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Obese kookaburra given personal trainer By The Telegraph UK
Published: June 2, 2010 The native Australian bird got into trouble with its weight when residents at a Sydney park began feeding her meat from the barbecues.
The porky kookaburra weighed in at 1.2 pounds, nearly 40 per cent heavier than a normal adult bird, rendering it so unfit that it couldn't fly.
"Out in the wild she'd eat a whole small animal such as a mouse or skink (lizard), but butcher's sausages are just too much of a good thing"
Dog travels 15 miles home across motorway and moorland By Matthew Moore
Published: 9:00PM BST 31 May 2010
A lost dog was reunited with its owners after a marathon 31-hour trek that took the mongrel across the M1, four major A roads and miles of treacherous moorland. In a story reminiscent of 1940s film Lassie Come Home, a family who had given up their whippet-terrier cross Jack for dead looked outside to find him asleep on their doorstep.
Kitten survives wash and spin in a washing machine
Reuters Sydney, Australia - A Persian kitten gave her owners the shock of their lives when she emerged from the washing machine, dizzy and bedraggled after surviving a full cycle."
Man marries pillow
Tom Phillips - 4th May, 2010 True love can take many forms. In this case, it has taken the form of a Korean man falling in love with, and eventually marrying, a large pillow with a picture of a woman on it.
Ram-bo
This hapless sheep has become a real life 'ram-bo' after inadvertently abseiling down a hill when its horn became snagged on an electricity wire.
The unfortunate sheep was spotted bleating for help more than 15 feet above the ground next to an telegraph pole.
Amazed onlookers watched the ram descend from a grazing pasture - apparently accidentally - while dangling from a live wire.
The hypnotherapist cat BBC
The regulation of hypnotherapists in the UK is so lax that even a cat can become accredited, the BBC has found.
Chris Jackson, presenter of Inside Out in the North East and Cumbria, registered pet George with three industry bodies.
Each one accepted a certificate from the non-existent Society of Certified Advanced Mind Therapists as proof of George's credentials.
Mystery rodent scurries by as Obama lauds Wall Street vote
WASHINGTON (AP) In the midst of his battle with the titans of Wall Street, President Obama was nearly upstaged by a rodent.
Obama had just begun a Rose Garden statement lauding the end of a Senate filibuster on his financial overhaul when some kind of rodent dashed out of the bushes to his right, just outside the Oval Office.
Poll: 1 in 3 women say pets listen better than husbands
LOS ANGELES (AP) A third of pet-owning married women in the U.S. said their pets are better listeners than their husbands, according to an Associated Press-Petside.com poll released Wednesday.
Eighteen percent of pet-owning married men said their pets are better listeners than their wives.
