Weird Cat News

A tabby from the Qingyan province in China recently sprouted a pair of fur-covered wings on his back during a hot-weather spell, the U.K.’s Daily Mail reported.

In Sichuan, in southern China, cats there also have sprouted wing-like growths on their backs. The locals are ascribing the main reason also for this to the warm weather of Sichuan. Sichuan is a large province of China where a destroying earthquake struck this spring. Though the wing growth appears quite fluffy and bushy, they do contain bones inside, media reports said.

Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times’ David Kelly writes: “Neighbors first noticed the feline squatters [bobcats] Aug. 27 hanging out on a side wall of the empty house in the Tuscany Hills development….The foreclosed home is one of several on the block. Its lawn is brown but still being watered by the sprinklers. The house sits right up against barren, chaparral-covered hills. At least two adult bobcats and perhaps a litter of young ones appear to be occupying the house. Residents have mixed emotions about their new neighbors.”

Finally, sad news, to share, for Kimber, an 18 year old liger, has died on September 1, 2008, according to Mike Wyche, a spokesman for Cat Tales Zoological Park. The liger, a lion and tiger mix, became very popular due to an appearance in the 2004 hit movie Napoleon Dynamite.

Loren Coleman About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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