The mysterious mewing in Vickie Mendenhall’s home started about the time she bought a used couch for $27.
After days of searching for the source of the noise, the Spokane, Wash., woman found a very hungry calico cat living in her sofa.
Her boyfriend, Chris Lund, felt something move inside the couch. He lifted it up and there was the cat, which apparently crawled through a hole on the underside.
Bob Killion claimed the cat on Thursday after an acquaintance alerted him to a TV story about it. Killion had donated a couch to charity on Feb. 19, and his 9-year-old cat, Callie, disappeared about the same time.
6 Number of times U.S. newspapers and magazines used the term “trillion dollars” in March 1980.
1,400 Number of times they are on pace to use the term this month. (based on figures from the news archive Nexis)
Inmates kept busy by clipping their way out
“Idle hands are the Devil’s tools.” That was how a Saskatchewan government report summarized last year’s escape of six high-risk prisoners from a Saskatchewan jail.
The inmates escaped last summer after spending four months chipping a path to freedom with nail clippers and other makeshift tools, according to a government report released on Thursday.
The report said the inmates had little to do in the prison and “they tend to gravitate toward doing whatever they can get away with.”
Even monkeys teach their young to floss
The BBC reports that female monkeys in Thailand have been observed showing their young how to floss their teeth.
Researchers from Japan said they watched seven long-tailed macaques cleaning the spaces between their teeth in the same manner as humans.
They spent double the amount of time flossing when they were being watched by their infants.
This suggests the mothers were deliberately teaching their young how to floss, professor Nobuo Masataka of Kyoto University’s Primate Research Institute, said.
