An Australian bank has apologized for granting a cat a credit card with a limit of 4,200 dollars (USD 3,300). The cat's owner said she applied for a second credit card on her account using her cat's name, Messiah, to test the bank's identity security system. Katherine Campbell told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. an envelope addressed to Messiah Campbell arrived to her mail box. When she opened it, she found a credit card bearing her cat's name inside.

he pet tabby cat of an Australian family of four saved the household from a house fire by alerting and clawing at the owner's face. Alert Timmy the tabby made the move by rousing his unidentified owner when a mattress suddenly caught fire as the family slept. "The cat was probably the best smoke alarm system . . . it was clawing at the occupant's face and got him up and out of bed," Cairns fire service spokesman Robert White-Macfarlane told media.

Fresh findings at a French museum that houses the remains of France heroine and saint Joan of Arc, has revealed her ashes may actually belong to a cat. The ashes were discovered in 1867 and brought to a museum in Chinon, western France.

An Idaho animal shelter have banned the adoption of black cats from mid-October to Halloween for fear they would be mistreated or sacrificed in rituals. Other shelters nationwide block people from adopting the animals during this time of year. Some shelters also do not do white bunny adoptions around Halloween for the same reasons.

Taking Halloween superstitions very seriously, an Idaho based animal shelter is prohibiting the adoption of black cats until Nov. 2, hoping to save the felines from frivolous pranks and perhaps sacrifice in occult rituals. The appearance of a black cat, according to superstition, is a bad omen, and the Kootenai Humane Society in Coeur d'Alene wants to keep their sweet critters out of harms way.