PORTLAND — The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday unanimously upheld the conviction of a Franklin County woman on the civil violation of cruelty to animals. Justices, for the first time, considered and rejected a challenge to the law for vagueness. In January 2012, 26 cats were seized from the home of Julia Peck, 58, […]
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Why do Mainers like to Google cat pictures and Lord of the Dance?
File this under “At least we’re not Texas. Or Georgia.” The real estate blog Estately ran what it called “hundreds of search queries through Google Trends to determine which words, terms, and questions each state was searching for more than any other.” And we Mainers seem strangely enamored with Michael Flatley’s “Lord of the Dance.” That ranked […]
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Most kittens taken to shelters will be killed
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (AP) — Wild kittens that will number in the tens of millions this year are starting to be born, and overtaxed shelters will be forced to euthanize most of the millions they receive. It is a grim reality a leading advocate calls “one of the last major problems” plaguing the animal welfare […]
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K. Smith: Stop blaming the animals
The story about the cat that “attacked” the family in Oregon was irresponsibly one-sided (March 12). The child pulled the cat’s tail. The cat is an animal and will respond. And I would probably be safe in saying that was far from the first time it happened. The adults in that household need to take […]
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Dog owner cited in cat deaths
PHILLIPS — A local woman was issued a summons on a civil violation of having a dog at large that killed several cats, Colt Sleaster, a Franklin County sheriff’s deputy, said Friday. A woman from the Reed’s Mill Road area in Phillips reported a dog killed her cats on Thursday. Sleaster investigated and tracked down […]
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Mount Desert police investigate cat corpses found in freezer
MOUNT DESERT — Police are investigating a case in which several dead cats were found in a freezer in a vacated apartment on Main Street in the local village of Northeast Harbor. Mount Desert police Officer Leigh Guildford declined Tuesday night to say specifically how many dead cats were found in the freezer but did […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: On the prowl for purrfection
The Internet: 10 percent information, 10 percent shopping. Eighty percent cat videos. We’re pretty certain that’s the precise breakdown. Someone’s probably done a study to confirm this, but we’re too busy watching Maru, Keyboard Cat and Grumpy Cat right now to find it. So you’ll just have to trust us. (Or try Googling “cat videos,” […]