Where’s my lasagna biatch!
In the true spirit of Garfield, pet cats in the UK are starting to get the same diseases as their owners, relishing on the lazy 21st century western lifestyle.
“The lifestyle of cats, just like their owners, is changing. They are tending to eat too much, gain weight and take less exercise. Unfortunately, just like people, cats will overeat if they are offered too much tasty food, particularly if they are bored and have little else to do.
“While cats would naturally exercise outside, many cats are now house-bound — perhaps because they live in a flat or because their owners feel that it is too dangerous to let them out — so they have little to do all day but eat, sleep, and gain weight,” said Professor Danielle Gunn-Moore from the University of Edinburgh.
The fattening of the UK population of cats parralels that of the human population and has led to a sharp rise in the cases of diabetes in felines.
Among the breeds, Burmese cats are three times more likely to develop the disease.
Tips for all you cat keepers in having a healthy pet cat include:
Choose a healthy, natural cat food
Lots of foods are full of artificial additives, sugars and cereals and not enough meat. Look for natural dry foods with at least 26 per cent meat and wet foods that have more than 80 per cent meat
Feed the correct amount
Follow the guidelines on the packaging rather than just feeding to your cat’s appetite
Small regular meals
Don’t leave food down all day. Instead, give your cat small regular meals when it is hungry
Avoid titbits and treats
Leftovers tend to be very fatty and treats are usually rich in sugars, so avoid letting your cat snack between meals
Make your cat work for its food
Rather than serve the food openly in a dish, hide it. You can buy specially designed toys in which to hide dry or wet foods, or you can improvise Exercise
Introduce exercise gradually
If you have a fat cat it will need to be eased into it. Cats are not like dogs. There are no set targets and you cannot force them to exercise
Playtime
Rubber balls, a ball of wool or any toy with catnip in it should really get them going. Activity centres with scratching posts and hanging toys are a good way of interesting them in exercise
Walkies
You can buy harnesses to take your cat out for a walk. It is not for every cat, but some will benefit
The RSPCA has a website with advice for animal lovers about how to keep their pets in shape: www.petsgetslim.co.uk .
Source: timesonline.co.uk
Hey, after all that, maybe even you can get in shape just like your pet cat.
Go on, tell the world! 
Little lamb born with 7, yes S-E-V-E-N legs!
August 2, 2007
The Crazy News: Shot of the Week 
A leg for every day of the week.
When farmer Dave Callaghan was walking the green pastures of his farm near the town of Ashburton on New Zealand’s south island, he got the shock of a lifetime when he realized that one of his little lambs had 3 more legs than usual.
“I have never seen anything like that,” said Dave in a deep Kiwi accent.
Vets believe the lambs condition is a result of an error during embryo formation, which meant he was born a polydactyl - or with many legs, and occurs in one in every few million.
The animal is also a hermaphrodite and missing some of its bowel, and it will have to be put down.
A wee lamb
“To keep it alive is probably inhumane really,” was a vets assesment.
“It’s quite a happy bright wee lamb, he’s just slowly going downhill really,”
Poor fella.
See the original article HERE.
Note: I see now that CNN has picked up this story, I was trying to think of a creative headline for this one for some time, but this takes the cake…
“Lamb with 7 legs faces the chop”
Oh CNN, your so funny….
Speaking of New Zealanders and meat… Have you read the story about Vegans refusing to have sexual relations with meat eaters?
Go on, tell the world! Bookmark this story.
“Vegansexual”: No sex for meat eaters!
July 31, 2007
Sex?
‘Yes please! But not with you carnivores’
Talk about taking the term ‘you are what you eat’ a little too far.
A new phenomenon among vegetarians in New Zealand takes a very extreme stance on that concept, because apparently an exchange of body fluids with meat eaters would violate the philosophies of Veganism.
Annie Potts from Canterbury University in New Zealand has coined the term “Vegansexual” to describe people, “who do not eat any meat or animal products, and who choose not to be sexually intimate with non-vegan partners whose bodies, they say, are made up of dead animals.”
In her research she quizzed 157 Kiwis on issues ranging from battery chickens to sexual preferences.
Many female respondents described being attracted to people who ate meat, but said they did not want to have sex with meat-eaters because their bodies were made up of animal carcasses.
“It’s a whole new thing – I have not come across it before,” said Potts.
One vegan respondent from Christchurch said: “I believe we are what we consume, so I really struggle with bodily fluids, especially sexually.”
Another Christchurch vegan said she found non-vegans attractive, but would not want to be physically close to them.
“I would not want to be intimate with someone whose body is literally made up from the bodies of others who have died for their sustenance,” she said.
Christchurch vegan Nichola Kriek has been married to her vegan husband, Hans, for nine years.
She would not describe herself as vegansexual, but said it would definitely be a preference.
She could understand people not wanting to get too close to non-vegan or non-vegetarians.
“When you are vegan or vegetarian, you are very aware that when people eat a meaty diet, they are kind of a graveyard for animals,” she said.
World’s Biggest Condom?
The Weekend that was…
The mysteries of the ocean, the lust and oddities of the sky feature in this edition of…..
The Crazy News: Quick Quotes.
UK
“We got chatting and it went a bit further. And it was every man’s dream, to be honest.”
Entrepreneur and Virgin boss Richard Branson on his joining of the ‘mile high club’ at the ripe old age of 19.
Indonesia
“It was an enormous fish. It had phosphorescent green eyes and legs. If I had pulled it up during the night, I would have been afraid and I would have thrown it back in.”
Indonesian fisherman Justinus Lahama on his astonishing catch of a rare coelacanth fish. Oceanic scientists want him to reconstruct his lucky haul so they can understand the species that is at least 360 million years old and was once thought to have become extinct with the dinosaurs.
Holland
“This is a playful way of asking for attention to the problem of sexually transmitted diseases, HIV and AIDS.”
The director of Dutch Health Services explains the motivation behind a giant condom shaped hot air balloon drifting lazily across the sky at a music/motor cross festival in Lichtenvoorde.
UK
“It was horrifying. If I’d have known it was a great white at the time I would have panicked.”
A British woman shocked to have caught a Great White Shark on film in British waters. The British media are now in a ‘Jaws frenzy’.
Italy
“The people were offloaded because they failed to comply with safety instructions when the aircraft was taxiing. Two passengers stood up and refused to sit down.”
A spokesperson explains why three Qatari princesses were kicked off a flight from Milan after they refused to sit next to male passengers they did not know.
For the record it wasn’t a Virgin flight….
“I knew that giant condom would come in handy….”
