Animal Planet buys Petfinder

This is probably old news to many of you, but Animal Planet/Discovery has purchased Petfinder.  This means a nice infusion of advertising cash into Petfinder, plus a lot of TV ads to promote animal adoption.  All the Petfinder staff will remain to run the company, so it should remain as wonderful as it’s always been, but it should be even more effective.

Just to prove that I truly do need a “news of the weird” category, I found this story about a man who built a small “wheelchair” for an injured ferret:  Pet lover creates wheelchair for ferret.  The story is a nice tale of a somewhat frightening-looking man who loves ferrets, so what could be weird about it, right?  Check out the link, and either watch the video or click on the slideshow of photos.  The man loves his pets so much, “he keeps them in the freezer when they die”, and he actually opens up his freezer and pulls out a frozen iguana.  No, seriously.  I’ve kept dead goldfish (very large ones) frozen for lengthy periods of time until I could bury them, but I always freeze them in water in a Ziploc bag, then put them in a box.  This guy just has dead animals stacked in his freezer, and the sight of a stiff, frost-covered iguana is sort of disturbing!

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 11/09 at 11:46 PM

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  1. I wish Animal Cops would come out on DVD *and* that Netflix would get copies. I so want to watch the show regularly, but without cable, there’s no chance of that. Unless you want to tape it every time it’s on and send it out. *Toothy Grin*

    Posted by Nio  on  11/11  at  10:13 AM
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