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Friday Catblogging: They’re Only Misunderstood

Embed from Getty Images Colleen Grablick reports Cats aren’t jerks. They’re just misunderstood (‘Feline researchers say many cats are quite social. Yours might even want to learn a few tricks): Monique Udell is the director of the Human-Animal Interaction Lab at Oregon State University, which has been investigating the social potential of domestic cats. According…

Friday Catblogging: Paying Library Fines with Cat Photos

Embed from Getty Images Vinay Menon writes Paying library fines with cat photos? It’s a purr-fect (sorry!) way to encourage literacy: But since even paltry fines may prove too much for some forgetful bookworms, the Worcester Public Library has just purred out a revolutionary idea: now you can pay for overdue, lost or damaged items…

Friday Catblogging: Curious Cat Offers Help to First Responders

Jennifer McRae reports Curious cat tries to help first responders at crash, hazmat spill on I-25 in Colorado: An orange tabby cat wandered onto the crash scene and hazmat spill on Interstate 25 in Douglas County [Colorado] on Thursday morning. Three people were hurt in the crash in the northbound lanes of I-25 at Happy…

Friday Catblogging: Stay Out of the Lion Enclosure

Embed from Getty Images Mary Walrath-Holdridge reports Man mauled to death after jumping into lion enclosure in India to take a selfie: A zoo-goer in India is dead after scaling a lion enclosure in hopes of taking a selfie, according to multiple reports. The man, 34-year-old Prahlad Gurjar of the Alwar District in northern India,…