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Tsunami Update: Cat Island Persists!

The tragic earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck Japan on March 11 displaced thousands of people, destroyed countless families, and left a bitter nuclear disaster that still plagues the people of Japan. Thankfully, one thing they weren’t able to do is wipe out Tashirojima, better known as ‘Cat Island.’

Situated in Ishinomaki City, Japan, Cat Island is essentially an island in an island that houses about 100 elderly people, many of whom believe that filling a cat’s tummy can and will bring great wealth and good luck. As such, Cat Island is teeming with tens and thousands of stray cats. And as you can imagine, dogs aren’t allowed!

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Cat rescued after three-day ordeal

The desperate cries of a tomcat stuck up a tree for three days led to a full-scale rescue operation in Palmerston North.

Fire officer Austin Pomana risked razor-sharp claws yesterday as he scaled a two-storey high phoenix palm tree – much to the relief of animal-loving students from neighbouring Our Lady of Lourdes School.

The feline saga began on Saturday when city resident Kathryn McKenzie heard cat meows coming from her tree near Botanical Rd.

"It had just been crying all night and all day," she said. "It just seems cruel to leave it up there to die."

She called the Palmerston North Fire Brigade on Saturday, but the cat was left for a couple of days to see if it would clamber down in its own time. However, the cries were getting more desperate yesterday. After a visit from the SPCA, the Fire Service was called to action.

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Cats Are a Bird’s No. 1 Enemy

While public attention has focused on wind turbines as a menace to birds, a new study shows that a far greater threat may be posed by a more familiar antagonist: the pet house cat.

A new study in The Journal of Ornithology on the mortality of baby gray catbirds in the Washington suburbs found that cats were the No. 1 killer in the area, by a large margin.

Nearly 80 percent of the birds were killed by predators, and cats were responsible for 47 percent of those deaths, according to the researchers, from the Smithsonian Institution and Towson University in Maryland. Death rates were particularly high in neighborhoods with large cat populations.

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