Archive for the ‘furry’ category
October 10, 2009
— A 27-year-old Canadian man was mauled early last Monday by a Siberian tiger after he and a friend broke into the Calgary Zoo and scaled an outer perimeter fence around the animal’s exhibit. While seriously injured, the man is expected to recover, and his friend was not hurt.
The two men stood between the outer fence that they scaled and an inner cage where the tiger, Vitali (pictured) was housed. Once the two-year-old tiger was startled, he probably hooked the one man with a claw, dragged his arm in, and continued to attack, officials said.
The tiger was trying to protect itself, officials added, and had never previously attacked any people. Vitali will remain in his current environment, not being responsible for human stupidity…
Categories: animal oddities, animals, furry, stupid, things humans do
Tags: tiger mauling, Vitali the tiger
Comments: 2 Comments
October 9, 2009
— In Sacramento, California animal control officers seized 77 cats from a home in one of the worst animal hoarding cases seen in that county. Cat cages were stacked floor to ceiling with animals roaming everywhere and feces caked around the home…the homeowners say that they were taking good care of the cats…right!
The house in Sacramento has been condemned, and police say that they’ll seek felony animal cruelty charges against the couple. A maximum of seven cats is allowed in that area.
Animal hoarding may be considered a form of Obsessive-Compulsive disorder…and I won’t make a comment about excessive petting…
Categories: animals, anomalies, deplorable practices, furry, things humans do
Tags: animal hoarding, excessive pets
Comments: 4 Comments
October 8, 2009
– – Warning: Some Adult Topic Matter. The Supreme Court has been asked to rule on a law with furry implications which involves video depictions of animal cruelty. The disputed statute was used to prosecute a Virginia man who sold videos of pit bull fights.
The law originally was created in 1999 due to rightful congressional worries over “crush” videos, which, I’m horrified to say, depict women pounding high heels into small animals to appeal to an extremely sick and sadistic sexual kink. Civil liberty groups say that the statute is overly broad and could leave to prosecutors’ discretion whether to go after films that show hunting and bullfighting; I’ve found such videos objectionable as well, but it boils down to what is considered animal cruelty, and how broadly one defines it.
The justices have indicated that Congress went too far in its attempt to protect animals from abuse…note that Justice Scalia is an avid hunter. I regret that civil liberties and animal rights groups have found themselves at odds over this one, a case which may have unfortunate and far-reaching implications, and may be construed as a step backwards…
Categories: animal rights, animals, deplorable practices, furry, furry causes
Tags: animal cruelty videos, Supreme Court animal case
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October 1, 2009
– – Destination Truth in a recent new episode featured Chernobyl but had a secondary story on about the Sal’awa, described by highly emotional eyewitnesses as a canine monster about the size of a dog but with hind legs that are somewhat longer than the front legs, a large muzzle that resembles that of a hyena, and imposing sharp teeth.
Reports of the Sal’awa first appeared in Cairo, Egypt in the 1960’s and 1970’s, with a resurgence of sightings then beginning in 1996. In 2008 in Aswan, the creature supposedly attacked a 3-year-old baby girl and a 57-year-old man, who died after reaching the hospital.
The Destination Truth team interviewed a number of eyewitnesses, including a mother who claimed the creature would have killed her child had she not beaten it off. The investigators also tracked an unknown creature through a sugar cane field, complete with bouncing camera images and spooky green- or yellow-tinged lighting, popular since The Blair Witch Project. While some impressive growls were recorded, and a footprint was seen and copied that was later identified as canine, the only image recorded was that of…an Egyptian fox!–Yuppers, my kind is everywhere!
While even the Destination Truth people downplayed the likelihood of a Sal’awa existing, the Egyptian people who have reported it may have been responding to a large feral dog or a hybrid of some kind…
Categories: animals, cryptozoology, furry, television, unexplained, unidentified
Tags: Destination Truth, Sal'awa
Comments: 2 Comments
September 29, 2009
— Now this is just plain wrong! A cat dubbed “Sticky” was wrapped in duct tape head to tail and dumped in a paper bag in a neighbor’s yard for 12 hours. The 19-year-old Philadelphia man who did this was described as having, “a lot of issues.” He faces animal cruelty charges, a fine, and jail time.
Other that being dehydrated, Sticky the cat survived his ordeal. He was sedated to have the duct tape removed.
‘Scuse me now, but I’ve got a human to wrap in duct tape…for if there are no human laws to fit the crime, there is always a higher law which can (holds up a large roll of gray duct tape, laughs darkly, and exits…)
Categories: animal rights, animals, deplorable practices, furry, things humans do
Tags: cat wrapped in duct tape, Sticky the cat
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September 26, 2009
– -This picture is a mild example of dog fighting; most are bloody and sickening.–How are dog fighters adapting to increasing law enforcement against their despicable activities?–By going mobile, in a practice called “trunking”…
…in “trunking,” large cars with spacious trunks are used to stage dog fights while loud music is played to muffle the sounds of the brutality. The vehicle may actually be kept moving while the fighting transpires, then stop. Whichever dog is still alive at that point is the winner, with the dead loser simply tossed to the side of the road. As the entire operation is mobile, it’s difficult for law enforcement to target it and close in.
