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Cats that Look Like Hitler - aka Kitlers
July 28, 2010

The Cats that Look like Hitler website was founded by Koos Plegt and Paul Neve in 2006, and became widely known after being featured on several television programs across Europe and Australia. Cats that look like Hitler may be a bizarre theme for a website, but most people who go to the site, usually forward the URL to their friends because it is just so funny. This is a parody website and certainly not a tribute to the "mad Austrian house painter" as some conspiracy theorists would like to suggest.

Long-haired tortoiseshell cat Calysta crawled between the brake and gas pedals. Spady said she took her eyes off the road to try and stop the cat. She said the cat refuses to travel in a carrier. Spady was headed home from Ashland and was just two miles from her parents' house when her vehicle went into a ditch, rolled and hit a tree.

“Cats exposed to secondhand smoke developed lymphoma twice as often as cats in smoke-free homes,” the news source reported. The study also revealed a probable link to other pet health problems in cats, such as oral cancer.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) identified a positive result in a random sample from those lot codes, but no related cases of Salmonella infection have been reported in humans or animals.

At its June 2010 meeting, the AVMA Executive Board approved establishment of the AVMA National Hazardous Waste Product Database Task Force and the AVMA Model Veterinary Practice Act Review Task Force. We would like to invite interested individuals to submit nominations for the following positions on the Task Forces.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today a plan to address concerns regarding the supply of Intervet/Schering Plough Animal Health’s (Intervet) Vetsulin (porcine insulin zinc suspension), a product used to treat diabetes in dogs and cats.  FDA is allowing Intervet to offer a limited supply of Vetsulin through their Vetsulin Critical-Need Program.  The supply is only to be used for a critical-need dog or cat that, in the medical judgment of the pet’s veterinarian, cannot be effectively managed on another insulin product.