Animals do the darnedest things: mew institute
| August 17, 2009 | 2:01 PM
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Education apparently has come a fur way. But not necessarily in the right direction.
A cat has earned a high school diploma — well, sort of.
The Better Business Bureau of Central Georgia used a cat named Oreo in an experiment to expose online diploma mills. The Internet is littered with them.
The bureau didn’t have to look far to find its feline undercover operative — the president rescued Oreo from a ditch as a kitten.
The 2-year-old tuxedo cat got within a whisker’s breadth of a purrfect score on an online test by one suspected diploma mill. She also earned credits for a life-experience essay about the way she clawed her way up from her humbling beginnings in the ditch. Bet that had someone at the diploma factory shedding a few tears, if they even bothered to read it.
That “work,” and coughing up a $200 fee, got Oreo a diploma — all while merely sitting on her owner’s lap at the computer, of course.
It’s enough to give you paws.
Read more at msnbc.com.
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More tales of animals doing the darnedest things:
- Speaking of cats, workers at an Alaska junkyard say a well-placed tire saved two kittens from harm when the pickup truck they were living in was sent to the crusher. Read more at adn.com.
- Moving on to dogs, lawn-mower-riding Shih Tzu is turning heads in Ohio. Read more at news.cincinnati.com.
- In Australia, officials say that swine flu won’t stop the pig diving and pig racing shows from going on at the Royal Adelaide Show, Sept. 4 through 12. Read more at upi.com.
- In Thailand, an elephant that lost a leg to a land mine has been fitted with a state-of-the-art artificial one. Read more at London’s Daily Mail.
- In Costa Rica, a man has an unlikely friend and swimming buddy — a giant crocodile named Pocho. Read more at London’s Daily Mail.
- In Florida, 18-inch catfish from the Amazon are being turned loose in swimming pools at foreclosed homes in an attempt to clean the stagnant water. Read more at palmbeachpost.com.
- Millions of salmon have mysteriously disappeared from a river in Canada. Read more at abc.net.au.
- In Nova Scotia, the animal rights group PETA has asked a fisherman to spare a giant lobster believed to be more than 100 years old. Read more at The Canadian Press.
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