Button the Dalmatian has given birth to a bumper litter of EIGHTEEN pups!
Button gave birth by Caesarian section on December 23, stunning her owners Adam and Nicola Morley. (
mail)
Button, God bless the poor thing, had all of her puppies at one time.
This, in my opinion, beats:
Michelle Duggar, who delivered a baby girl by Caesarean section on December 19, 2008 at Mercy Medical Center in Rogers, Arkansas. The baby, named Jordyn-Grace Makiya Duggar, is the 18th child for Michelle and her husband Jim Bob.
Jim Bob Duggar is 43, a year older than his wife. Their oldest child, Joshua, is 20.
The other Duggar children, in between Joshua and Jordyn-Grace, are Jana, 18; John-David, 18; Jill, 17; Jessa, 16; Jinger, 14; Joseph, 13; Josiah, 12; Joy-Anna, 11; Jeremiah, 9; Jedidiah, 9; Jason, 8; James, 7; Justin, 6; Jackson, 4; Johannah, 3; and Jennifer, 1. (
AP)
Though expensive metal detectors and armed security officers abound at all United States airports, airways are also turning to simpler measures to protect the approximate 769 million passengers who fly each year.
They employ dogs, whose hunting and herding abilities come as naturally to them as flying does to the birds.
Sky, a 1-year-old Border Collie, routinely frequents the Southwest Florida International Airport to help keep the birds at bay.
Sky helps prevent bird strikes, which can cause major damage to an aircraft. Birds can get sucked into an engine or hit a windshield with enough force to cause a pilot to lose control.
Military bases were the first to utilize dogs to ward off stray birds. The Dover Air Force Base, located in Delaware, has employed dogs to prevent bird strikes since the early 1980s.
Southwest Florida International was the first commercial airport in the nation to pick up the idea nearly 10 years ago.
Source:
zootoo
I just found an excellent photo collection at The Catalyst,
Famous people and their cats, which shows many people you would never have thought of as cat lovers, such as Frank Zappa, Truman Capote, Grace Kelly and John Travolta.
One of my favorites here is:
Jay Leno and his cat
But wait, there's more at
Famous people and their cats, part two! Sean Connery, and David Bowie are also cat lovers. So were John Lennon and Freddie Mercury.
Freddie Mercury and Bohemian Rhapsody
Great work,
Jenny. Hope you can find more of these.
Photo credit: AFP/File/Andrej Isakovic
A species of pink land iguana overlooked by Charles Darwin during his visits to the Galapagos Islands may provide evidence of the ancient animals' diversification in the archipelago, scientists have reported.
Galapagos National Park rangers first stumbled upon the striking land lizard a few decades ago, but this week's study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is the first to officially document the iguana.
Source:
msnbc
Thanks to
Disapproving Rabbits, we finally know what Victoria's Secret really is!
Photo by Jilly Bennett, from
Menton Daily Photo
