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Just when you think you have seen it all.   A postal worker from Germany came to the decision that he should marry his 15 year old cat.   Apparently the cat, Cecilla, doesn’t have long to live.   The two met 10 years ago while Uwe Mitzscherlich was on vacation on the Baltic Sea coast.   Uwe told officials “Ceclia has a trusting nature,”(as most cats do.)   German authorities will not carry out official duties among man and cat, so Mitzscherlich asked 56 year old actress Christin-Maria Lohri to step in for the furry feline.   No word yet on exactly what Christin-Maria-Lohri wore to the wedding but the groon wore a tuxedo with a top hat. The bride wore a small wedding gown.   Mitzscherlich held on to his bride as the ceremony was performed complete with flowers, a wedding march the vows and finally, the kiss.   Let's make sure we have this correct. Germans marry dying cats, Japanese marry pillows, and Americans can marry their first cousin in most states as long as they are not of the same sex?    Sounds like a Jerry Springer show to us at animali.tv.

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A British woman said her pet pig received a letter from officials encouraging it to register to vote in the general election.   Pauline Grant, 73, of Uckfield, England, said her pig, Blossom, receives several pieces of junk mail each month due to a Land Registry error when her building was renovated two years ago and the animal recently received a notice reminding her to register to vote in last week's election.   "I could not believe it when the letter telling Blossom to register to vote came through it was one of the strangest things I had ever seen," Grant said. "I am not sure who Blossom would have voted for but at a guess I would say the Green Party. They would probably look after her needs best."   "She is a very clever animal but I think politics might be a bit complicated for her," she said.   After contacting Wealden District Council to point out the mix-up, Mrs Grant decided to take Blossom down to her nearest polling station on May 6.   She added: "I did it as a sort of piggy protest for poor old Blossom and the amount of paperwork she is expected to do."   A Wealden District spokesman said the pig receives mail meant for humans due to a database error.   A spokesman for Wealden District said: "The flat is listed as being named The Pig on a database of addresses used by local authorities. I can confirm no pigs voted in the area last week."

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A report from Monday said some farmers in the Shrewsbury area have been finding some of their sheep dead and strangely mutilated.   The unexplained incidents, where sheep's brains and eyes have been removed, have been blamed on orange lights in the night sky.   After staging a dramatic stake-out they claim to have even witnessed unsuspecting sheep being zapped by two of the spheres.   They have found multiple sheep with 'neat holes' in their torso and missing organs, while others have had their flesh carefully stripped away.   Phil Hoyle, 53, has been investigating the livestock deaths for almost a decade, and said that UFOs have been roaming a 50-mile corridoor between Shrewsbury and Powys.      “The technology involved in these attacks is frightening,” he said.   “These lights and spheres are clearly not ours.   “They are built by technology and intelligence that's not from here.”   He added: “For a short while it looked more like a Star Wars battle.”   Next day he interviewed farmers and "all but one had some type of unusual disappearance of animals or deaths with strange injuries".   Hoyle and colleagues created the Animal Pathology Field Unit, and the men have been investigating animal mutilations in Great Britain since 1998.   About 16 members of the Animal Pathology Field Unit, in Shropshire to investigate the mutilations, have reported seeing unexplained lights in the skies in the Shropshire area during the past month.

