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​Grant Denyer opens up about brutal argument with former Sunrise boss: "I nearly killed him"

<p>Grant Denyer has opened up about a brutal altercation he had with a former <em>Sunrise</em> executive producer on the latest episode of his podcast with wife Cheryl, <em>It’s All True.</em></p> <p>The famous TV personality revealed he “nearly killed” Adam Boland during a heated physical argument that took place while Boland prepared to farewell Seven’s long-running breakfast show in 2010.</p> <p>The program was to be broadcast live from Hawaii in an elaborate week-long salute to Boland. </p> <p>Denyer recounted that it was something he “didn’t really want to do.”</p> <p>He admitted that at the time both he and Boland were “admittedly not in the best form of our lives” as he was newly-married to wife Cheryl, who was also six months pregnant and working as a TV producer.</p> <p>He said that Boland gave him an ultimatum if he wanted to bring Cheryl on the trip: “She has to pay for her own flights and she needs to work.”</p> <p>Denyer claimed that while in Hawaii, Boland was “not hands on – he wanted to swan by the pool, have fun and bask in the glow of his success”.</p> <p><img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7838079/denyer-grant-2.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/dbeee74abc7a441fbf3b9e6708400943" /></p> <p><em>Adam Boland made Sunrise a ratings hit in the early 2000's. </em></p> <p>However, he explained that his pregnant wife was put to work scouting locations, producing <em>Sunrise</em> segments and “doing a lot of running around”.</p> <p>A technical failure during one morning’s broadcast saw Cheryl cop Boland’s wrath.</p> <p>“He turns on Cheryl and starts having a go at her. He says Cheryl is useless, incompetent … and he called you a b**ch,” Denyer recounted.</p> <p>“He starts flat-out abusing us. Proper abuse. It wasn’t his finest hour, and it certainly wasn’t my finest hour.”</p> <p>Denyer explained what happened as he went to the control room and confronted Boland.</p> <p>“I blew up at him, told him to get f***ed. I said, ‘You will never talk to my wife like that. There is no way you’ll ever talk to my wife like that.’ I grabbed him and slammed him against the wall and held him by the throat, yelling at him for 10 minutes on,” Denyer revealed.</p> <p>“I let him have it double barrels. I was going to rip his head off, I was so furious. Nobody intervened. I did the wrong thing but I needed to have my say and eventually it took three people to pull me off him!”</p> <p>The TV personality said the incident was “not something I’m particularly proud of”. </p> <p>“I am ashamed of my actions and I would do it differently now,” he said.</p> <p>The star says he and his former boss have since patched things up. “We’re all good now,” he said.</p> <p>“We’ve made up, we’ve spoken about it and we’re all good now.”</p> <p>Cheryl said her husband’s actions were “heroic but scary”. </p> <p>“You really snapped. In all the years that I’ve known you, I’ve never seen that happen,” she said.</p> <p>Boland himself had previously discussed the fight in his 2014 memoir Brekky Central. </p> <p>However, he said the stoush was a case of “crossed wires”, meaning Denyer mistakenly thought he had insulted Cheryl.</p> <p>“I don’t think he sees it the same way I see it,” Denyer said during the podcast.</p>

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Grandpa defies wife to secretly raise stray kittens

<p>Stray cats appearing at 85-year-old Jimmy’s tool-shed weren’t uncommon. A sweet, kindly man, he felt for the disadvantaged felines and would often feed them. One cat in particular formed quite a strong bond with Jimmy – she also happened to be pregnant.</p> <p>Knowing his wife wouldn’t approve of him allowing the cat to give birth in the shed, the ever-rebellious grandpa let it happen anyway, secretly adding a bunch of new furry family members to their Puerto Rico home.</p> <p>“My grandpa let a stray cat have her kittens in his tool shed and now he’s raising a bunch of cats behind my grandma’s back because she said no,” his granddaughter Syl wrote on <a href="https://twitter.com/lillsyl/status/839877091327889408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedodo.com%2Fgrandpa-secret-cats-2333809949.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Twitter</span></strong></a>, where the story became an instant hit.</p> <p>“My grandpa is really kind and has always loved animals,” Syl told <a href="https://www.thedodo.com/grandpa-secret-cats-2333809949.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Dodo</span></strong></a>. “So it’s not really that surprising.”</p> <p>Surprisingly, Jimmy’s clandestine kitten nursery lasted three whole weeks before being discovered by his wife. Thankfully, they’ve grown on her, too, and she’s willing to keep them until they are old enough to be adopted.</p> <p>To see Jimmy lovingly caring for his new kitten friends, take a look through the gallery above. We think the photos will make your day! </p>

