Brandy the Chihuahua holds the record for being the smallest dog in the world in the 2006 Guinness book. She is 6 inches long and tips the scale at less than two pounds. Brandy's owner, Paulette Keller, takes her around in a sheepskin-lined purse and sometimes dresses her in a pink Hawaiian dress for fun.

Specialty beverage maker Jones Soda Co. will soon offer new green pea flavored soda to add to its roster of flavors like fish taco and salmon. Green pea is only one of the unique sodas being offered by the company alongside with turkey and gravy, dinner roll, sweet potato and antacid flavor. These flavors will be marketed as part of their $10 to $15 "holiday pack" of bottled drinks to be distributed nationwide.

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.

Hundreds of thousands of devotees flocked to temples in Northern India to see the Hindu deities drinking milk. The drinking god craze comes just two days after thousands of Muslims piled up at a bay in Bombay to drink the sea water that had turned sweet. "It is a miracle," Sudhir Mishra, a priest at a Shiva temple in Lucknow told the AP. He said that at least 10 liters of milk had been offered at his temple on Monday.

Cow chip throwers are coming together this weekend to compete for the title of top dung hurler. The Illinois Championship Cow Chip Throw is being held at the Chatham Jaycees Sweet Corn Festival. Competitors pay $5 each for the opportunity to hurl two patties as far as they can. Expert cow chip throwers have been known to throw chips more than 200 feet.