A cat survived a two-hour flight to Toronto and a one-hour car ride inside its owner's suitcase, even though security at St. John Airport had scanned the bag before boarding. The cat, named Ginger, had apparently slipped into owner Mary Martell's suitcase while she was packing and wasn't noticed until Martell got to her Niagara-on-the-Lake hotel.

Officers called for catching a mountain lion spotted wandering in the Franklin Business Park in Wisconsin on Tuesday afternoon, could not find the cat but did see a coyote in the area. According to Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports, police called the regional office of the state Department of Natural Resources at about 2:30 p. m. on Tuesday after employees of Electronic Cable Specialists reported seeing an animal that resembled a mountain lion in some nearby woods.

We all know that dogs wag their tails to express happiness, but a new Italian study now suggests that dogs show pleasure by wagging their tails more towards the right, while negative feelings get a left-swaying wag. An Italian neuroscientist at the University of Trieste, Dr. Giorgio Vallortigara, and two veterinarians from the University of Bari, Marcello Siniscalchi and Angelo Quaranta, closely watched 30 caged family pets of mixed breeds over 25 days, performing 10 tests per day.

Jeffrey Francis Cullen, a Vietnam war veteran, was sentenced to five months in prison and was put on five years of intensive probation after a Mohave County Judge found him guilty of aggravated assault against firefighters. The incident dates back to August last year when a fire crew went to Cullen's home to extinguish an alleged tree fire reported by him but instead found a cat stuck on the tree and Cullen demanding to rescue it. According to police reports, Cullen, 59, told firefighters he had wanted a cat rescued from his tree and knew they would only respond to a fire call.

In an attempt to give her life a new start, a 45-year-old woman from Minnesota has decided to sell nearly all of her belongings in one huge auction on eBay. Lisa Perry, who has worked as a lawyer in Montana, a communications professor in Mankato, Minnesota, and a bookseller in North Carolina has reportedly put more than 300 items - including snowshoes, a futon, a bed, a Village People album and seashells on the auction that will end Thursday.