Our local paper has a couple of stories about animals.

An Erie Colorado woman was puttering around her front yard Wednesday when she spotted a black-and-white tomcat with his head lodged in a decorative cast-iron pipe.
The homeowner called Boulder County animal control officers, who called firefighters as the community rallied to free the feline.
Despite using vegetable oil and soap to lubricate the cat's head and neck, they were unable to dislodge the tomcat. Firefighters feared they might hurt the cat if they used rescue tools to sever the pipe, Sporrer said.

"They couldn't get the cat free, so they brought the whole works -- the cat and the pipe -- to the Humane Society of Boulder Valley," she said.
But on the way there, animal control officers realized the cat wasn't alone in the pipe.
"They realized something was flopping around in the back of the truck, and it was a rabbit," Sporrer said.
"So, apparently the cat was chasing a rabbit and got its head stuck into the pipe," she said.

Nobody knows why the bunny didn't bolt out the other end of the pipe.
"How that rabbit stayed in the pipe after it was picked up and carried and put in the truck, I just don’t know … Unless the cat had a grip on it," Sporrer said.

The cat, however, was still stuck.
"We had to give him anesthesia to make him calm enough to remove him from the pipe," Sporrer said.
After some gentle twists and turns of the kitty's head, the stunned and sedated cat was free.
"He has some pretty bad scrapes on his head and face," Sporrer said.
"So far it's a happy ending. We're hoping the kitty continues to improve in our care," she said.
The cat didn't have a collar or tags, so shelter officials aren't sure if he belongs to someone or is a feral cat, Sporrer said."

In another story, a man was hiking with his dog and it got lost. He camped out there that night hoping it would come to him, but it didn't. The next night the dog came in the doggy door and without waking the family up, just laid down next to the bed and went to sleep - he traveled 20 miles to get home.

This reminds me of when my sister lost her bulldog mix Snort in the Santa Fe, New Mexico area when she and her husband were camping out. It was kind of a Hansel and Gretl situation because she didn't necessarily want Snort back. My sister is a cold bitch, but that's another story. So a few weeks later someone calls and they'd found Snort out there in the woods so she had to go get him, a five and a half hour drive one way from her home in Colorado Springs. She didn't keep Snort for long after that, she returned him to the pound and bought a purebred English Bulldog for $600. I warned you: she really is cold. Hate to think of what kind of a parent she would have been if she'd ever had kids.