Animals in the news
 Animals make headlines almost every day -- from silly stories to scary tales to heartbreakers. Here are some that got our attention in recent weeks.



Cat with thunderous purr
 Sound specialists at a British community college recorded the purr of a housecat named Smokey and said it was 16 times louder than the average purr

Bronx Zoo cobra Twitter
 375-pound shark jumps
 Raccoon head stuck
 A raccoon attracted quite a crowd when he spent eight hours perched on a utility pole with his head stuck inside a peanut butter jar

Rare tortoise missing
 Norman scooter-riding dog
 Lost penguin Lima
 Turtle blaze New York
 Coyote delays jets
 Dog found alive burned home
 A Boston woman was overjoyed when she found Lola, her beloved dachshund, living in the wreckage of her burned-out home -- a month after the fire.

Baby dolphin tsunami
 Abandoned deaf puppy sign language
 Disabled kangaroo
 An Oklahoma woman suffering from depression is fighting to keep a therapy pet that has city officials concerned about possible public safety risks. Christie Carr is asking for an exemption that would allow her to keep her 25-pound partially paralyzed great red kangaroo named Irwin.

Dogs look guilty cat treats
A video "investigation" featuring two dogs and one empty bag of cat treats became an online sensation.

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