Top ten Tues: Breaking Pet News

In September I posted a bit about the local newsrag, the Bulletin, and its ceaseless coverage of happy (and not so) pet news on the front page above the fold.

In the hubbub of Easter, I overlooked another high-profile local news story: Cat in Tree. This story got two days of front page headlines: once about said Cat In Tree, then a follow-up: Cat Gets Out Of Tree. 

So, I thought I'd compile a list of the top ten Animal News items covered on the front pages of the Bend Bulletin in the last couple of years, as follows, in reverse chronological order. This list only includes Real News stories, not any articles from the weekly Pets section, the "Meet My Pet" feature, the lost animals column, the Best Pet Photo contest, etc.

They are:

1. Llama attacks jogger: found to be suffering from "Berserk Llama Syndrome" [the llama, not the jogger]
2. At-large wallaby returned to owner
3. Pet fish killed in domestic disturbance [found with knife through it]
4. Nickolas the Llama is found
5. Buster the Dog is found
6. Deer, shot by an arrow, survives
7. Deer dies in backyard [not the same deer as #6]
8. Local chimp bites off owner's finger
9. Cat gets stuck in tree
10. Cat jumps out of tree

And today's: Local Mountain Goat Tickled by Motocrosser

(Probably not really what's going on here, but I didn't read the whole story)