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Stray cat brings joy to nursing home

<p>In proof that purr-fect matches do exist in this world, a stray cat has become a mascot at a nursing home in the US, befriending staff and residents at the facility.</p> <p>Oreo first wandered through the doors of St. Augustine Health Ministries five years ago, and has become really become part of the furniture ever since.</p> <p>This considerate kitty is loved by the facility’s 200 residents, many of whom have suffered strokes and brain injuries and are too old to care for their own pets.</p> <p>That’s not to say she doesn’t earn her keep. Oreo has shot to fame, after Cleveland.com produced a playful video about her work at the facility, which you can see below:</p> <p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RpHaZzckR8M" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p> <p>Dana Carns, director of advancement at St. Augustine Health Ministries, told The Huffington Post in an email, “Oreo is not a ‘lap cat’ but likes to be close. She loves to have her head scratched. Residents, staff and the children from our early learning center, look for Oreo. She is most often the greeter. I’m not sure if Oreo was in need of us, or we were in need of Oreo. But she’s a great addition to our family.”</p> <p>What a lovely story. Are you a cat owner?</p> <p><em>Hero image credit: YouTube / Cleveland.com</em></p>

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Stray dog gets new lease on life after adoption by monks

<p>It’s estimated that there are around 300,000 stray dogs in Bolivia, but thankfully there’s now one less. Friar Bigotón (Friar Moustache) has become the newest member of the St Francis Monastery in Cochabamba, Bolivia, after he was taken in by the order’s monks in the name of St Francis, the patron saint of animals. The fluffy friar even has very own pint-sized habit.</p> <p>“His life is all about playing and running,” Friar Jorge Fernandez told <a href="https://www.thedodo.com/monastery-adopts-friar-dog-2303203254.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Dodo</span></strong></a>. “Here, all of the brothers love him very much. He is a creature of God.”</p> <p>Aside from being an incredibly cute mascot for the monastery, Friar Bigotón has some very important duties. From “preaching to the fish” to encouraging parishioners to take in a rescue pet of their own, the miniature monk is brightening the lives of many.</p> <p>See the four-legged friar in action in the gallery above. It’ll be the sweetest thing you see all day!</p> <p><em>Images: Kasper Maiusz Kaprón/Facebook.</em></p> <p><strong>Related links:</strong></p> <p><a href="/news/news/2017/03/newborn-otter-pups/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>Newborn otter pups are here to brighten your day</strong></em></span></a></p> <p><a href="/news/news/2017/03/police-saves-newborn-squirrel-from-street/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>Police saves newborn squirrel from street</strong></em></span></a></p> <p><a href="/news/news/2017/03/feeding-tasmanian-devils/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>What you didn’t know about feeding Tasmanian devils</strong></em></span></a></p>

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Flight attendant adopts stray dog who waited for her for 6 months

<p>A German flight attendant has adopted a stray dog after it waited outside her hotel room for six months.</p> <p>Olivia Sievers first met Rubio in Buenos Aires during one of her frequent trips to Argentina. The good samaritan gave the lonely, homeless pup some attention and food, and left to check in to her hotel. </p> <p>For Rubio, it was love at first sight. Every time that Sievers was in Buenos Aires, Rubio would somehow know and turn up to the doors of her hotel lobby.</p> <p>“I tried to change my way as I didn’t want him to follow me to the hotel but it was not possible, he always followed me so I tried [to wait] one hour but he always watched me and followed me,” Sievers told <em>Noticiero Trece.</em></p> <p>Feeling guilty, the flight attendant even found a home for the stray pup, but he escaped it and returned to the hotel to wait for her. </p> <p>By this time, Rubio had worn Olivia down and she knew she had to take him home with her.</p> <p>Rubio is no stray anymore, and is enjoying his new life in Germany with two other dogs and his human soul mate.</p> <p>Scroll through the gallery above to see the heart-warming images.</p> <p>Do you have any incredible stories about a stray animal you adopted? Let us know the comments below.</p> <p><strong>Related links:</strong></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/travel/travel-tips/2016/08/is-it-safe-to-travel-to-france/"><em>Is it safe to travel to France?</em></a></strong></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/travel/travel-tips/2016/08/5-sounds-you-hear-on-the-plane-explained/"><em>5 strange sounds you hear during a flight explained</em></a></strong></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/travel/travel-tips/2016/08/secret-way-to-raise-the-armrest-on-your-aisle-seat/"><em>There is a secret way to raise the armrest on your aisle seat</em></a></strong></span></p>

