Think your house is a zoo? Try visiting Nancy Champagne’s mobile home.
Maine officials found 75 dogs, 17 birds and three chickens in residence.
Champagne, whom police escorted from the home, is due in court for a hearing on whether animal-welfare officials will take permanent possession of the animals.
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What slithers and goes around comes around.
A frightened but cruel woman in Bowie County, Texas, found a snake in her yard and had her son set it afire, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Bad idea. The snake fled in agony into a brush pile — which ignited and burned her house down.
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First it was locusts blanketing the skies in Israel this month. Then thousands of dead pigs turned up in Chinese rivers. Now it’s prawns on a Chilean beach.
Millions of dead red prawns covered the entire two-mile-long beach in Coronel, in southern Chile, in a mysterious mass die-off.
The local power company, which uses seawater as a coolant, denied responsibility.
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A book offering advice on how to protect your chickens from goblins has won the Oddest Book Title of the Year Award, organizers in London said yesterday.
“Goblin-proofing One’s Chicken Coop” won the most online votes, beating out such bestsellers as “How Tea Cosies Changed the World,” “Was Hitler Ill?” and “God’s Doodle: The Life and Times of the Penis.”
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Oh, bother.
Britain’s World Pooh Sticks Championship has been canceled due to weeks of heavy rain.
The competition is based on a game played by Winnie the Pooh in which contestants throw a stick over the upstream side of a bridge to see whose stick appears first on the downstream side.
It had been held regularly for 30 years, but the 2013 version, set for tomorrow in Oxfordshire, had to be called off.