All God's Creatures, Including Viruses

As my mind drifts off into the balmy oblivion of a medicated slumber, I thought it would be nice if we took a quick look at how the animals are doing. Let’s start with this dispatch from Colorado:

A 40-year-old woman described as a transient was jailed in Grand Junction -- accused of jumping a fence to wrestle naked with a dog.

An arrest affidavit indicated that Katherine Earle scaled the four-foot fence just before midnight Tuesday, then stripped in order to wrestle with the male Labrador retriever-blue heeler mix.

Residents of the home awoke from the noise and called police.

Responding officers said Earle told them she was having sex with the dog, and that she does it all the time. The dog's owner, Six Starr, said that Earle has been friendly with the dog, but that Earle has been acting strangely for the past six months.

I don’t know what that tells us about anything, but like I said...my judgment is shot. Be that as it may, here’s this story about a poor little kitty:

[Torri] Hutchison was driving along Interstate 15 one day recently when a motorist kept trying to get her attention and pointing to the roof of her car. She said she was wary of the man, but wondered if perhaps her ski rack might have come loose.

She pulled over to the side, but kept her doors locked and the motor running.

The man pulled up behind her. Hutchinson rolled down her window to hear the man frantically shouting, "Your cat! Your cat!"

He reached for the roof of her car and handed the shocked Hutchinson her orange tabby.

She had driven about 10 miles with the cat on top of the car, and didn't even notice the feline when she stopped for gas.

Now, I wonder how they got that story and why they decided to run it. Could it be substantiated? Was there evidence? Or was this whole thing just a convincing story somebody heard? Ah, screw it. My Way is a property of Ask Jeeves Inc., and is constantly culled by Drudge in support of his Freeper bullshit. What does this have to do with kitties? I don’t know. I’ve had a great deal of medicine and a there’s a rather gummy clot of mucus lodged somewhere between my sinuses and my larynx. I’m going to bed.