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Australian Ultramarathon runner adopts stray dog after 125km trek

<p>Plenty of people have been followed home by a stray dog - but the tale of Australian ultramarathon runner Dion Leonard and Gobi and a 125-kilometre journey across China is quite something else.</p> <p>Edinburgh-based Leonard first met his new best friend early in the Gobi March, a 250-kilometre run across mountain and desert areas around the region of Kashgar. The race forms part of the gruelling international 4 Deserts series.</p> <p>At first Leonard didn't think much of his small fluffy sidekick. But the story that unfolded is incredible and has now gone global.</p> <p>"I noticed this dog was at my feet and looking up at me and I'm thinking 'I saw that dog yesterday walking around the campsite, that's a bit odd'," Leonard told BBC Radio.</p> <p>"I started to speed off and this little dog is looking up at me and I'm thinking 'this dog won't last the whole day' but 25 miles I think we ran that day and she was still with me at the end.</p> <p>"Day three was exactly the same. We started the race together and during that stage I actually had to take her across lots of rivers. She slept with me on day two, she came into the camp with me. From then on she didn't leave my side."</p> <p>Leonard said the dog - since christened Gobi - had shown incredible stamina to cover half the distance of the March with him and that she would have been up for more, had the race not gone into desert regions where temperatures reached an inhospitable 52 degrees.</p> <p>Race organisers stepped in to keep them together.</p> <p>"She'd sit there and wait for me [at the finish line] so I could see her as a I was running in. It was amazing to see her stand up and start running towards me," Leonard said.</p> <p>"It was then that I realised this was something else other than a little dog following me."</p> <p>The next leg of the 4 Deserts Series is the Atacama Crossing in Chile in October but Leonard has taken on a more sentimental challenge in the meantime - a bid to be reunited with Gobi in Edinburgh.</p> <p><img width="499" height="610" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/25501/insert_499x610.jpg" alt="Insert"/></p> <p>Using the hashtag #bringgobihome, he has started fundraising for her "immigration fees" and has <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/BringGobiHome/?fref=ts"><strong>Facebook</strong></a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/BringGobiHome/?fref=ts"> </a></span>and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://www.instagram.com/bringgobihome/">Instagram</a></strong></span> pages set up for the cause.</p> <p>Leonard has pledged that any extra funds raised will be donated to a still-to-be-determined dog charity.</p> <p><em>Written by Simon White. First appeared on <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/" target="_blank">Stuff.co.nz</a>.<br /></strong></span></em><strong><br />Related links:</strong></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="/lifestyle/family-pets/2016/06/do-our-pets-dream/"><em>Do our pets dream?</em></a></strong></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="/lifestyle/family-pets/2016/05/dr-chris-brown-secrets-to-dealing-with-allergies-to-pets/"><em>The secret to dealing with pet allergies</em></a></strong></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="/lifestyle/family-pets/2016/05/reasons-your-dogs-health-is-as-important-as-your-own/"><em>6 reasons your dog’s health is just as important as your own</em></a></strong></span></p>

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The Land of the Strays where 900 dogs roam free

