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2019 BITS
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Wacky
6th, Wacky PIECES
November Police in Florida are seek-

World

| World ing information on the disap-
pearance of an unusual piece
EXAMINER News Bigfoot statue.
of property - a 300-pound
News
The Boynton Beach Police
Department said the 8-foot-
IRISH tall Sasquatch statue was
stolen from in front of a store
called Mattress Monsterz in
October.
“Bigfoot is missing,” the
Escape artist shelter cat’s male wolf fled the zoo grounds. monds embedded in the seat. department tweeted.
door-opening skills go viral “Wolves can jump up to 10 feet and The Coronet jewelry brand, owned Police are asking anyone
A cat at a Houston shelter has the enclosure ceiling was of around 7 by Aaron Shum Jewelry Ltd., unveiled with information on the miss-
become a viral celebrity after employ- feet. The animals hit the weak point of the gold toilet Monday at the second ing statue to contact detec-
ees had to take extra security meas- the mesh to make an escape route,” M China International Import Expo in tives. C
ures to prevent the escape artist from Sudhagar, the zoo’s field director, told Shanghai.
freeing his feline comrades. the Times of India. The toilet is made mostly of gold, Authorities in California
The Friends For Life Animal Rescue The zoo dispatched its quick with the seat composed of bulletproof came to the rescue of a bear
and Adoption Organization said response team and the wolf was locat- glass with 40,815 diamonds embedded named T-Shirt that found
itself trapped inside a dump-
Quilty, a 7-year-old cat born at the ed and tranquilized about 6:30 a.m. in it - a total 334.68 carats. ster.
shelter and returned a few months ago Tuesday in a nearby wooded area. Coronet said the toilet is scheduled The Placer County Sheriff's
when his adopter had to move, was Sudhagar said the wolf was not to be inspected by Guinness World Office said deputies responded
found to have the skills to open the injured, but will be kept under veteri- Records on Wednesday to determine Monday morning to a dump-
doors to the free-roaming cat rooms nary observation before returning to whether it qualifies for a new record: ster in Kings Beach where a
and release them into the lobby. its enclosure. most diamonds set in a toilet. It would bear was reported trapped
The shelter shared photos on The wire mesh is being strength- be the 10th word record for coronet, inside.
Facebook of a door handle rigged with ened at weak points to prevent future which previously captured titles “He is a local bear and has
a broom to prevent Quilty from oper- escapes, he said. including most diamonds set in a had prior run-ins with our
deputies,” the sheriff’s office
ating it. The zoological park obtained three watch. said in a Facebook post.
“Apparently this is not a new skill wolves in 2017 as part of an exchange The sheriff’s office shared
he learned here at the shelter; he used program with the Jaipur zoo. Puppy found in Australian video of T-Shirt, named for a
to let his dog sibling in the house at family’s back yard was white patch of fur on his chest,
his old home,” the post said. Rescuers hoist horse out of a purebred dingo being freed from the dumpster
The shelter has since shared more swimming pool in Virginia A puppy believed to have been by two deputies. C
of Quilty’s antics, including video of Animal rescuers in Virginia used a dropped by a bird of prey into an
the feline attempting to paw his way tractor and a sling to hoist a horse that Australian family’s back yard was A British zoo announced its
out through a window. was stuck in a resident’s backyard brought to a veterinarian and later dis- missing red panda was found
in a tree about a mile away
Jennifer Hopkins of Friends For Life swimming pool. covered to be a purebred dingo. from the facility about three
said the posts have resulted in a lot of The Little Fork Volunteer Veterinarian Rebekah Day of weeks later.
interested calls about Quilty. She said Technical Large Animal Rescue Team, Alpine Animal Hospital in Bright, The Curraghs Wildlife Park
the shelter tries to keep social media which is run by the Little Fork Victoria, said a Wandiligong family said the male red panda,
posts light-hearted to draw attention Volunteer Fire Co. in Rixeyville, said found the small puppy in their back named Kush, was spotted by a
to the personalities of their animals. a crew was summoned to a pool near yard and initially left it alone, believ- resident up a tree in a garden
“We don’t want to ‘Sarah Gordonsville just before 7 a.m. Oct. 1. ing to be a stray dog. in Sulby Glen.
McLachlan’ anyone with our commu- The team found a house named The family eventually brought the Park staff captured Kush,
nications; bringing a new family mem- Annie had escaped from her field and puppy to Alpine Animal Hospital and the animal is being kept
ber into your home should be a joyful ended up plunging into the pool. when no one came to claim the off display while veterinarians
monitor his health and weight.
experience,” Hopkins told the A Gordonsville Volunteer Fire canine, and Day noticed marks on the Kush initially escaped
Houston Chronicle. “We want to cre- Department firefighter climbed into animal’s back that indicated it may about three weeks earlier
ate more of that in the world, and if it the pool to keep Annie calm while a have been dropped into the back yard when a tree fell across the bar-
means calling a cat a ‘spicy a-hole,’ veterinarian sedated the animal and by a bird of prey. rier of his enclosure, allowing
then we’re your people.” monitored her health. Lyn Watson, director of the him to climb to freedom. He
The rescue team attached a sling to Australian Dingo Foundation, asked was caught on video in late
Wolf captured in woods after a tractor and used it to hoist the horse Day to send a genetic sample from the October by a trail camera set
zoo enclosure escape in India out of the water. puppy to the University of New South up by zoo neighbor James
Officials at a zoo in India confirmed The team said Annie was able to Wales, which revealed the animal was Gale in hope of locating the
missing animal.
a wolf escaped from its enclosure by stand on her own after the rescue and 100 percent purebred dingo. “I would like to thank all
breaking through the ceiling and was was eating when they left her in the The dingo, now named Wandi, was the staff for a great team job,
later captured in the nearby woods. care of her owners. taken into the care of the Australian James the park’s neighbor for
The Mahendra Chaudhry Dingo Foundation, which said the all his efforts and help also
Zoological Park in Chhatbir said two Gold toilet features 40,815 young canine will be an important Susan for being so kind and
wolves, a male and a female, broke diamonds embedded part of its breeding program for the helpful while we did the
through the wire mesh ceiling of their in the seat species, which is listed as “vulnerable” retrieval operation in her gar-
enclosure about 5:30 p.m. Monday. A Hong Kong jewelry company by the International Union for the den,” Park Manager Kathleen
The female wolf climbed back into exhibiting at an expo in China Conservation of Nature and Natural Graham said in a Facebook
post. C
the enclosure on her own, but the unveiled a gold toilet with 40,815 dia- Resources. C