BEFORE my op/ed on the news... If you haven't heard about the major dog/cat food recall, you need to get on top of it and make sure that you don't have the stuff in question. On the cat side, it involves almost EVERY brand of wet food - generic, normal, and expensive alike. Only Purina and Science Diet seems to have escaped. It seems that if you bought your food a month or so ago, you should be alright, but it's best to check anyways, because many animals have died and neither the government NOR the manufacturer can figure out what caused it. And it goes without saying, if your animal just isn't quite acting right, don't debate what to do, take the animal to the vet NOW. It's always better safe than sorry, and if something is wrong, the sooner the vets can get to saving your animal's life, the better their chances of succeeding are.
Boy goes missing from campsite
I'm quite curious to know how this boy was able to drift away from the people who were supposed to be watching him. I'd understand a little more if the supervisor had been greatly outnumbered, but this does not appear to be the case. I know kids wander... but they should always be watched, not just because they might walk away and get lost, but more importantly, because there are a lot of predators in the woods who will attack a young child as if it's any other prey. Now if criminal charges are possible, I don't know. But the minimum this person needs to do is apologize to this child's family and help in the effort to find him alive.
Lowlife steals from Irwin's legacy
I don't even know where to start here. I thought Australia was in love with their famous animal crusader - like most of the rest of the cable-tv watching world. So for someone (and it has to be assumed the thief or thieves are likely Australian as smuggling that many animals out of the country would be near impossible) to walk off with that many reptiles from Irwin's zoo, where people work so diligently day in and day out to educate the rest of us, for probably just some money is just incredibly disgusting. I am no expert on Australian law, but I bet they got a special place in their prison system for the offenders - solitary confinement! I hope whoever did this develops a guilty conscience quick and returns the animals before they get sick and/or die.
Teacher's husband kills boy she was sleeping with
We hear the story all the time it seems nowadays - beautiful teacher has affair with young boy. But this time the story takes a twist - her husband kills the young man his wife was sleeping with. Now we're not talking some young boy just out of middle school. We're talking a 17 year old at the time who had to have known what he was doing was wrong. He was hiding it from everyone and only fessed up to his biological Mom because he was using her phone. I'm sure the husband didn't see this situation as much as his wife preying on a boy, I'm sure he saw it more as a man trying to split up his marriage and therefore reacted the way he did. I'm not condoning him shooting the young man, just trying to put some reason to it. Now both the cheating wife and the surely-enraged husband will be spending time behind bars. All because of bad decisions.
Cops checking car doors
Oy vey! Did the police department not consult their lawyers first? They would've surely told them that what they were planning was unconstitutional. If the lawyers didn't, then they're obviously no lawyers at all. If me or anyone else reading this were to do such a thing, no matter how good the intentions, we'd be arrested for breaking and entering, even if we didn't take anything! Would someone please send these police officers back to basic law classes!
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