Posted: June 17, 2009, 3 a.m. EDT
Kitten Found in Streetside Mailbox
A letter carrier made an extraordinary discovery inside a Hyde Park mailbox. But it wasn't an envelope, package, or anything one might expect to find inside a streetside mailbox. It was an 8-week-old kitten, the Boston Globe reports.
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Twin Panther Cubs Are German Zoo's Latest Attraction
Meet Berlin's latest tourist attraction: 6-week-old black panther twins Larisa and Sipura. Berlin's Tierpark Zoo presented the pair, both female, to the media and even hardened news photographers cracked a smile when the cubs stumbled through the grass, ABC News reports.
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Great Expectations
Brent Staples says that he has never owned a cat and probably never will. But nonetheless he been living with six or seven of them in the years since he and his wife renovated their Brooklyn garden and added a reflecting pool, where felines come to lounge and drink, he writes in The New York Times.
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