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Cat Missing 5 Years Turns Up on Offshore Oil Rig

Dexter has been returned home to Scotland

(Newser) - A missing cat turned up in the most impossible-seeming of places: on an offshore oil rig in the North Sea. How the cat—whose microchip revealed him to be named Dexter and who had been missing for five years—ended up off the coast of Scotland is only partly a...

Sheepdog Hates New Job, Treks 240 Miles Back Home

Family members scratching their heads as to how Pero made the journey

(Newser) - A sheepdog sent away by its Welsh owners to work on a farm in Cumbria didn't like his new assignment and ended up back at his original home—after apparently making the 240-mile trek back on his own, the Guardian reports. Pero made a run for it on April...

Dog Reunited With Owner After 53 Days in Wild

Barbara Bagley overjoyed to have Dooley back

(Newser) - If you just can't take any more of this today, here's a bittersweet story to warm your heart: After surviving for 53 days in the Nevada desert, a Shetland sheepdog named Dooley was reunited with his loving owner last month. Dooley ran from a Dec. 27 car accident...

Jack the Lost JFK Cat Dies
 Jack the Lost JFK Cat Dies 
Nov 7, 2011 12:20 AM CST

Jack the Lost JFK Cat Dies

He succumbs to wounds after 61 days missing at airport

(Newser) - Jack the heart-stealing cat who was lost—then found after 61 days —at JFK Airport has died. “It is with tears that I must tell you that Jack has gone over the rainbow bridge,” reads a statement posted on a Facebook page launched in his honor. The...

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