Posted: Jan. 10, 2009, 3 a.m. EST
Some Say Carcass May Be Legendary Cat
Some locals have speculated that an unidentified animal carcass that washed up on an English beach may have been the legendary Beast of Exmoor. Police said two officers recovered the carcass after somebody reported a dead animal "the size of a calf with canine teeth" had washed up on a Croyde beach, The Daily Mail reported Thursday, United Press International reports.
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Cat Laps Up New Role on Weather Forecast
A cat wandered onto the set of a live weather forecast by Germany’s leading meteorologist Joerg Kachelmann and waved its tail in front of the camera as it rubbed up against his leg. Kachelmann had just started his two-minute forecast after the news Tuesday when the cat appeared. Without missing a beat, he scooped Lupin up and finished his forecast while the cat pointed a paw at the weather map, Reuters reports.
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Woman, 81, Gets 6 Months for Cat Abuse
The judge said he was reluctant to send an octogenarian to jail. But Howard County Circuit Judge J. Thomas Nissel did just that Thursday, sentencing 81-year-old Ayten Icgoren to six months behind bars for mistreating dozens of cats in the Columbia, Md., townhouse where she lived with her daughter, the Baltimore Sun reports.
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