Hands and Lester - a coupla low income cats... Talk Back!!

Hi, my name is Hands. So-called because I have a thumb. I have long, black hair that keeps me warm in the cold weather- I am an indoor-outdoor boy who has never experienced the passion of love, thanks to the SPCA who didn't want me to multiply. I fight with my housemate Lester, over food, and even though I am younger than him I win the best plate because he pretends to be afraid of me.

Hi, my name is Lester. I am close enough to looking like a Russian Blue to be one. I like to bite and have large incisors. When I am happy from petting I always get a good bite on my petter. I don't hurt them much though. I used to have a grey furred sister but she was murdered by a neighbor's dog.

Now I have "Hands" as a housemate, he loves to take over whatever I have. My plate, my hiding place, anything he thinks will make him dominant.

I used to have a bird friend she helped me when a bad dog bit me and I had an abcess. But sadly, my bird friend flew away and now I must be happy with "Hands" and two gals that also live here.

So talk to us, write to us!! only thing is; for any medical problems please ask your veternarian- after all we are just cats.

its beauty wot killed the beast

STORIES of Animal Resistance-

Dee
Sunday, February 26, 2006;

Gollum the lazy vulture who had to go to flying school
By Stewart Payne

Gollum the idle vulture had no reason to fly. His meals were delivered by hand, so for four years he has simply furled his mighty 6ft wings�and hopped everywhere.

Chocks away: but Gollum still cannot get off the ground

Until yesterday, that is. In what might seem a rather dramatic attempt to make him to do what should have come naturally, his owner took him to a vertical wind tunnel in the hope that a powerful blast of air might awaken a dormant instinct.

Gollum, an African white-backed vulture born in captivity, at first just perched impassively on his owner's outstretched arm. But then some primeval call of the wild reached him. Gollum outstretched his wings and�well, that was about it. Gollum

We have lift-off: Gollum is introduced to the wind tunnel

But for Steve Eales it was a breakthrough. Having tried everything he could think of to get his pet to fly, the wind tunnel was the last-ditch attempt. "He took his entire weight off my arm," he said. "I had to keep hold for his safety, but he was as close to soaring as you can get."

Mr Eales hopes that Gollum's brief flying lesson may be sufficient to encourage him to take to the wing without the need for a second visit to the Airkix wind tunnel at Milton Keynes, Bucks, which is used to train sky divers.

Mr Eales, 43, who runs Hawk on the Wild Side in Milton Keynes, which gives people a chance to get close to birds of prey, said: "Gollum simply never learnt to fly. He knows where his tea is coming from each day and clearly just thinks, 'What do I need to go up there for?' "