still on the run

Hey ho, Sivvers the Cat here, reportin' from  sunny SNOWY Nova Scotia.

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That's right, my dear pals.  That's right!  The snowfall I reported on the other day, melted and disappeared; but pretty much as soon as it was all gone, it went and snowed all over again.

There's a whole whack of the white stuff all over the ground.

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And just what is a kitty to do when it's below freezin' outside and the ground is covered in snow?

Well...

Well surf the net, of course.  What else?

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And whilst surfin' that net, I found me some breakin' news.

Okay, so it was actually breaking 'bout a week ago; but if it's new to me and you, it can still be considered as news.

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So anyway...

So anyway, APPARENTLY, there's a shoe thief on the loose in Japan.

It's true!

Yup, accordin' to multiple news reports from various news agencies, there was a shoe thief on the loose in Japan.  Shoes belongin' to kindergarten students were bein' stolen left, right, and centre.

Police were called in.

Security cameras were installed.

Surely the culprit was BOUND to be found.

Well...

Well, the culprit was caught on camera, all right.

And said culprit turned out to be a...

Wait for it...

Weasel.

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There on the security footage, for EVERYONE to see, was a furry little weasel with a shoe hangin' outta its mouth.

"It's great it turned out not to be a human being," Deputy Police Chief Hiroaki Inada told The Associated Press Sunday.  Teachers and parents had feared it could be a disturbed person with a shoe fetish."

Hmmm...

But a disturbed WEASEL with a shoe fetish is okay?

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And as I previously mentioned, said weasel is STILL on the run.

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But have no fear, my dear friends.  Have no fear.  This kinda stuff is never gonna happen 'round here.

'Cause you see...

'Cause you see, those of you who are familiar with my blog, already know that most weasels in Canada belong to the well-known criminal organization known as The Weasel Syndicate.  They don't go around stealin' peeps' shoes.  A stolen shoe here and there is small potatoes compared to the criminal activity weasels get up to in this country.

But just to be safe...

Just to be safe, if you happen to come across a weaselly-lookin' character sellin' kids' shoes on a street corner...

Make sure they're selling 'em in pairs.

'Cause what's a kitty gonna do with only one shoe?

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runnin' amok

They were runnin' amok.

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No actually, they were hamsters.

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That's right, my dear pals.  That's right!  An airplane was grounded for several days after...

Wait for it...

After airport employees went into the cargo hold...

AND FOUND HAMSTERS RUNNNIN' AMOK.

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I don't think they were violent or anythin'.

The hamsters, I mean.  Not the baggage handlers who found 'em.

Yeah, I don't think they were violent.  After all, they're kinda cute, fuzzy little things.

Again, I mean the hamsters.  I doubt any baggage handler wants to be described as a cute, fuzzy little thing.

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But although probably not violent, they - again, the hamsters, I mean - must have been runnin' about.  Maybe even goin' berserk!  I would be, too, had I been put on a plane against my will and then let loose.

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Okay, so they weren't actually LET loose.

Actually, they escaped.

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That's right, my dear pals.  That's right!  Accordin' to multiple news reports from various news agencies, no fewer than 132 hamsters managed to escape on that plane, by chewin' through their cages.

BEFORE RUNNIN' AMOK.

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One wonders exactly what kinda cages those were.  And why-oh-why were they so tasty?

The cages, I mean.  I'm not talkin' about the hamsters.

This time.

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Although on the other paw...

Nah, hamsters are way too cute and too fuzzy for tastin'.

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News reports also indicate there were ferrets and birds on the flight, as well as a number of passengers, aka peeps.  No mention of the ferrets or birds gettin' loose.

No word on the peeps.

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But to tell you the truth, the peeps weren't in cages.  Oh sure, they were probably belted in, 'cause airlines are sticklers 'bout those kinda things, but I'm pretty sure no peeps chewed through their seatbelts.

Although on the other paw...

One never really knows with peeps.

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Nah, I'm thinkin' they just clicked on their seatbelt buttons to undo 'em.

Probably.

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But as for those hamsters who were runnin' amok, the airplane had to be grounded even after all of 'em were found, 'cause if the hamsters had chewed through their cages, they might have chewed through wirin' and stuff.

ESPECIALLY if the wirin' was as tasty as the cages.

Again, I really wanna know what those cages were made of.

'Cause if the cages tasted like salmon or tuna...

I MIGHTTA CHEWED THROUGH 'EM TOO!

Especially if I had previously been imbibin' in catnip and had a big ol' case of the munchies.

Hmm...  Do hamsters like nip?  Could that have been it?  Could those hamsters have been all nipped up, got the munchies, and then started to chew?

Methinks this warrants further investigation.

Most definitely, and for sure.

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