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Talkin’ Pets with Jon Patch
Saturday, May 10, 2008.
Jon Patch - Host
Barry Siebold - Animal Trainer/Medical
Advice
Amanda Page - Producer/ Reporter/ Super ?
Special Guest Hour 1 - Bo Bice - 4th
Season Runner-up on American Idol 2005 - New CD: See The Light
Saturday, May 10, the 131st day of 2008.
There are 235 days left in the year.
Celeb's B-Days:
Sportscaster Pat "I put up with John Madden for years" Summerall is 78.
TV-radio personality Gary My star on the Hollywood walk of fame is in between
Walt Disney and Betty White" Owens is 69.
Writer-producer-director Jim "Airplane, Top Secret, Hot Shots and Police
Squad... Bobby's hero" Abrahams is 64.
Rock singer "Im so cool I just get one name" Bono (U2) is 48
Race car driver Helio "wait till you here me pronounce this" Castroneves is 33.
Today
in History:
1774, Louis XVI acceded to the throne of France.
1775, Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys captured the British-held fortress
at Ticonderoga, N.Y.
1869, a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of
the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.
1908, the first Mother's Day observance in the United States, inspired by Anna
Jarvis, took place during church services in Grafton, W.Va., and Philadelphia.
1924, J. Edgar Hoover was given the job of FBI director.
Holidays and Observances:
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY - May 11th - to all the Mom’s worldwide.
Happy Birthday Dad, Joe Patch - May 13th - Rest in Peace.
Headlines:
1.More proof that New Yorkers are insane...
2.
Bright green puppy born in New Orleans - But don't worry, they are sure it has
nothing to do with the chemical spills after Katrina. It also won't melt your
skin when it licks you... really...trust us.
3.
These bees are movin' on up, to the eeeeeast side ♫ To a deeeeeluxe location for
a hiiiiive ♫ Movin' on up to the east side ♫ They finally got a piece of the pie
♫
4.
Like any good hubby, Jocko died fighting for his lady-love...
5.At
least it's good to know that the bears have an affinity for pirates and not
ninjas. Except possibly the bipolar bears.
6. Every
time a space shuttle launches, an Air Force officer mans a control panel
entrusted with the responsibility of asploding it if things go FUBAR...
A New York woman has filed a $100 claim against Norwalk, Conn. saying a family
outing to the Maritime Aquarium was ruined by dog feces.
The woman claims her child's shoes, along with the entire outing, were ruined
when her 1-year-old stepped in dog feces outside the Maritime Garage.
City attorney M. Jeffry Spahr said the official response is that her claim is
denied and, in his words, "poop happens."
Kelly DeBrocky of Mahopac, N.Y., wants the city to reimburse her for $54 she
spent replacing her toddler's ruined shoes and the expenses for parking and
aquarium admission on April 5.
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Animal shelter workers got quite a surprise last week in Louisiana.
One of their dogs gave birth to a bright green puppy.
"It's surprising, alarming to see," Louisiana SPCA CEO Anna Zorrilla said.
"Sometimes, when a puppy is born, the amniotic fluid mixes with the placenta and
dyes the coat of the puppy and it almost always happens to very light colored
puppies."
Zorrilla said the puppy will not be green forever, and will likely turn white or
a light tan color in the next few weeks.
She also said the health of the puppy won't be affected.
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New York police said a beekeeper was called in after a swarm of bees began
forming a hive on top of a newspaper vending machine on the Upper East Side in
NYC.
Police said they received numerous calls from citizens reporting "bumblebees in
a bus shelter," and "bees on the phone booth" near the intersection of East 75th
Street and Second Avenue.
Volunteer beekeeper Jim Fischer of the Bronx Zoo was brought in to contain the
insects using water and a teargas-like "bee-smoker" box.
"It's how they reproduce," he said of the swarm. "Somewhere around here, there's
another hive of bees. This one broke off and followed the queen."
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A keeper at the Greater Vancouver Zoo said it looks like somebody broke into the
monkey cage looking for animals and things went sour.
"We think that they broke in with the intention of probably stealing a monkey or
two, and things went a little bit wacky," said animal care manager Jamie Dorgan.
He said Jocko, the male monkey killed in last night's break-in, was likely
defending his territory and ended up dead. Zoo workers don't yet know how Jocko
was killed, but trauma is the most probable cause, Dorgan said.
Mia, Jocko's female mate, was abducted from the enclosure following the killing.
John Creviston, administrator of Wild Arc - an animal rehabilitation centre,
said the abductor may be hoping to sell Mia to a private buyer.
"Somebody might be thinking there's a market but this is not, I would guess, not
an organized thing."
There is also the possibility that the thief wants Mia as an exotic pet, but
this, Creviston said, would be unadvisable.
"They're a little bit more than most people are able to deal with. Especially
one that's essentially wild."
Dorgan described Jocko as a "friendly guy" who was loved by everybody.
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Polar bears Frosty and Voda
were swimming in snow this morning.
The Denver Zoo introduced them to the shipwreck added to their habitat today as
heavy flakes swirled around the snow-loving pair.
The curious bears were all over the new addition to their home, the zoo said in
a news release, looking for hidden food, climbing on it and playing with the
attached balls and ropes.
"The shipwreck is a great way to stimulate natural behaviors in the bears," said
Emily Insalaco, the Denver Zoo's manager of behavior programs. "We have seen
more of some behaviors, such as foraging for food, digging and manipulating
objects, but we have also seen more variety of behaviors, including vocalizing
and a bouncing behavior that we usually only see them do on ice or with favorite
toys."
One of the behaviors zookeepers were hoping to see is an ice-breaking behavior:
In the wild, polar bears must push up and down with their front paws to break
through ice and get to the food underneath. The zoo bears have shown this
behavior several times on the shipwreck.
The male, Frosty, and female, Voda, have been joined on the shipwreck by Olaf, a
male, and Soosha, a female.
The zoo said the $23,000 ship was assembled over days in the polar-bear habitat.
It is made of steel and all-natural woods and finishes.
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Each time the space shuttle rises from its launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., an
Air Force officer waits anxiously for the first 2 minutes to pass safely. If the
spaceship were to veer off course and endanger a populated area, this range
safety officer would bear the terrible responsibility of flipping a pair of
switches under a stenciled panel reading “Flight Termination.” The first switch
arms explosives on the shuttle’s two solid rocket boosters. Flipping the second
switch would detonate them, destroying the shuttle and crew.
“If something happens when it’s just off the pad, there’s only a couple of
seconds [to react],” says Bryan O’Connor, a former shuttle commander and NASA’s
chief of safety and mission assurance.
But the danger continues as the craft streaks upward. If a spaceship’s flight
controls or engines malfunction, toxic fuel and fast-moving debris could
threaten people below. After about 2 minutes, the spent solid rocket boosters
drop away, taking the charges with them. After that, problems severe enough to
threaten people on the ground would leave the crew with two options: Enter orbit
and fly around the Earth for a landing at California’s Edwards Air Force Base,
or steer into the ocean. Ditching at sea would be extremely dangerous—astronauts
would need to exit the ship at 20,000 ft., without the benefit of ejection
seats. “After Challenger, we installed parachutes, survival suits and individual
rafts, as well as an extendable pole used to clear the escapees from the wing
when they exit the hatch [while in flight],” O’Connor says. NASA’s next space
vehicles will include a rocket-powered escape pod for launch emergencies.
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