<p>There’s nothing quite as heartbreaking as a walk through an animal shelter, past abandoned, sometimes frightened dogs with the appearance of prisoners in cells. </p> <p>But as you see in the gallery above, not all strays are consigned to this fate.</p> <p>Home to over 900 rescued pooches, Territorio de Zaguates (Land of the Strays) is a volunteer-run animal shelter located in the rolling hills of Cosa Rica.</p> <p>The Land of the Strays lets neutered canines roam free around the spectacular property and play with visitors, heading back home to comfortable beds at bedtime.</p> <p>Each dog is given a name and unique breed, with no preference given regarding mixes and purebreds. If you’re looking to adopt you can schedule a walking hike on the property and even any of the dogs take a shining to you you’re welcome to adopt them.</p> <p>Doesn’t it look like an incredible place for dogs (and dog lovers)!</p> <p>For more information you can check out their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Territorio-de-Zaguates-Oficial-1459982774272974/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Facebook page here</span></strong></a>.</p> <p>Have you ever taken in a rescue dog? What’s your favourite breed of dog, and why? Please share your story in the comments section.</p> <p><em>Image credit: Facebook / Territorio de Zaguates Oficial</em></p> <p><strong>Related links:</strong></p> <p><a href="/news/news/2016/06/puppy-born-without-back-paws-gets-second-chance-at-life/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>Puppy born without back paws gets second chance at life</strong></em></span></a></p> <p><a href="/lifestyle/family-pets/2016/06/how-to-cope-with-a-jealous-pet-when-grandkids-come-along/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><em>How to cope with a jealous pet when grandkids come along</em></strong></span></a></p> <p><a href="/news/news/2016/06/queen-elizabeth-and-her-corgis-help-ptsd-sufferer/"><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Queen Elizabeth and her corgis help PTSD sufferer</strong></span></em></a></p>

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Very inspiring quotes to live by in 2016

<p>Struggling to set or stick to your goals for the year? Award winning American author and advice columnist Cheryl Strayed has a few words of wisdom to help you reach your New Year’s resolutions, whatever they may be.</p> <p><strong>Approaching the New Year</strong></p> <p>“It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.”</p> <p><strong>Finding beauty</strong></p> <p>“What if you allowed your God to exist in the simple words of compassion others offer you? What if the greatest beauty of the day is the shaft of sunlight through our window? What if the worst thing happened and you rose anyway?”</p> <p><strong>Despair</strong></p> <p>“You go on by doing the best you can. You go on by being generous. You go on by being true. You go on by offering comfort to others who can't go on. You go on by allowing the unbearable days to pass and allowing the pleasure in other days. You go on by finding a channel for your love and another for your rage.”</p> <p><strong>Relationships</strong></p> <p>“The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.”</p> <p><strong>Fear</strong></p> <p>“Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves. And so I choose to tell myself a different story.”</p> <p><strong>Self-acceptance</strong></p> <p>“Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.”</p> <p><strong>Love</strong></p> <p>“Practice saying the word ‘love’ to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.”</p> <p><strong>Letting go of the past</strong></p> <p>“I’ll never know and neither will you the life you don’t choose. We’ll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn’t carry us There’s nothing to do but salute it from the shore.</p> <p><strong>Grief</strong></p> <p>“My grief taught me things. ... It required me to suffer. It compelled me to reach.” </p> <p><strong>Wisdom</strong></p> <p>“You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.”</p> <p><strong> Related links:</strong></p> <p><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/entertainment/books/2015/12/childrens-books-to-read/">10 children’s books to reread as an adult</a></strong></span></em></p> <p><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/entertainment/books/2015/11/short-classic-novels/">10 short classic books for the weekend</a></strong></span></em></p> <p><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/entertainment/books/2015/11/banned-childrens-books/">8 children’s books that caused controversy</a></strong></span></em></p>

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80-year-old man builds custom train for stray dogs