Animal control officers in Paterson, New Jersey are stepping up enforcement and warning the public about the practice, with arrests having occurred in other states. The Humane Society is offering a $5,000 reward for information on anyone participating in trunking…
Categories: animal occurrences, animal rights, animals, deplorable practices, furry, things humans do
Tags: dog fighting, trunking
Comments: 3 Comments
September 17, 2009
– -The end is near!– -At least that’s what the doomsday predictions from Nostradamus, the Book of Revelation, the Mayan “long count” calendar and many others would have us believe. A new show on The History Channel, Nostradamus Effect, examines end-of-time predictions from cultures across the globe, questioning whether they constitute inspired visions or crackpot conspiracy theories.
Now Michel de Nostradamus was a 16th century French physician and astrologer whose name is synonymous with apocalyptic visions of the near and distant future…kinda the gold standard for that type of thing. But we furries have our future-predicting psychic seers, too!
One such is Nostradalmatian, a canine seer seen in the comic strip Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley.- -Don’t you believe in Nostradalmatian’s uncanny powers?!–Oh, he knew that you were going to say that!!!
Categories: anthropomorphic, Brilliant but twisted, comics, furry, furry heroes, psychic
Tags: Nostradalmatian, Nostradamus Effect
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September 14, 2009
-“Inside every man there are two people–one good, one beast.”
Did ‘Ya Catch This One Department: Jack Nicholson has done horror flicks, including Little Shop of Horrors and The Shining (“– -Here’s Johnny!“). Nicholson is such an awesome actor that even his stranger and less memorable performances are worth watching, and Wolf is no exception. In the vintage 1994 flick, Nicholson plays a publishing executive whose life begins to change after he’s bitten by a wolf. First his mood changes, then his sense of hearing and smell go into overdrive; then there’s the problem of Nicholson’s character leaping around in the neighborhood at night killing deer and other animals with his teeth (…don’t you hate it when that happens?).
While we’ve seen better special effects and aspects of the performances seem curiously detached, the psychological aspects of Nicholson’s transformation make this movie a kick, with his character finding himself more energized and more competitive than ever, plus possessed of amazingly heightened senses; ” ’tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.” While rejected by Nicholson’s usual fans for its horror content as well as by some horror fans, Wolf is thoughtful horror that has more brains than blood…this Wolf, while flawed, is no dog!
Categories: animals, anthropomorphic, cool things, furry, movies
Tags: furry flicks, Jack Nicholson's "Wolf", transformation
Comments: 2 Comments
September 5, 2009
— No, not the Mercury Cougar…we’re talkin’ cougars as in mountain lions, pumas, panthers, and catamounts. The big cats more commonly attack pets and livestock than people, but a 5-year-old boy was mauled in the Northeast corner of Washington state last Wednesday, and in the past year other attacks have been reported in a few Western states, including Washington and Wyoming. In June of 2008, a cougar killed a 55-year-old man in New Mexico.
Associated Press reports that Seattle’s largest park, Discovery Park, is currently off limits as state wildlife agents try to trap a cougar in or near Discovery Park. The last time that a cougar was seen in Discovery Park was 1981. It was dubbed “D.B. Cougar” after the elusive hijacker, D.B. Cooper!
This past Friday morning, a man in that area said that he saw a cougar (no, not the Mercury!) in his driveway as he went to pick up his newspaper. So we’ve got foxes in Detroit, leopards in upstate New York, and cougars in Seattle…It’s a start, right?
Categories: animal occurrences, animals, environmental, furry, unexplained
Tags: cougars in Seattle, mountain lion attacks
Comments: 4 Comments
September 3, 2009
— What’s black, wrinkly, Texan, and bald all over?–Chupacabra, according to some! A Texas taxidermist near Rosenberg has had the creature in his possession for a couple of months, finding it dead in a barn and keeping it in a freezer until last weekend (remind me not to eat there)! The creature was likely poisoned by bait placed in the barn to catch an unidentified animal.
Found near Blanco, Texas, the creature weighs about 35 pounds, and has somewhat long fangs, like those of a coyote. The legs like the teeth are abnormally long. The face is fox- or coyote-like, and the emaciated body is likely that of a young adult coyote or dog with severe mange, making it hairless. The face is judged too long and pointy to be a dog, although some dogs are fox-like in their appearance. Most likely, it’s a freak of nature (like some of my best friends).
Plans are to preserve the animal and then donate it to a local museum, “so it can be enjoyed by others.”–What could be more appropriate?!
Categories: animal oddities, animals, anomalies, cool things, cryptozoology, furry, rare animal, unexplained, unidentified
Tags: chupacabra, new chupacabra claims
Comments: 4 Comments
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