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We at animali.tv came across this story which left us questioning the British justice.   Joan Higgins, 66, was the victim of a Trading Standards sting when the 6ft youth was sent to buy the goldfish.   Her punishment is a £1,000 fine, 7pm-to-7am curfew and electronic tag which has left her with a criminal record worse than many violent yobs.   She said: “I’m devastated. The tag and curfew mean I can’t even go into my garden or empty my bins.   "They act like I’m a thug who can’t be trusted out at night in case I burgle a house or spray graffiti on a wall.”   She added: “When they came on Tuesday night and fitted the tag the man told me I had a criminal record – it hit me like a bombshell.   "I have a monitor and if I step out of my front door people will come round and cart me off to prison. It's unbelievable.   “Why can’t I offer to pay a sum to an animal charity instead? That would help everyone.”   Last night there was a growing clamour for Joan to be freed from her tag, nicknamed an “electronic ball and chain”.   David Davies, the Tory MP for Monmouth, said: “It is absolutely ludicrous that she should be electronically tagged for something like this.   “At a time when courts are being told not to lock up career burglars we have them issuing severe punishments like this on little old ladies.”   His fellow Tory MP Philip Davies said: “What purpose is served by tagging and putting someone like this under a curfew?   “That sort of thing is designed to keep people likely to cause trouble off the streets at night.”   At most, Joan expected a reprimand for breaking a law banning the sale of pets to under-16s. Curfews and tags are usually only used to keep a track of violent thugs and repeat offenders.   Under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 it is illegal to sell pets to children under 16 unless they are accompanied by an adult.   The prosecution of Joan and her son Mark, who run the Majors Pet shop in Sale, Greater Manchester, cost taxpayers £20,000. Mark, 47, had to shut the shop yesterday as he started his 120 hours of community work.   He claimed the undercover operation was designed to trap them, adding: “He looked much older than 14.   “The only other time my mum has been in court is when she did jury service.”   Joan's friends and customers reacted with anger.   Barrie Cordingley said: “Why didn’t the council send a child that looked like a child? They must have used the biggest 14-year-old they could find – nearly 6ft tall.”   June Byrne added: “I am appalled at what has happened to Mrs Higgins. I know her very well and she would never knowingly hurt any animal.   “She has looked after the welfare of animals all her life. She does a lot for animal charities.   “What is the world coming to when a 66-year-old woman is denied her freedom over selling a goldfish to a minor?”   Joan and her son admitted selling the fish to a person aged under 16 and with causing unnecessary suffering to a cockatiel by failing to provide appropriate care and treatment.   She told Trafford magistrates the cockatiel had not been for sale and she had been bathing its eye daily. Iain Veitch, head of public protection at Trafford Council, was unrepentant about bringing the prosecution yesterday.   He said: “Let this conviction send out a message that we will not tolerate those who cause unnecessary suffering to animals.”   The goldfish, which was adopted by an animal welfare officer, was unharmed.

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Authorities are investigating a Chinese zoo where three dozen animals including 11 rare Siberian tigers died recently, amid charges it was harvesting their parts, state media said Monday.   The probe of the zoo in the northeastern city of Shenyang will look at whether the animal parts were being used as ingredients in Chinese medicine and other products, Xinhua news agency said.   China banned the international trade in tiger bones and related products in 1993, and is a signatory to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which also bars such trade.   But such transactions exist as many tiger parts, such as penises and bones, are commonly believed to increase sexual potency or cure certain illnesses.   Xinhua quoted a manager at the Shenyang Forest Wildlife Zoo as saying that the carcasses of the dead tigers have been cut up and put in cold storage.   But another unnamed zoo worker said the bones had been used to make tiger-bone liquor that was used to “serve important guests”.   The deaths, which came to light as China celebrates the Lunar Year of the Tiger, have been blamed on a combination of inadequate funding, an unusually cold winter and poor general conditions at the facility, the China Daily said.   Zoo workers fed the tigers cheap chicken bones in recent months as funding dried up. On Sunday, the Shenyang government announced that it had allocated one million dollars to save surviving animals and fund the zoo.   Besides the tigers, 22 other animals have died, including rare species that are protected in China, among them a red-crowned crane, four stump-tailed macaques, and one brown bear.   The Shenyang government has a 15 percent share in the zoo, which is mainly privately owned.   China says it has nearly 6,000 tigers in captivity, but just 50 to 60 are left in the wild, including about 20 wild Siberian tigers.   In the 1980s, China set up tiger farms to try to preserve the big cats, intending to release some into the wild. But conservation groups say the farms are used to harvest ingredients for traditional Chinese medicine.

