PARIS — The Attorney General’s Office has formally stepped into an Oxford County civil battle over trust funds left by Barbara Thorpe to provide “shelter, food and health care for abandoned and unwanted cats in the town of Dixfield.” Thorpe, who died in 2002, left the bulk of her $200,000 estate in her last will […]
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Deadline extended for defendants to answer cat caretakers’ civil complaint
PARIS — An Oxford County Superior Court justice has granted defendants’ motion for more time to answer a civil complaint seeking to disburse more than $151,000 in cash to the care of the abandoned and unwanted cats of Dixfield. The defendants in the case are Rumford attorney David Austin, and Gertrude Crosby, Bentley Crosby and […]
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Animal Tales: When walking the dog means walking the cat
AUBURN — At least twice a day, Kristine Wilson strolls through her Auburn neighborhood, her dog, Skylar, straining at her leash to sniff newly empty trashcans or peek over a neighbor’s rock wall. And Buddy Kat trots along beside them. “This neighborhood is so great — everybody’s got dogs,” Wilson said. “Well, not everybody, but […]
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Animal Tales: Building homes for feral felines
NEW GLOUCESTER — Angela Cheetham builds houses. For cats. They’re not grand — a plastic tote within a plastic tote, filled with straw and insulated with scrap pieces of foam board, a cutout for a door — but for feral cats around Maine, they’re as good as mansions. “It gives them a chance to have […]
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Amazing Acro-Cats have impurrfect start in circus
Fifteen circus cats were stuck on a bus — and they had a performance in two hours. “Jax is like, ‘I’ve got this.’ No you don’t, Jax,” said circus owner Samantha Martin, fending off Jax’s paws as she fed keys through a tiny bus window to a human also trapped inside. Even on a good night, […]
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Van with puppies, cats headed to Lewiston overturns on I-95
A van carrying dozens of puppies and cats overturned on Interstate 95 in Portsmouth on Thursday: http://wmur.tv/6182hJk6Photos from the scene: http://wmur.tv/6183hJkB Posted by WMUR-TV on Thursday, May 28, 2015 PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — An animal shelter volunteer sustained minor injuries when a van carrying dozens of puppies and cats overturned on Interstate 95 in New Hampshire […]
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A life preserved in pictures: Nettie Cummings Maxim
More than a century ago, a Bethel farm girl who rarely traveled more than a few miles from her home acquired a camera, found her artistic calling and created an exceptional body of work. Her photography survives today as a testament to her creativity and talent and as an invaluable historic record of her life […]
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Harrison town manager embattled in cat feud defends comments
HARRISON — Embattled Town Manager George “Bud” Finch defended comments he made earlier this week suggesting he was indifferent to animal welfare as taken out out of context by the media. A story from WGME 13, which ran in the Bangor Daily News on Friday, quoted an animal welfare advocate who said Finch told her that […]
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Cat neutered with rubber band, abandoned
LEWISTON — Officials say a local animal shelter is caring for a cat that someone tried to neuter with a rubber band and then abandoned in a vacant apartment. The Greater Androscoggin Humane Society received the cat from a Lewiston landlord Tuesday evening, just before closing. Shelter Manager Zach Black said the landlord found the […]