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‘Bing has always been a cat that wanders. He has gone off several times before and sometimes it was up to a year.’
Police were called to the scene this morning following reports that three dogs were running loose.
He was found just 15 minutes away from home.
Genetic sequencing revealed the kitten had contracted a rare raccoon strain – triggering an emergency response.
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A confused border collie attempted to herd a giant sheep statue after thinking it was part of her flock.
Daisy, a two-year-old sheep dog in training, was on a walk with owner Paul Flynn, 60, when she spotted the 25ft light-up sculpture.
She started barking at the fake sheep, which has been installed as part of Durham’s Lumiere light festival, before deciding it needed to be rounded up and taken home.
Paul said: ‘She’s a really fun dog who always has a little bit of a play.
‘We enjoy the walk in together and she can walk all the way through Durham city centre off the lead.
‘She’s a sheep dog in training so she’s still not there yet but I just told her to go up to it.
‘She sorta run past it and I could see she was a bit worried about it and I wanted her to get over that and realise it was something that’s plastic.
Daisy, a two-year-old Border Collie, was on a walk with her owner Paul Flynn, 60, in Durham, County Durham, when she spotted the massive statue (Picture: Paul Flynn/SWNS)
‘She then had a go at herding it which was kinda funny so I encouraged it further.’
They were on their way to East Durham College’s Houghall campus when she tried to round up the sheep – which is where Paul works as director of commercial farming.
When they were on their way home from work, Daisy attempted to herd the statue for the second time.
Paul said: ‘We came back that night and there was a really good crowd of people around the sheep, because it was lit up.
‘So I let her go and say hi to the sheep and give it a good barking at, but this time she was on the lead.
‘There was people there, including young children and families, so I let her say hello to it.
When they were on their way home from work, Daisy attempted to herd the statue for the second time (Picture:SWNS)
‘But someone did say turn around and say it’s made their day because they saw a Collie barking at the sheep.’
Paul often takes Daisy to work where she is looked after by the college’s animal management students.
He added that everyone who he sees when he’s on his way to work, loves to ‘cuddle and pet’ her.
Paul, of Clara Vale, Tyne and Wear, said: ‘She’s a much loved dog by everyone that I see in the morning.
‘She loves to be cuddled and petted by people and she knows that people will want to.
‘She’s always looking for that chance to say hello to people and make new friends.’
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Nicola Bradley and Tracy Dixon snapped their friend’s parrot’s neck (Picture: UK Animal Cruelty Files)
Two women who went to a friend’s house after a boozy night out and tortured and killed his pet parrot will face prison.
Nicola Bradley, 35, and Tracy Dixon, 47, doused Paul Crooks’s beloved African grey parrot Sparky in cleaning products and put her in a tumble drier before breaking her neck.
Bradley and Dixon had stayed the night at Mr Crooks’s home after he collected them from the city centre after they’d been on a night out.
But while he was out they tortured the poor bird, covering Sparky in shaving foam and Mr Muscle and throwing her in a tumble drier before eventually snapping her neck.
Dixon and Bradley both blamed each other for what happened, but after appearing at Carlisle magistrates court they were both found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal.
Mr Crooks found Sparky dead shortly after Bradley and Dixon left his home on the morning of July 30 last year.
He said Sparky was a gift from a former partner and had lived with him for five years.
Describing the parrot, he told the court: ‘Sparky was absolutely fine.
‘She used to sing a regimental march, combined with God Save the Queen, and the Coronation Street and Emmerdale theme tunes.
‘She was also a hit with friends as she’d start singing when I talked to them on video calls around the world.’
He told the court Dixon called him at 5.30am on the morning in question as they couldn’t get a taxi home from a night out.
He gave them a lift, but went to bed shortly after bringing the women home because he’d been working all week.
When he woke at 8.30am and went to the kitchen to make a coffee, Bradley told him he would be ‘foaming’ with them as she looked towards Sparky’s cage.
He saw there was shaving foam on both the cage and the bird, and when he began cleaning away the shaving foam Bradley picked up a bottle of Mr Muscle to help him.
Mr Crooks told her that was the wrong spray, telling her to use a water spray.
Returning to the kitchen later, he saw Bradley had a spoon with black paint on it.
Mr Crooks went to a local shop, returning half an hour later to see both women leaving his home.
Entering the house, he saw feathers on the living room floor and more in the kitchen, but couldn’t see Sparky.
When he found her, he described her as a ‘wet, black mess’.
He said: ‘I looked on top of the fridge freezer and on top of the kitchen unit but I couldn’t see Sparky.
‘Then I looked at her cage and noticed this unrecognisable mess, with her head hanging out of the cage.
‘She was just unrecognisable, covered in black substances. I started to panic.
‘I didn’t know what to do.’
Bradley and Dixon, who were granted bail, will be sentenced on August 22 at Carlisle crown court where magistrates warned they would face prison sentences.
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