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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

Ginger brothers.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

Bunny has such a long nose he looks like a fawn.

Except for, you know…. those ears. Which are also very long, even for a bunny.

BTW I thought my mind was playing tricks, seeing this in the comments when I’d already seen it up above.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 months ago

Part jackrabbit?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Greyhame
3 months ago

Looks like it, but AFAIK jackrabbits are hares, and hares can neither breed with rabbits nor be domesticated.

There’s a breed of rabbit called the Belgian hare, that looks like a jackrabbit, but isn’t. A friend used to raise them, years ago… Maybe this is one?

I just don’t know whether they come in this color… Hers were big and grey with white tails and looked exactly like Peter Rabbit.

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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

Cats and rabbits can do well together. Dominant cats will groom the others, and dominant rabbits get groomed by the others. So the cat will groom the rabbit, and they will both believe that they are the dominant one.

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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

The wording tells me it’s in the UK, and you can see that the squirrel is grey…

I don’t know about the current situation, but there were (and probably are) enough problems with grey squirrels in England that I’m not surprised that feeding them would be discouraged.

They’re bigger than the native red squirrels, steal their food, beat them up (okay maybe not really) and give them diseases, so they proliferate while the red ones disappear.

I’m not in favor of scurrilous lies… um… squirrelous lies? But if accusing them of crimes makes people stop feeding grey squirrels….

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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

Cleo did it better!

I was going to post it, Nighthawks … but I wasn’t sure you’d want me to.

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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

I shall not abuse that privilege.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Tigressy
3 months ago

He was a wonderful person.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
3 months ago

For those who don’t know….

Yes… the sweet-faced little boy,

in Nighthawks’ post, above…
Jackie Coogan, starring with Charlie Chaplin in the silent film, The Kid,
somehow grew up to be this guy.

Equally sweet-faced young Cleo Clifford played the child in an upgrade.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 months ago

Thank you, I wasn’t aware they were the same person.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

Looks like AI, but it’s real.

Krzywy Domek… “Crooked House” in Polish… is a shopping destination and tourist attraction, on “The Heroes of Monte Cassino” street in Sopot, Poland.

Photo by Patryk_Kosmider

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

Some things never change…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
3 months ago

Sure it did… some years ago, they scrubbed it up, in a major Chicago cleaning campaign.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

Fish skin has been used for a good part of this century in burn and other wound care… at first experimentally, but it’s more mainstream by now, especially in Brazil, and in countries where it’s a much cheaper alternative to conventional treatment.

I recently read that it was being tried on animals burned in the California wildfires.

A lot of it is talapia skin, a byproduct of the farms that grow talapia for consumption.

Yes, it helps, and may even make burns heal faster. It’s sometimes used as a temporary skin graft, which can stay in place as real skin grows over and absorbs it.

But the most important invention ever? I sense a bit of hyperbole in the above… Like maybe an ad for a product?

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 months ago

Wait! Does it come off? I wanted it to stay, because it looks like a fantastic tattoo! Now I have to go and get burned again!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

Owwieee!

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

Don’t go out getting into any fights soon!

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

“Hello, Mister Scrooge…”

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

Yes, with the Ghost of Christmas Present…

A jolly giant..

I gotta find the artist… BRB…

Okay yes… Charles Green, for the 1892 edition.

Wow, that Chinese bowl is so perfectly done.

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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

You’d think Doggo would be snuggling up to the pole, not sitting several feet away.

Then again… maybe it beams the heat over a wider area? The snow doesn’t seem to be melted around its base.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 months ago

The orange rings at the top could be infrared heaters which warm the object before it, and not radiant heaters which would heat the pole and the air around it. Infrared heaters are more efficient in open spaces, you see them a lot in workshops that need to open their doors frequently, minimal wasted heat energy.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 months ago

If that’s 88C, it’s 190F. I’d stay a ways away, too.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Arfside
3 months ago

Hopefully you’re joking!

They wouldn’t put something that reaches 190° on the street where people might bump into it.

Water heaters and appliances carry caution notices for much lower temps than that, and 140°F will burn your skin.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  Arfside
3 months ago

It could be a timer.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

I have a problem with the image. It just doesn’t fit.
I’m not doubting that the dog warmers exist, i just don’t think it looks like that.
Found it!

Finnish City Unveils Electric Heating Poles To Warm Dogs

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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
3 months ago

Heck! If i was there i’d use them

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
3 months ago

I’m not sure I even believe the article… There are two different pictures of the poles, not alike at all…

And unless that Finnish city has no homeless people, there would be just as many people as dogs clustered around them, probably more.

