Superheroes in furry packages
Kayla Kleine shared security camera footage (below) from her West Vancouver home showing the moment a bear wandered into the house Monday while she had the door propped open for air circulation during high heat. The footage shows the bear investigating the home’s TV before raiding the breakfast Kleine had put out for her dog, Scout. Seconds later, Scout comes running out from a side room and chases the bear while barking. “He came sprinting around the corner, and I just saw the bear running out of our kitchen and he chased it out of the house.” She said Scout chased the bear through the yard until the much larger animal vaulted over a fence.
Kleine said Scout was apparently upset at the bear for eating his breakfast. “I was surprised but he’s also scary when he’s mad so I could see him going full speed at the bear.” Kleine said. Kleine praised Scout, who was not injured during the encounter. “He’s the best. He’s super cuddly and affectionate but he’s really feisty and really protective of me and my husband,” she said. She was also amazed because Scout is a 6 pound Pomeranian.
Meanwhile the feline hero
Cynthia Kootz is calling her house cat a hero for protecting her family from a man trying to break into her home on the Indianapolis southeast side. It happened early Wednesday morning on Finley Avenue near Walker Avenue. Cynthia told police she was watching television in her living room when she heard someone at her front door. It was around 12:30 a.m. when Kootz said she heard a man at her front door. “Well, I got up and it was a bald-headed man, and I never seen him before in my life, wanting in,” she said. “I said ‘No you’re not going to get in here’; ‘Well, I got to get in, they’re trying to kill me’ [he said]. I said, ‘I don’t care; how I know you’re not going to knock me in the head?’” Kootz said the man began kicking and screaming. “I tried to call the police at first, but they put me on hold, and I said, ‘Well this ain’t going to work,’” she said. “Well, then the guy says, ‘Well I’m getting in whether anybody likes it or not,’ Cynthia said the man pushed open the screen window and reached for the door handle. “Binky went after him, and I think Binky just bit him once then because Binky turned around and ran off,” she said. “Well, I thought he ran into the house.” But Binky, who is declawed, didn’t go very far. Kootz said the man tried reaching for the door handle again. “Well, next thing I knew Binky took off again, and this time he locked on and tore the guy’s hand and arm up,” he said. “This time he held onto that guy; all I seen was fur going up.”
Police arrived on scene and arrested 41-year-old Earl Scruggs. “They’ve been on the hunt for him for the past hour, going through the neighborhood trying to get into other people’s houses,” she said. According to court records, the suspect was charged with residential entry, a level 6 felony. Kootz said police had to call for an ambulance because of his injuries.
Saved by the furry …
A blonde was visiting the zoo and reached the big cat exhibit.
“I wonder what these tigers would say if they could talk,” she said to the man next to her.
He replied, “I’m pretty sure they’d say, ‘We are leopards.'”
My wife asked me if I’d seen the cat bowl.
I said I didn’t know he could.
A cat walks into a bar.
The bartender asks, “What’ll you have?”
The cat says, “A shot of rum.”
The bartender pours the cat his drink.
The cat slowly pushes the shot off the table.
Then asks, “Another.”
Mrs. Brown: Oh, my dear, I have lost my precious little dog!
Mrs. Smith: But you must put an advertisement in the papers!
Mrs. Brown: It’s no use, my little dog can’t read.
August 14th Birthdays
1968 – Halle Barry, 1969 – Catherine Bell, 1997 – Briana Hildebrand, 1960 – Sarah Brightman
1959 – Magic Johnson, 1950 – Gary Larson, 1945 – Steve Martin, 1941 – David Crosby