A Belgium woman climbed into a cheetah cage in a zoo in Brussels and was mauled to death by the cheetahs.

In what has to be one of the dumbest quotations I have ever heard about animal behavior, a zoo spokesperson said

"Karen loved animals. Unfortunately the cheetahs betrayed her trust," he said.

Er, what?  Since when did the cheetahs 'betray' her?  The cheetahs did exactly what a cheetah is going to do in the wild--kill a prey animal.  How is that a betrayal?  As far as I know, no cheetah has ever signed a contract to the do the opposite. 

Not to say I don't feel sorry for the woman or her family, but she took a bad risk when deciding cheetahs were big kitty cats, not wild animals.

A sh*t-for-brains monster chopped the head off of a kitten and sent it his ex-girlfriend with a card saying "I Love You, Your Ben".  Yeah, nothing says love like a chopped off kitty head.  What a freak.

Houston SPCA has seized 26 pit bull dogs, some with wounds they believe came from illegal dogfighting (of course, all dogfighting in Texas is illegal--but some idjits just can't seem to figure that out for themselves...).

Unfortunately, there were no arrests in the case.....yet.  I, for one, would love to see these idiots who train dogs to fight to be put in a pen with fighting pits while the idiot is wearing one of those suits that the cops use in training just so they can see how terrifying it is to be attacked by a dog (meaning I don't want the trainers hurt, just very scared).  When I see the remains of the dogs some of these monsters use as bait to train their fighting dogs, I don't want the dog fight trainers to get a suit....

Of course, no matter what happens now, there will be no good outcome for the adult dogs.  They can't be saved--they are a danger to all other dogs, all other animals, and humans.  But at least they can be saved from further pain and suffering in an arena.

A Florida wildlife techician says that he logged two hermaphodite deer in two days--and he has only logged a total of three in all the 27 years that he has been logging deer.

Though deer are not an indicator species, it is odd that there are two of these very rare malformations shot in a very short period of time.  Certain indicator species, like frogs, show these types of changes when there are significant environmental pressures (such as sewage and farm runoff into their grow ponds).  Could mammals in Florida be showing these changes too?