Shoppers, too, actually, taking advantage for a few minutes.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

Great white shark..

Photo by Matt Dave.

I was ready to think it wasn’t real.

Arfside
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 months ago

Well, don’t go into the water next to it, just in case.

JP Steve
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Reply to  Arfside
3 months ago

Just when you thought it was safe to read Cleo & Co. again…

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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

From Wikipedia:

Norfolk and Western 611, also known as the “Spirit of Roanoke” and the “Queen of Steam”, is the only surviving example of Norfolk and Western’s (N&W) class J 4-8-4 type “Northern” streamlined steam locomotives. Built in May 1950 at N&W’s Roanoke (East End) Shops in Roanoke, Virginia, it was one of the last mainline passenger steam locomotives built in the United States and represents a pinnacle of American steam locomotive technology.

No. 611 hauled N&W’s premier passenger trains between Norfolk, Virginia, and Cincinnati, Ohio; and ferried Southern Railway’s (SOU) passenger trains through the Blue Ridge Mountains between Monroe and Bristol, Virginia. Retired from revenue service in 1959, No. 611 was donated to the Roanoke City Council and put on display at the Virginia Museum of Transportation (VMT), where it became the sole survivor of the 14 class J locomotives.

In 1982, No. 611 was restored to operation by N&W successor Norfolk Southern (NS). It became the mainline star of the railroad’s steam program, pulling excursion trains as far south as Florida, as far north as New York, and as far west as Illinois and Missouri. In late 1994, when liability insurance costs led NS to end its steam program, the locomotive was again retired and moved back to the VMT. In 2012, No. 611 was officially donated to the VMT.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
3 months ago

I didn’t bother searching it, cos I knew you’d be along shortly… 😄

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

Someday he’s gonna fall overboard and Cindy is going to protect him from a giant octopus!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
3 months ago

Not a shark attack?

JP Steve
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 months ago

I was trying to be believable…

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

Got.

DancingBuffalo
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3 months ago

Yep.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

Spoiler
A blue cheetah?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

Does the one in the upper right corner count?
Sigh…. Okay.

I did find what I think is probably the one they want…

however… (spoiler-ish, not total spoiler)
It’s hard to decide exactly where the outline is.

The way I first saw it, I thought it was a fox.

In any case it has no spots, and looks more like a mountain lion, which makes more sense anyway, in a temperate forest with a deer.

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3 months ago
baconboycamper
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Reply to  Alexikakos
3 months ago

Took a look at this “official answer”, it’s pretty lame for a puzzle; Susan is correct in her view.
And, like Alexi, I didn’t get it either…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Alexikakos
3 months ago

I never saw it quite like that, especially not the lower part of the face.

mine:
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Red outline is the puma/mountain lion, with green lower part instead, the fox I saw first.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

?

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  JP Steve
3 months ago

Didn’t see it last night.
There is a kitten there.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

OMG!

I was wondering why we were looking at a marble floor
And then I saw it!

Don’t step on it!

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

I’ve had several cats that blended in with the carpet…..

(Might have accidently trod on a few)

I kind of guessed that there would be one somewhere in the picture, and I managed to spot it almost straight away.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

Do they call this breed a Marble Cat?

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

I get it.
Kiki disappears in every shadow,

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 months ago

 

Spoiler.
Your’e looking for a cat (as happy³ intimated).
Its tail is just under the while dot.
Go Southeast from there, and you should easily find its ears and then the rest of it just jumps out.

 

DancingBuffalo
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3 months ago

That Basset Gump poster is adorable!!!

SusanSunshine
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3 months ago

A tour-de-force acting job for Ms. Cleo!

Stel and I had several conversations about this poster (at that time still in progress) and that tail and its shadow… LOL.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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3 months ago

The Staffordshire & Worcestershire canal (UK), just above Kinver by ‘Geese Beach’. Taken on 30th October 2025.

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More_Cats_Than_Sense
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3 months ago

The Eastern Rosella (Platycercus Eximius) is a parrot native and endemic to south-eastern Australia. It was first introduced to New Zealand in cages, which were then both intentionally released, and accidentally escaped, into the wild.

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JP Steve
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
3 months ago

How do you rationalize “intentional released” and “accidentally escaped?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
3 months ago

Some of each…. 2 separate incidents.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 months ago

Exactly. Some would have been intentionally released, like the muppet who decided to release two dozen rabbits on his Australian estate to provide hunting and food. “They’re unlikely to cause any harm” (Famous last words).
Some would have managed to escape from their cages/aviaries and not have been recaptured.

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3 months ago

 
Just a bunch of stuff I found interesting from today’s London “Daily Mail.
 

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