.m. EDT
Cat Clings to Life Under Truck for 70 Miles
A clever cat in Arizona survived a 2½-hour truck journey by clinging onto a spare tire under the fuselage, Metro.co.uk reports.
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Gustav Pet Evacuations Show Katrina Lessons Learned
It’s not just the human evacuation that went much smoother this time. Thousands of pets accompanied the estimated 2 million people who fled inland from the U.S. Gulf Coast this past weekend as Hurricane Gustav hurtled toward the region, National Geographic News reports.
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Tails of the City: Fat Cats and Pudgy Pooches
When Pfizer launched Slentrol last January, the first (and currently only) FDA-approved “doggie diet” medication, I was incredulous. Was a diet pill really being touted as the magic bullet for man’s overweight best friends? The San Francisco Chronicle reports.
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