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A Berkshire couple returned home to find their house had been set on fire by their 70-year-old tortoise.
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Emma, who also has a dog and two baby tortoises, said: “We were out shopping when we got a call from the fire brigade saying that our tortoise had set the house on fire.
A humorous story about a boy and his pony.
I haven’t mentioned the “Great Animal Rebellion” for a while. I think this might fit in there somewhere.
There was an award-winning SF Novella a few years back entitled, Bears Discover Fire. A scary tale that was. However, it was fiction.
It appears Bears may have discovered Cars!
Police in New Jersey say a black bear is suspected of stealing a people carrier and taking it for a spin.
Officer Dave Dehardt found the vehicle by the side of the road near Vernon Township, reports Court TV.
The passenger window had been broken and the door panels were damaged.
Police spokesman Det Sean Talt said: “He determined it was a bear because of all the bear hair inside.
Only one question: was it determined to be bear hair through genetic testing…or does the Detective know Bear Hair when he sees it?
Could it have been a large dog named Cujo?
As Blair points out, the news story of a dog that shot a man in Iowa bears mentioning in the overall Great Animal Rebellion.
But there are two things about the story that I wish to focus on. Neither of these facts are in all versions of the news story. Ananova keys us in though.
1) Mr Harris was treated at Grinnell Regional Medical Centre and later taken by helicopter to University of Iowa Hospitals in Iowa City, following the accident in Poweshiek County.
Hey! I spent parts of three years in Poweshiek County! I went to Grinnell College! True, I was never inside Grinnell Regional Medical Centre…
Of course, you probably don’t care about that.
2) Alan Foster, a spokesman for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, said it was not uncommon for hunters to be shot by their dogs.
And you probably thought this was a freak accident. Of course not! It’s a rebellion I tell ya!
One of my early posts on this uprising mentions a “Dog in South Dakota”. The story has been removed from Ananova’s archives, but I’ve discovered that Ananova isn’t blocking caches…so it appears on the
To truly comprehend the magnitude of the situation, you have to compare the frequency to other comparable events. If the Iowa Dept of Natural Resources sees a couple cases per year, it’s probably a safe assumption that several other states do too. It’s likely that every year, more dogs go on a shooting spree, than high school students.
I’m going to have to spend some time updating a lot of links on my old posts, but at least the stories are all still out there.
I last blogged about the Great Animal Rebellion three years ago. Most if not all the links to the news stories in those three posts are dead.
If I start keeping track of this again, I’m going to have to start quoting from some of the news stories so there is a record.
Wild monkeys attack a New Delhi deputy mayor who falls to his death.
Media reports say the deputy mayor of New Delhi was on the balcony of his home when he was attacked by a gang of Rhesus macaques (REE’-suhs muh-KAKS’) causing him to fall. He was rushed to the hospital but died of head injuries.
Many government buildings, temples and residential neighborhoods in New Delhi are overrun by Rhesus macaques.
A Scottish farmer’s wife says her horse saved her life after it fought off a cow that was attacking her.
Fiona Boyd, 40, feared she was going to be crushed to death by the cow after it kicked her to the ground, then rolled on top of her.
She says she survived only because her horse, Kerry, raced to the rescue and kicked the cow until it moved off her.
And then there are the news stories that perhaps explain the reasons behind the rebellion:
Smoke ban causes collie wobbles
A dog with a cigarette habit is suffering withdrawal following the smoking ban.
What do you call a pig with six legs and two willies?
A piglet born in Croatia with six legs and two penises has been nicknamed Octopig…[owner:]”Who knows, maybe we can breed more although the two penises might be a problem.”
If anyone was wondering what was going on in The Great Animal Rebellion…
Apparently, it continues.
Remember, when other news sources start connecting these stories…You heard about it here, first!
Japanese crows, a dog in South Dakota, Australian pig, a Minnesota pig, Foxes in Surrey, If this man hadn’t woken up, there’s no tellling what the deer might have done to him…
It’s a Conspiracy!
