If the toilet is your last bastion of peace and quiet, beware, you may soon have to fight a cat for the prime throne spot.
An Australian woman has designed, and is now selling, a system to train cats to use a toilet.
'Litter Kwitter,' the toilet training system went on sale in December, and at 89 U.S. dollars a piece, 20 thousand units have already been sold.
Its so called "snow monkeys", wild Japanese monkeys who are enjoying the naturally hot springs just like the human visitors.
They able to endure temperatures as low as minus 10 degrees Celsius, but learned the habit from human bathers in the nearby country inn. The whole Macaque troop have been seen bathing in the springs to keep warm ever since.
This baby harp seal will sport a silky white coat for only the first three weeks of its life, after which the fur becomes denser and darker.
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Seal rescue http://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=w-SAlidFd aY
Seal in TUBE http://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=hy1I7szSu GI
Piper the cat was stuck on top of a tree in Summerville, S.C., for a nerve-wracking eight days. When would-be rescuers showed up, the cat fell about 80 feet and survived.
He lives in central Illinois, is two years old, weighs about 1 kilo, is about 15 centimeters long, perfectly fits in a 200 ml glass and has been legitimized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's smallest cat - his name is Mr. Peebles.