Sick of voting for rats? Elect a cat: Four-legged Morris runs for mayor in Mexico (Photo: Stringer / Mexico / Reuters) This mayoral hopeful in Mexico promises to eat, sleep most of the day and donate his leftover litter to fill potholes. Morris, a black-and-white kitten with orange eyes, is running for mayor of Xalapa in eastern Mexico with the campaign slogan “Tired of Voting for Rats? Vote for a Cat.” And he is attracting tens of thousands of politician-weary, two-legged supporters on social media. Continue reading
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Sick of voting for rats? Elect a cat: Four-legged Morris runs for mayor in Mexico

(Photo: Stringer / Mexico / Reuters)

This mayoral hopeful in Mexico promises to eat, sleep most of the day and donate his leftover litter to fill potholes.

Morris, a black-and-white kitten with orange eyes, is running for mayor of Xalapa in eastern Mexico with the campaign slogan “Tired of Voting for Rats? Vote for a Cat.” And he is attracting tens of thousands of politician-weary, two-legged supporters on social media.

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Cute or spooky? Underwater pictures earn seal of approval in contest (Photos: Kyle McBurnie, Joseph Tepper, Laura Rock) How could you resist a cute harbor seal looking at you from a kelp forest off the California coast? The judges for the 2013 Underwater Photography Contest clearly couldn’t: They chose Kyle McBurnie’s picture of a soulful seal as the competition’s top image. See more photos and continue reading
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Cute or spooky? Underwater pictures earn seal of approval in contest (Photos: Kyle McBurnie, Joseph Tepper, Laura Rock) How could you resist a cute harbor seal looking at you from a kelp forest off the California coast? The judges for the 2013 Underwater Photography Contest clearly couldn’t: They chose Kyle McBurnie’s picture of a soulful seal as the competition’s top image. See more photos and continue reading
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Cute or spooky? Underwater pictures earn seal of approval in contest (Photos: Kyle McBurnie, Joseph Tepper, Laura Rock) How could you resist a cute harbor seal looking at you from a kelp forest off the California coast? The judges for the 2013 Underwater Photography Contest clearly couldn’t: They chose Kyle McBurnie’s picture of a soulful seal as the competition’s top image. See more photos and continue reading
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Cute or spooky? Underwater pictures earn seal of approval in contest

(Photos: Kyle McBurnie, Joseph Tepper, Laura Rock)

How could you resist a cute harbor seal looking at you from a kelp forest off the California coast? The judges for the 2013 Underwater Photography Contest clearly couldn’t: They chose Kyle McBurnie’s picture of a soulful seal as the competition’s top image.

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Joy amid tornado’s destruction as owners find lost pets (Photo: Central OK Humane Society) Vicki Lemmings sobbed with joy as her son’s dog Baby ran up to give her a lick. “Good girl, Grandma loves you so much,” she cooed through her tears on Tuesday evening. Read the complete story.
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Joy amid tornado’s destruction as owners find lost pets

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Vicki Lemmings sobbed with joy as her son’s dog Baby ran up to give her a lick.

“Good girl, Grandma loves you so much,” she cooed through her tears on Tuesday evening.

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Virgin birth or hanky-panky? Anteater mom sparks a scientific debate (Photo: LEOzoo.org) Is it a case of anteater virgin birth, a hormonal quirk or just some desperate hanky-panky? Whatever it is, Armani the anteater’s surprising pregnancy has sparked a debate over what animals are capable of when it comes to sex. Read the complete story.
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Virgin birth or hanky-panky? Anteater mom sparks a scientific debate

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Is it a case of anteater virgin birth, a hormonal quirk or just some desperate hanky-panky? Whatever it is, Armani the anteater’s surprising pregnancy has sparked a debate over what animals are capable of when it comes to sex.

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Grad accepts diploma with cap-and-gown clad service dog (Photo: Bridget Evans) Service dog Hero goes everywhere with his owner Bridget Evans, from classrooms, to movie theaters, to doctor’s appointments. He’s been there for moments of joy and sadness both. And he was by her side on Saturday, clad in his own royal blue cap and gown, when Evans made her way across the podium to accept her diploma from graduate school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Read the complete story.
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Grad accepts diploma with cap-and-gown clad service dog

(Photo: Bridget Evans)

Service dog Hero goes everywhere with his owner Bridget Evans, from classrooms, to movie theaters, to doctor’s appointments. He’s been there for moments of joy and sadness both. And he was by her side on Saturday, clad in his own royal blue cap and gown, when Evans made her way across the podium to accept her diploma from graduate school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Goats to clean up at Chicago’s O’Hare International (Photo: Gregg Woodward) If they had passports, they’d probably eat them. A herd of about 25 goats will soon arrive at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and go to work munching weeds and invasive plants on about 120 acres of airport-owned land that is difficult to get to with traditional landscaping equipment. Read the complete story.
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Goats to clean up at Chicago’s O’Hare International

(Photo: Gregg Woodward)

If they had passports, they’d probably eat them.

A herd of about 25 goats will soon arrive at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and go to work munching weeds and invasive plants on about 120 acres of airport-owned land that is difficult to get to with traditional landscaping equipment.

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‘Grumpy Cat’ becomes artistic muse for online auction (Photo: Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment) She’s been an Internet celebrity, morning show guest, South by Southwest star and magazine cover girl. And now, Tardar Sauce aka “Grumpy Cat,” the sourpuss that’s spawned a million memes, can add a new role to the list: Artist’s muse.  Read the complete story.
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‘Grumpy Cat’ becomes artistic muse for online auction

(Photo: Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment)

She’s been an Internet celebrity, morning show guest, South by Southwest star and magazine cover girl. And now, Tardar Sauce aka “Grumpy Cat,” the sourpuss that’s spawned a million memes, can add a new role to the list: Artist’s muse. 

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Beekeeper removes 60,000 honeybees from Utah cabin (Photo: AP / Courtesy Vic Bachman) SALT LAKE CITY — It was the biggest beehive that that Ogden beekeeper Vic Bachman has ever removed — a dozen feet long, packed inside the eve of a cabin in Ogden Valley. “We figure we got 15 pounds of bees out of there,” said Bachman, who said that converts to about 60,000 honeybees. Read the complete story.
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Beekeeper removes 60,000 honeybees from Utah cabin

(Photo: AP / Courtesy Vic Bachman)

SALT LAKE CITY — It was the biggest beehive that that Ogden beekeeper Vic Bachman has ever removed — a dozen feet long, packed inside the eve of a cabin in Ogden Valley.

“We figure we got 15 pounds of bees out of there,” said Bachman, who said that converts to about 60,000 honeybees.

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