| May 28, 2007 | - In the desert of southern Israel a man wrestled and pinned down a leopard after it broke into his bedroom.
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AP via CBS News
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| November 17, 2006 | - It was reported that a Brazilian
cat named Mimi had mated with a dog and birthed hybrid kitten-pups.
| Source:
Reuters
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| June 20, 2006 | - A six-toed cat named Lewis was placed under house arrest in Fairfield, Connecticut.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| February 28, 2006 | - A cat died of bird flu in Germany.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| February 19, 2006 | - Toxoplasma parasites, found in cat
feces, were causing deadly brain disease in U.S. otters.
| Source:
BBC News
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| March 23, 2005 | - Senator Bill Frist--a doctor who as a Harvard
medical student adopted pound cats as pets, then killed them to practice his surgical technique--diagnosed Terri Schiavo from afar, suggesting that her condition could improve.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 19, 2003 | - The House of Representatives voted to ban keeping lions, tigers, and other "big cats" as pets.
| Source:
Agence France-Presse
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| July 7, 2003 | -
Fishermen in Italy were using live kittens to catch giant sheat fish in the Po River.
| Source:
Independent
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| May 11, 2003 | - Federal authorities said that they will permit passengers to take cats, dogs, and other animals, including monkeys, on airplanes for emotional support but not snakes, rodents, or spiders.
| Source:
Reuters
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| October 22, 2002 | -
In South Africa a drug dealer was accused of cutting up a woman, boiling her, and feeding her to lions.
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| August 13, 2002 | -
A new study found that cats are dying of cancer caused by secondhand smoke.
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| August 6, 2002 | -
The scientist who invented clumping cat litter and liquid paper died.
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| July 30, 2002 | -
A pet-shop employee in Pennsylvania stomped a kitten to death in front of the children who were waiting to buy it.
The man, who was sentenced to 100 hours of service to the community, claimed the kitten was biting him.
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| July 23, 2002 | -
Meow Mix, the cat-food company, was working on a television show for cats, featuring “squirrels, bouncing balls, birds, and all the things cats love to watch.”
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| June 18, 2002 | -
Members of the British House of Commons filed a petition for a parliamentary cat to kill the mice that infest their building.
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| February 5, 2002 | -
Four hundred Cambodians lost their homes after a fire caused by a roasting cat destroyed 62 houses.
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| January 1, 2002 | -
Marisa Tomei, the actress, insisted that her cat was psychic.
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| September 25, 2001 | - Newly released CIA documents revealed that the agency once trained cats to operate as spies equipped with listening devices. The first such spy cat was run over by a taxi.
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| September 4, 2001 | - The man who discovered Morris the Cat died.
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| July 10, 2001 | - Transgenic Pets of Syracuse, New York, announced that it planned to engineer a cat that will no longer cause allergies in humans.
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| January 9, 2001 | -
Taiwan banned the eating of dogs and cats.
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