Michael D. Roescher of Monson found all seven of his cats, alive, who went missing after the June 1 tornado destroyed his house. On Sunday, Roescher's cat Rocky was found in the rubble. Roescher camped outside his house at 8 Washington St. during the day and searched for his pets at night.
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Mayor Menino wants to "take more risks" in the next four years. [Boston Globe]
Flaherty and Yoon are keeping their options open. [Boston Globe]
Town of Amherst votes to accept two Guantanamo Bay prisoners as residents -- if they're released. [Christian Science Monitor]
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People around Massachusetts have been helping animals in need.
The birth of Kiki the gorilla's third baby on Thursday wasn't the only animal news in Massachusetts.
Animals have been making news lately.
- A custodian found a python in a locker at the old Newton North High School on Tuesday. The Ball python is common in Massachusetts and was thought to be about a year old and either two or three feet long. (Boston.cmom reported both. Maybe his name is Reed Richards.) The custodian knew how to catch the snake by watching nature shows. [Boston.com]
- A deer was found dead in the Uxbridge Church of the Nazarene on Tuesday. The doe got in but couldn't get out. [MassLive.com]
- No animal story is complete without crazy cat people. The Barnstable Animal Control Officer rescued 38 cats from a Hyannisport home. The cats were dirty but not necessarily unhealthy. Some reportedly had "beards of fleas." [Cape Cod Times]
The Onion reports on a situation gripping the nation (or at least a part of Somerville): the cat that won't die. Nineteen-year-old Socrates has ulcers, kidney problems, and some kind of eye infection that presumably makes his peepers weep with wisdom. Gooey wisdom. Yet he keeps on keeping on. Of his cat's closest brush with death, owner Brian Pressman noted,
Polydactyly! No, it's not a sex thing (well, it probably is a fetish, but we don't particularly want to know about it). It is the condition of having extra digits (as in fingers or toes, not numbers). And according to The Oatmeal, an entertaining website that alternately educates about and makes a mockery of various topics with the aid of enlightening illustrations, Boston has a large number of polydactyl cats, leading to the many-toed felines (famously adored by Ernest Hemingway) being known as "Boston thumb cats." Wikipedia says polydactyl cats were prized by sailors for their climbing abilities and were thought to bring good luck, perhaps inflating their population in the port of Boston.
We're not sure if this resident of 19th century Boston needed thumb picks to play his banjo, but we suspect that he got by without them. The image comes from Flickr user Photo_History, a collector of old school photographs. It's from a cabinet card that was probably made by Louis De Ribas, "a Boston photographer who patented a drop shutter in 1887." It's a reminder that cats were funny more than a century before the Internet put words in their mouths.
- The Bobcats are to the Celtics what the Giants were to the Patriots: confident, strong, capable of making a game of it (although we'd like to think that we won't see Jason Richardson celebrating a championship for at least another couple of years). The Celts barely beat the 'Cats in November, lost (embarrassingly) in January, and were challenged up until the end on Friday night, when Boston won, 108-100, at TD Banknorth Garden.
--Fires ran rampant yesterday. A mother and her son were injured last night in a fire in Somerville. One firefighter was treated and released at the hospital. [Boston Globe] --Another fire broke out in Haverhill last night, and people were injured jumping out of the windows. No one died in the blaze, but 24 people have lost their homes. [Boston Globe, Boston Herald] --The state Supreme Judicial Court is letting Heidi Erickson, who kept...
"That's not the way we drew it up," said Colorado manager Clint Hurdle. "Obviously we have to change our game plan," added Todd Helton. "You can't make any mistakes," chimed in shellshocked starting pitcher Jeff Francis. If you're Colorado, what else can you say? The team that charged through September and most of October, and held Arizona to eight total runs in their mockery of an NLCS, looked like they hadn't played baseball in eight...
LAist began the month with a new food series exploring the popular and unknown late-night eats around town. If a Top Chef winner opened up a late-night spot in Los Angeles, denizens would flock to it, yet the LA Times and other media might be wary. Turning to sports, the Dodger season was quite memorable in the way that it imploded and the LA County Sheriff's Department made some games of their own such as...
