Posted: August 9, 2008 2 a.m. EDT
Fat Cat Gets New Home, Diet
Prince Chunk, the beige-and-white cat from New Jersey who attracted public attention with his considerable girth, has landed on his paws, so to speak. The 10-year-old feline was placed with an adoptive family yesterday after blood work at the Camden County Animal Shelter came back normal, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
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Mewing Models Slink into NYC Fashion Show
The catwalk really was a catwalk Thursday. Show cats dressed in everything from an Elvis costume to a sequined satin dress strutted their stuff at New York's Algonquin Hotel. Thursday's show benefited an animal welfare group and honored Matilda, the Algonquin's resident cat, who just turned 13, The Associated Press reports.
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For Some Pet Owners, a Lifetime is Not Enough Time
Church of the Epiphany's columbarium is the final resting place for members' cremation ashes, but the first personalities to be interred could well be a Rottweiler and a cat. In July, the Episcopal congregation's vestry, or governing board, approved parishioners' requests to allow cremated pets to be interred in the same niche with their owners, The Virginia Pilot reports.
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