Surfing mice and lovelorn pooches brighten up 2005

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 8:25 am

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051230/od_nm/odd_mice_dc

By Paul Majendie

Fri Dec 30, 9:07 AM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - Dogs went woof over a Brazilian puppy love motel, an Australian trained mice to surf the waves and an Indian village married off toads in bid for rain.

In the world of the weird and wacky, the animal kingdom was the big winner in 2005.

It handsomely defeated incompetent thieves and misplaced corpses to take the prize for the year's most bizarre headlines.

A love motel for dogs in Sao Paulo proved a big hit with amorous Brazilian pooches, offering a heart-shaped mirror on the ceiling and headboards resembling doggy bones.

Shane Willmott trained his three mice -- Harry, Chopsticks and Bunsen -- to enjoy Australia's favorite sport with special mouse-size surf boards. He even dyed their fur so he could spot them among the crashing white waves.

Two giant toads were married in a traditional Hindu ceremony in eastern India by villagers hoping to please the rain gods and end a dry spell.

Peruvian officials saved 4,000 frogs from the cocktail blender after they were found hidden in an abattoir. In the Andes, frog cocktails are popular because of their supposed aphrodisiac qualities.

Finnish wolves with a taste for domestic dogs were given a nasty shock -- Helsinki shops started selling wired dog coats which sent 1,000 volts of electricity through the outer layer.

And in Germany, a woman burned down her family home by setting fire to the garage when trying to kill spiders with a can of hairspray and a cigarette lighter.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 9:20 am

Two giant toads were married in a traditional Hindu ceremony in eastern India by villagers hoping to please the rain gods and end a dry spell.

Is this wrong ?

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 9:42 am

Kinda like the crazy lady that married the Dolphin...!! :-3 Would they print it if is wasn't true..!!

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 9:55 am

are we allowed to feed the chihuahuas to the finnish wolves?

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 10:04 am

After years of frustration with diminishing sexual prowess, Irish poet William Butler Yeats today bit the bullet, or to put it more bluntly, bit the bull. Acting on the advice of some his occult-continental nervenkranken friends, he ate two elephant testicles and was instantly rejuvenated. Mr. Yeats scavenged the testicles from a dead bull elephant while surreptitiously following a recent African safari taken by Messrs. James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway. Apparently the two writer-hunters had no particular plans for those parts of their trophy and fussed little when advised of Yeats' pilfering. "Yeah, what the hell? He can have Ã¢â‚¬Ëœem" said Mr. Hemingway when quizzed about his role in this event. At a press conference this morning in Marrakech, Mr. Yeats read the following statement:

An aged man is but a paltry thing,

A tattered coat upon a stick,

unless soul clap hands and sing, and louder sing

Of pachyderm balls and happiness.