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That's one way to get revenge…Emily VanCamp may have to steal this idea!

Bob Furnad was feeling particularly irked by his neighbors and decided to leave them with a gift.

Tags: bob furnad, cnn, dog, mailbox, neighbor, poop, revenge, wacky

Cat Host Fight!

On her CNN talk show Joy Behar said her 12-year-old tabby should replace TV icon, Regis Philbin, when he leaves his post on Regis & Kelly later this year.

She described her cat saying,

"My cat has a casual air about him, like Regis Philbin. He's kind of a cool cat. When he wants something, like if you're lying down in bed, he'll just jump on your chest and start to purr and just sit there indefinitely until you get up and get it."

We think Joy might really like to see a cat host show. You'd have to genuinely enjoy animals to donate as much time and energy on animal charities as she does.

"Anytime anybody asks me to do something for animals, I find the time to do it. I just feel that they have no way of speaking – animals can do [amazing things]."

We agree, animals are incredable. Maybe Joy should consider letting a dog replace Elizabeth on The View?
JK!

[Image via WENN.]

Tags: adopt, aspca, cat, cnn, dog, shelter, silly, talk show, the view

Unfortunately, scientists are still baffled by the unusual amount of bottlenose dolphins washing up on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico.

Between February and April, 406 dolphins were found either stranded or reported dead offshore!

So sad!

At first, Marine scientists were debating whether last year's massive oil spill or the winter cold snap were to blame.

However, the shocking increase in occurrences has prompted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to designate these deaths as an "unusual mortality event" or UME.

Not only are a large number of dolphins washing on shore, but most of them are very young.

Despite the oil spills traumatic effects on the marine environment in the gulf, investigating officials think the dolphin deaths may be completely independent from the oil spill and are looking "at the gamut of all the possibilities."

Even with 15 dolphin carasses washing up with oil on them since the spill, NOAA Fisheries Stranding Program Coordinator Dr. Teri Rowles said:

"We are looking at what is the impact of the oil spill and the response activities to the oil spill event, and what impact they had on the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem. We did not say that the dolphins have died because of the oil, just that they have come back with oil on them."

Let's hope they find out what is killing these dolphins and can possibly use the information to prevent further dolphin deaths.

[Image via AP Images.]

Tags: cnn, deaths, environment, gulf, killing, massive, mexico, scientists, winter

The clever cobra that escaped the Bronx Zoo and inspired a media frenzy has finally gotten a name to match it's reputation.

Mia!

The 20-inch Egyptian cobra, which went missing on March 24th, but has since been found in the zoo's Reptile House, was named after a play on the words, "Missing In Action".

That's clever! We hope they name one of her offspring Chuck Norris too.

Tags: cnn, cobra, escape, missing, offspring

And the People's Choice for Best Zookeeper goes to….

Staff was alerted Saturday that the adolescent Egyptian cobra was missing from an off-exhibit enclosure, according to a statement from the zoo. Staff members closed and secured the reptile house.

Zoo officials said they are confident the 20-inch-long snake is contained in a nonpublic, isolated area of the building.

We say skip the zoo, this week, (We hear there's a Real Housewives marathon on anyway).

Tags: alert, cnn, egypt, hide your kids hide your wife, missing, real housewives, snake, zoo, zookeeper

Captain George Pollard Jr.'s Two Brothers whaling boat that sunk February 11, 1823 has been discovered off the coast of Hawaii.

The whaler's earlier excursion into the sea on the whaling vessel The Essex was the inspiration for the American classic Moby Dick after it was rammed and sunk by a sperm whale.

Pollard and his surviving crew were lost at sea in 3 small boats for two months and even resorted to canibalism before being rescued.

The determined whaler from Nantucket, Massachusetts, the birthplace of America's whaling industry, returned to the sea aboard Two Brothers which sunk after hitting a shallow reef near Hawaii.

Luckily, the captain and his boys were only in the ocean for a day before being rescued for a second time.

Maritime heritage archaeologists, working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, found the legendary whaler's Two Brothers shipwreck nearly 600 miles northwest of Honolulu.

In statement, the agency said:

"This rare archaeological discovery is the first discovery of a wrecked whaling ship from Nantucket, Mass., the birthplace of America's whaling industry."

Expeditions to the bottom of the sea yielded such artifacts as the large anchor of the ship, harpoon tips, cast-iron pots for melting whale blubber, and remains of the ships rigging.

Although the whale won in 1820 when encountering the whalers aboard the Essex, these creatures no longer have the tactical advantage and are being hunted and killed to the point of extinction.

So sad.

[Image via CNN.]

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Aw! Here's some sad news.

Pilots flying over shallow water near the coast of the Hawaiian island Kauai spotted an injured humpback whale on Monday.

Reports say the whale has a broken back probably as a result of being struck by a large ship or boat.

Flight instructor Gerry Charlebois, who snapped the picture above, said:

"He wasn't moving his fluke and was just staying near the surface and sort of limping down the coast. It's kind of sad to see a full adult whale in that condition. … It's definitely something he's not recovering from."

Aww! Poor whale!

Charlebois continued to describe the the disturbing sight, saying:

"It was freaky. The whale was bent in half. Obviously some kind of blunt force trauma on the side. The poor guy was in trouble."

Even sadder is that there is no established method for euthanizing a large whale and large whales tend to die slowly.

The most likely scenario for this whale's future is sinking to the bottom of the ocean until decomposition gases make it float to the surface, where the corpse will attract large numbers of hungry sharks.

Gross!

"You don't want to be snorkeling around there. You don't want to be in that neighborhood," Charlebois added.

We'll take his advice.

[Image via CNN.]

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