<p>Meet Eugene Bostick, an 80-year-old retiree from Fort Worth, Texas, who must have the best retirement ever. He spends his day operating a dog train – one he custom-built himself – which takes rescued stray dogs out for rides around the neighbourhood.</p> <p>Eugene and brother Corky live on a street where unfortunately, many locals abandoned their unwanted dogs. When Eugene noticed the dogs starving, he began adopting them and now has nine dogs under his care.</p> <p>“We started feeding them, letting them in, taking them to the vet to get them spayed and neutered. We made a place for them to live,” Eugene told Dodo.</p> <p>He then got the ingenious idea to give his rescued dogs a little bit of fun in their lives.</p> <p>“I seen this guy with a tractor who attached these carts to pull rocks. I thought, ‘Dang, that would do for a dog train.’ I’m a pretty good welder, so I took these plastic barrels with holes cut in them, and put wheels under them and tied them together,” Eugene said. “Whenever they hear me hooking the tractor up to it, man, they get so excited.”</p> <p><img width="518" height="325" src="http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/rescued-dog-train-tractor-stray-eugene-bostick-6.jpg" alt="rescued-dog-train-tractor-stray-eugene-bostick-6" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-290954"/></p> <p><img width="518" height="204" src="http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/rescued-dog-train-tractor-stray-eugene-bostick-1.jpg" alt="rescued-dog-train-tractor-stray-eugene-bostick-1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-290949"/></p> <p><strong>Related links: </strong></p>

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Vending machine give food to stray dogs

<p>In Turkey’s capital Istanbul, there’s an estimated 150,000 stray dogs roaming the streets. The dogs have wandered the streets for so long that they are considered a part of the city landscape. Some strays are so popular with locals that they’re treated like royalty, constantly fed and pampered. But what about the rest of the stray dogs?</p> <p>That’s where an ingenious idea by company Pugedo comes in. They recently installed “Smart Recycling Boxes” around the city where dog food is dispense in exchange for water bottles, thereby encouraging recycling as well as feeding the population of stray dogs. </p> <p><img width="510" height="309" src="http://cdn.earthporm.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/stray-dog-food-vending-machine-recycling-pugedon-6.jpg" alt="stray-dog-food-vending-machine-recycling-pugedon-6" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3770"/></p> <p><img width="510" height="340" src="http://cdn.earthporm.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/pugedon03.jpg" alt="pugedon03" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3769"/></p> <p><img width="509" height="245" src="http://cdn.earthporm.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/stray-dog-food-vending-machine-recycling-pugedon-7.gif" alt="stray-dog-food-vending-machine-recycling-pugedon-7" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3771"/></p> <p><strong>Related links: </strong></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong><a href="/lifestyle/pets/2014/12/worlds-strangest-animals/">10 of the strangest animals ever to exist</a></strong></em></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong><a href="/lifestyle/pets/2015/01/cat-instagram-accounts/">Instagram accounts cat lovers NEED to see</a></strong></em></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong><a href="/lifestyle/pets/2015/08/teeny-tiny-animal-gallery/">14 teeny tiny animals</a></strong></em></span></p>

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LA’s stray cats are becoming the solution to the city’s rat problems

<p>Ferocious Los Angeles stray cats are becoming transformed into contributing members of society with the help of one forward-thinking person.</p> <p>In an attempt to help businesses dispel their rat problems, LA’s Melya Kaplan came up with a solution: undomesticated strays. The system, titled Working Cats places animals into establishments. The effect is twofold: the animals that would have previously been unlikely to ever find a home are now off the streets and in a caring environment; and the businesses almost immediately find their infestation problem disappear.</p> <p>"We look for unsocialised cats; we want the ones that are hissing and spitting in their cages," Kaplan told Refinery29.</p> <p>Working Cats has homed over 500 cats and is now expanding into the domestic - placing would-be strays into American homes. Fortunately, even the most reluctant animals can still become friendly and domesticated in their new homes. Most are placed in pairs, for socialising purposes.</p> <p>It is estimated that 7.6 million American animals enter shelters each year. Of these millions, 2.7 are euthanised. Kaplan’s program is slowly helping to reduce these numbers and is giving previously less adoptable cats a second chance at life.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Related links:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong><a href="/news/news/2015/06/stationmaster-cat-mourned-by-thousands/">Japanese stationmaster cat mourned by thousands</a></strong></em></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong><a href="/news/news/2015/06/shibani-the-handsome-gorilla/">This gorilla is so handsome, hordes of women are flocking to see him in the zoo</a></strong></em></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong><a href="/news/news/2015/06/music-causes-car-accidents/">Listening to music while driving linked to car accidents</a></strong></em></span></p>

