<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>Ever Wondered Why Cats Are Said To Have Nine Lives? : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/animals/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title>Ever Wondered Why Cats Are Said To Have Nine Lives? : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/animals/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever Wondered Why Cats Are Said To Have Nine Lives?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/61137/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The proverbial curiosity doesn't usually kill cats. The inquisitive feline has a knack of dodging death by a whisker. Cats are intrepid explorers and fearless acrobats. After all, a creature with nine lives can afford to take risks. According to Brewer's Dictionary Of Phrase &amp; Fable, a cat is said to have nine lives because it is &quot;more tenacious of life than many animals.&quot;]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ready for take-off, Tiddles? Meet the cats which have sprouted wings]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/73802/1/</link><description><![CDATA[While most cats are renowned for having nine lives, these moggies are clearly living on a wing and a prayer.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The I hate cats picture gallery]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/34753/1/</link><description><![CDATA[It's not that i hate cats I just don't like them as much as dogs. The pictures are funny anyway and I really don't want CATS to win for this weeks <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/f/1677/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Fancy Avatar Friday</a>  So here you go!]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hero cats save lives]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/51320/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Two cats are credited with saving lives for alerting residents to a fire on Monday.<br/><br/>*Image is of Scarlett.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is purrfect for three women's cats]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/28125/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Three women in Britain have gone to great lengths to ensure their cats have the best of everything -- even cat passports -- no matter what the cost may be.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[VG Cats]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/11139/1/</link><description><![CDATA[VG Cats (short for Video Game Cats) is a webcomic written and drawn by Canadian Scott Ramsoomair. Published once a week on its own website, it features the adventures of a pair of anthropomorphic cats, who often play the roles of characters in popular video games that are parodied in the strip.<br/><br/>Note: this excellent comic is not at all suitable for kids.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[China Internet surfers save more than 800 cats]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26712/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The power of the Internet has saved more than 800 cats from being skinned and served up on Chinese dinner tables.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you wanted to know - and much, much more - about your cats and dogs]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40508/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered which breed of dog barks the most, why black cats are a sign of good luck or which direction dogs wag their tail to show they are happy? Here are 36 fascinating facts from a new book on man's two best friends...]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[More than 100 cats rescued from Olympics site]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/49942/1/</link><description><![CDATA[LONDON (Reuters) - More than 160 feral cats and kittens have been rescued from the site of the London 2012 Olympics as demolition work continues at a pace.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iowa town pays $5 bounty for stray cats]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/53986/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Mayor Vance Trively says that the southwest Iowa town of 200 people is being overrun by dozens of feral cats and needed to do something, so they're offering a $5 bounty for each feral feline turned in.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mad Science of Crazy Cat Ladies]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26022/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Ever wonder why there are crazy cat ladies but no crazy hamster ladies or crazy parakeet ladies? Or why cats, from the Egyptians to the witch trials, are thought to have supernatural powers? A brain-altering parasite spread by cats may be the reason.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rats, cats work together to sniff out land mines]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/28746/1/</link><description><![CDATA[For the past year, a special Colombian police unit has been locking rats in cages with cats as part of a project to train the rodents to sniff out the more than 100,000 land mines planted mostly by leftist rebels across this conflict-wracked Andean country.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death Row Cats Get Reprieve]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/56190/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The stray and feral cats that have overrun a middle American town can meow a little louder now that they have gotten a reprieve from a bounty the mayor had put on their whiskers -- a bounty he says he initiated to address the community's rampant cat problem.<br/>*Updated to <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/WTF-/l/53986/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this story</a>.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[World's most expensive coffee at &#163;50 a cup comes to British stores...and it's made from cats' droppings]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/57668/1/</link><description><![CDATA[It might not be to everyone's taste - and that's not just because at &#163;50 a cup it's the most expensive coffee in the world. The secret behind the special blend about to go on sale at an upmarket department store is that it is made from cats' droppings. <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/entertainment/food-and-drink/l/16362/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Previously posted</a> a year ago.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[First Cats Domesticated in Bahrain?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/38989/1/</link><description><![CDATA[DNA samples show that cats may have been first domesticated more that 130,000 years ago, rather than 9,000.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[300 Cats]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45239/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Yes, it's another 300 parody. But this one has cats and is very cute.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hemmingway's six-toed cats won't be evicted after all]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/77910/1/</link><description><![CDATA[An agreement with the federal government lets the 50 or so cats continue roaming the grounds, ending a five-year battle.<br/><br/>The cats descend from a cat named &quot;Snowball&quot; given to the novelist in 1935 and freely wander the grounds of the Hemmingway home. All the cats carry the gene for six toes.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Rich Cats Poop]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35816/1/</link><description><![CDATA[More and more cats are staying home and pooping indoors these days. But, what do you do with the litter box, especially if Rich Kitty can't have a room of her own?]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[24-hour curfew for Nillumbik Council's cats]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/60336/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A round-the-clock curfew would restrict thousands of cats to their own homes under a draft plan proposed by a Victorian council.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats can fly!]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/42464/1/</link><description><![CDATA[See a collection of 38 pictures of cats caught in mid-pounce, just ripe for captioning.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Cats Are Evil]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/75253/1/</link><description><![CDATA[An amusing article by R J Evans explaining why cats are evil]]></description></item></channel></rss>