This week, Phillyist saw the waters of a landmark fountain run red for a Showtime marketing stunt, the Phils pull ahead, and some serious nostalgia. They also got a chance to review an awesome tribute album, reminded folks to see the King and appreciated their beautiful skyline. Chicagoist knows what it's like to like the Cubs. But naming your kid Wrigley Fields? At least they can breathe a little easier now that Grossman's out and...
Two years ago the shag hit the floor. This time it wasn't carpeting but rather an alarm clock with wheels that ran away from the user. Clocky was developed by MIT student Gauri Nanda. In December we heard that the prototype had moved from the Alpha to Beta version and finally into production. Clocky was in commercial production with a promise that the runaway alarm clock would make it off the nightstand of the tech-loving...
Imagine our dismay when we tuned in to the "Daily Show" on Thursday night to witness their piece on Cape Wind when we saw some lame piece about Clinton and Obama sniping at each other. Was Cape Wind not funny enough for the "Daily Show"? How could a story that involves the immortal line "You are a traitor to your class" not appeal to the "Daily Show"? Well, never fear. Wendy Williams, co-author of Cape...
The creep who set a cat aflame and pitched it into the first floor of an East Boston home has made national news. Neighbors are outraged and rattled at the fate of the unfortunate kitty cat. What kind of moron would set a cat on fire? People are easier on you if you set a human being on fire because at least another human being can fight back. This cat didn't have a chance. Plus,...
Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week's "Segway Mom" and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It's not West Side Story, but about as close as they'll get. They're also still waiting on some inbox relief after a spammer is arrested. As Chicagoist counts down the days to its third anniversary party, they found all-organic pizza to be underwhelming amidst the hoopla, tried...
The nicer the weather gets, the busier we get across the Ist-A-Verse. But we like being busy. Here's a peek at what we've been up to since last week! Chicagoist had an interview with Audrey Niffenegger, whose popular book, The Time Traveler's Wife, was based in their fine city. They also had a heated discussion about Rush Limbaugh's controversial Barack Obama parody, talked about whether Uncle Julio's Hacienda is a good place to get...
--More details have emerged about the Mattapan man who was stabbed to death yesterday. Sylvester Mitchell was 38 years old and may have been stabbed as part of a domestic dispute because his wife was questioned by police. He was murdered on his birthday. --Overnight, another stabbing happened, this time in Dorchester, and the victim is in stable condition. Less lucky is a pedestrian who was hit in Brighton at Cambridge and Harvard Avenues. The...
Remember that cute Boston terrier we showed when we first wrote about the Menu Foods pet food recall? His name is Oreo, and, unfortunately, he was sickened by the tainted pet food. According to the puppy's owner, Oreo, who lives in New Jersey, "spent more than a full day in the hospital being treated for kidney failure.” He is back home and "energetic," but the experience was harrowing, to say the least. Oreo did wind...
--First it was tainted spinach. Then it was tainted peanut butter. Now it's tainted pet food. Some dogs and cats have been vomiting after eating wet pet food. About 10 pets died. Since the manufacturer, Menu Foods, is such a big player in the market, this impacts many brands. So if your pet prefers cuts and gravy, you might want to switch to the dry stuff until this gets cleared up. Fido might howl about...
The Chlotrudis Awards kick off at 5:00 pm tomorrow, Sunday, March 18, at the Brattle Theatre. Tickets are only $20. How is that price for an awards show honoring movies that were better than most of what got nominated at the Oscars? Oscars, Schmoscars. Boston has the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, which is holding its awards ceremony Sunday, March 18th, at the Brattle Theatre. (By the way, "Chlotrudis" came from combining the names of...
The state of the sidewalks around Boston kept us on our asses this weekend. Not so much of the figurative kind where we sat at home and skipped a show because it was too hard to get around. No, more the literal kind where we kept falling down because of that damn 2" layer of ice that was pretty much everywhere. This week they tell us that the temperature is rising by week's end....
Further proof that you can get just about everything and anything that you're looking for on Craigslist – and some things you're not – a big ol' aluminum foil ball went on the block today. From the original post:
Okay, there is no short way to explain this, but to put it bluntly after an incident involving almost a mile's length of foil the result of the cleanup was transformed into the form of a giant foil ball.more ›