Canadian Cruelty Update
We brought you the story of the cruel treatment of illegal immigrants by Canadian authorities earlier. They captured the offender and subjected him to inhuman conditions of confinement while searching for volunteers to transport the felon back to California. Well, it appears that two good Samaritans have stepped in to rescue the poor prisoner from Canadian purgatory.
MONTREAL (AFP) - A California skunk that hitched a ride aboard a commercial truck to Canada this month has found safe passage back home after causing a stink here.
"We do have a confirmed ride to California for the little skunk," said Nathalie Karvonen of the Toronto Wildlife Center, which cared for the animal during its Canadian stay.
The four-pound (1.8-kilogram) female had traveled nearly 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers) in five days without food or water in a sealed container, arriving in Canada slightly dehydrated but otherwise unharmed……
….A California radio host, Tracy Nealy, and her producer Ryan Miller finally heeded a plea for help, agreeing to come get the skunk and drive it back home, Karvonen said.
They are expected to pick up the black and white skunk at the Canada-US border near Buffalo or Detroit in about 10 days, she said.
Their return route is being plotted and other arrangements are being made to feed and care for the critter along the way.
A charming rescue, right? Except for one small problem. A very cursory search of Google for "Tracy Nealy" does not turn up a radio show host. It turns up nothing at all. But thanks to an alert and completely unreliable informant we have obtained an interesting fragment of a newspaper clipping. Now we in no way imply that the people in the two stories are in any way related, but we find the whole thing disturbing…….
By Bleepless, Thursday, 18 January , 2007 @ 10:02 pm
There has been a counterattack against the Animal Uprising. Stephen Colbert, doing a guest spot on “The O’Reilly Factor,” described owls as “a waste of space” and bears as “giant, marauding, Godless killing machines.” My, my.