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The most complete audit of hundreds of years of England's wildlife reveals some of the winners and losers in Somerset.   Natural England's Report, ‘Lost Life: England's Lost and Threatened Species’ identifies nearly 500 animals and plants that have become extinct in England – practically all within the last two centuries.   On top of this, nearly 1,000 native species have been given conservation priority status because of the severity of the threats facing them.   In Somerset the casualties include species like the red squirrel as well as less well known ones like cutgrass and the black veined white butterfly.   The Lost Life report, published today, highlights how habitat loss, inappropriate management, environmental pollution and pressure from non-native species have all played a part in the erosion of England's biodiversity.   All of the major groups of flora and fauna have experienced losses, with butterflies, amphibians, and many plant and other insect species being particularly hard hit – in some groups up to a quarter of species have been become extinct since 1800.   Despite these pressures, conservation efforts have achieved many notable successes in protecting priority species and habitats.   The large blue butterfly has been successfully re-introduced on the Polden Hills and the decline of the greater water parsnip has been halted on the Somerset Levels.   To provide long-term support for our wildlife, Natural England is working with a range of partners in the SW Biodiversity Group to adopt a “landscape-scale” approach to conservation which goes beyond the conservation of small protected sites and individual species and embraces the management of entire landscape areas and the ecosystems that operate within them.   Despite successful conservation interventions losses continue and nationally 943 native species are now classed as of conservation priority while the numbers of several hundred more are in significant decline.   Natural England's regional director for the South-West, Janette Ward, welcomed the report.   She said: “This is a timely reminder of the fragility of life and how quickly species can disappear on our own doorstep, almost without being noticed.   "We can stop this happening and arrest declines but it does need everyone to recognise how important our environment is and to act together to minimise the stresses and strains on it.   "I believe that in the South-West we have every chance achieve this.”

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Blue whale babies weigh up to 7 tonnes at birth.

A female cod can lay up to 9 million eggs.

Snakes can see through their eyelids.

Elephants spend 23 hours a day eating.

Vultures sometimes eat so much they can't take off again.

The Amazon 'Jesus Christ lizard' can run across water.

The biggest Antartic inland animal is a wingless fly measuring about 60 mm long.

Fleas can jump up to 30 cm, twenty times their own body length.

Bluebottle flies can smell meat from distances 7 km away.

Many birds migrate, but the Arctic tern travels furthest. It flies from the Arctic to the Antarctic, and back again, a trip of 32,000 kilometers.

Some animals can regrow parts of their bodies if damaged. Starfish can grow new 'arms.' Slow-worms can regrow broken-off tails. Lizards can grow new tails.

One golden poison-dart frog could kill up to 1500 people with its poison.

The giant squid has the largest eyes of any animal. They can be 39 cm across, which is 16 times wider than a human eye.

The peregrine falcon can spot its prey from more than 8 km away.

The sleepiest mammals are armadillos, sloths and opossums. They spend 80 per cent of their lives sleeping or dozing.

A mayfly only lives one day, but a tortoise can expect to live 100 years.

Stegosaurus was one of the most famous of the dinosaurs and was an impressive 9 metres long. But its brain was the size of a walnut.

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Staff at the Scottish SPCA discovered the female feline outside the Middlebank Wildlife Centre early on Sunday morning.
 
They managed to remove the tin safely, after taking the photo, and are now seeking it's owners.
 
Centre manager Colin Seddon said, "We think it's likely that she was scavenging and came across this discarded tin of cat food.
 
"She may have got the can stuck on her head and then became disorientated - it's lucky she wasn't hit by a car."
 
It is thought the cat may have been dumped outside by someone assuming Middlebank is a rehousing centre for domestic pets.
 
Staff have asked around the area to find out who the cat belongs to but have still to trace the owner.
 
"She is a friendly and well looked after cat and she was wearing a distinctive black collar with bright green cats eyes imprinted on the material," added Mr Seddon.
 
"Because she's in such good condition we'd hope that she's simply lost.
 
"If that is the case then we'd encourage her owner to contact our animal helpline to get their lucky black cat back.
 
"This only illustrates the fact that litter can pose a threat to both wild and domestic animals and we always encourage people to make sure they bag and bin their rubbish, it could save an animal's life."
 
After the can was removed she was checked over before being transferred to the charity's Edinburgh and Lothians Animal Rescue and Rehoming Centre at Balerno, Edinburgh.
 
Anyone with information should contact the Scottish SPCA Animal Helpline on 03000 999 999.
 
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