Heidi Stevenson walked onto her porch in Minnesota to find a 300-pound black bear sitting on the deck furniture and calmly licking bird seed from a feeder.
“It looked at me and kept feeding,” said Heidi of Stillwater. When the beast finished eating, it nonchalantly got up and wandered back into the woods.
Ravenous rabbits have infested Chicago’s famous Grant Park and are ripping apart the lawns and bushes and gnawing the bark from trees.
“They’re like miniature bison,” said Joel Brown, a University of Illinois biology teacher.
Officials have relocated 100 of the critters in a bid to contain the problem – but since rabbits multiply like, well, rabbits, authorities still have an ever-growing bunny colony on their hands.
A cat named Cecil was locked inside an abandoned Louisiana house for two months without food or water – and survived.
Officials in Monroe say Cecil was “nothing but skin and bones” when rescuers finally broke in and found him hiding under a chair. Explaining how Cecil survived, veterinarian Dr. Clark Cooper said, “He would have had to have been one fat son-of-gun to start with.”
A Michigan lingerie-store has gotten even with town officials who ignored his pleas to replace a dead tree outside his shop – by hanging 50 frilly brassieres from its limbs.
Embarrassed politicians in Royal Oak, Mich., now say they’ll immediately remedy the situation outside Keith Howarth’s business. Meanwhile, pedestrians are getting a kick out of the controversy.
“I’m trying to think which one I’d fit,” said Kate Ward, 24. “They all look relatively small.”
A German shrink has established herself as the world’s first psychologist for chickens.
Dr. Barbara Luetzeler of Bonn says one of her patients was a hen, Lucie, who always wanted to be a cock and “was so dissatisfied, she’d drive everybody out of her territory, even the cat.”
Eventually, Lucie settled into her masculine role and even managed a crow, which “initially sounded a little hoarse, but very proud,” she said.