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Stray dogs turn up at the funeral of woman who fed them

<p>A number of stray dogs have turned up at a funeral to pay their respects to a Mexican woman who regularly fed them.</p><p>Margarita Suarez from Merida, Mexico regularly fed around 20 dogs and cats that would show up at her home.</p><p>Her daughter, Patricia Urrutia, said the dogs turned up at the funeral home where her mother’s body was being kept. On the day of the funeral, the canines formed a procession behind the hearse and returned to the funeral home. They only left when the body was being prepared for cremation.</p><p>“In pain, they jumped for joy, it was wonderful,” Ms Urrutia said.</p><p><img src="http://prod.static9.net.au/Content/images/1x1.gif" alt="The unknown dogs apparently showed up and mourned for the woman who would feed them. (Supplied)"><img width="497" height="410" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/4523/2803_saddogs2_s_497x410.jpg" alt="2803_saddogs 2_s" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></p><p><strong>Related links:&nbsp;</strong></p><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><a href="/news/news/2015/03/queensland-police-new-puppies/" target="_blank"><strong>Meet Queensland Police’s newest canine recruits</strong></a></em></span></p><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><a href="/news/news/2015/03/two-baby-orangutans-rescued/" target="_blank"><strong>The adorable moment two baby orangutans meet after being rescued</strong></a></em></span></p><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><a href="/news/news/2015/03/kangaroo-head-stuck-watering-can/" target="_blank"><strong>Thirsty kangaroo got his head stuck in a watering can</strong></a></em></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p>

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Stray pit bull adopts orphaned kitten

<p>In a remarkable story of survival despite the steepest of odds, a stray pit bull has been found nursing a helpless orphaned kitten. &nbsp;</p><p>Discovered on a roadside by an animal rescue group in Texas, at first rescuers thought the pit bull was nursing a puppy but on closer inspection were astounded to discover a tiny kitten, no more than a few days old, suckling on her nipple.</p><p>Both were rushed to the vet and were luckily found to be in reasonably good health.</p><p>“Over my 28-year career, I've never seen anything like this,” said veterinarian Dr. Rick Hamlin. “My gosh, to find this in the wild, that a pit bull and kitten found each other on their own and they connected like they did, it's really something.”</p><p><img src="https://scontent-sin.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/11051979_462016767283819_7890371352763382258_n.jpg?oh=b724be3b1ed6f5c9c8d843fc079f71d3&amp;oe=55AC3101" class="spotlight" style="width: 467px; height: 622px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></p><p>It is still unclear how the pit bull and kitten found one another.</p><p>“In this particular area, there's a lot of strays, so my best guess is that the mother pit bull had a litter of pups and they died or weened and she still had milk. And the kitten's mother, who just had her — well, something must have happened to her, and this kitten was left behind. The pit bull probably found her and took it as her own,” says Hamlin.</p><p>“They found each other at the perfect time.”</p><p>Both in the care of the vet, the pit bull is still as doting as ever. Staff have decided to keep them both in the same kennel, as the surrogate mum howls whenever they are parted.</p><p>“The bond between this pit bull and the kitten is just amazing. She cleans it, she licks it, and they snuggle up,” says Hamlin. “They're doing absolutely well. It's great that we're able to give the kitten the nutrition it needs, and to keep them both together.”</p><p>Once the kitten is strong enough, the clinic hopes to find the two their forever home but with one stipulation: you have to adopt the pair.&nbsp;</p><p><em>Image credits: Mercy Animal Clinic Facebook&nbsp;</em></p><p><strong>Related links:&nbsp;</strong></p><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><a href="/news/news/2015/03/man-returns-to-fukushima-to-feed-animals/" target="_blank"><strong>Meet the “radioactive” man who returned to Fukushima to feed the animals that were left behind</strong></a></em></span></p><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><a href="/news/news/2015/03/kevin-the-cat/" target="_blank"><strong>After missing for 2 years, cat turns up 3,000km away</strong></a></em></span></p><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong><a href="/news/news/2015/03/obese-dachshund-loses-weight/" target="_blank">Obese dachshund loses 20 kilos after cutting out pizza and burgers</a></strong></em></span></p>

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