The Water Bowl: Dog Plays Mom to Pandas; Plus, Kitty Headed for Court!

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Two red panda cubs abandoned by their mother at the Taiyuan Zoo in China have a new surrogate mom: a dog belonging to a farmer in a nearby suburb.–Associated Press

Small Cat, the feline that was ordered to move from the coffee house she called home for five years after a health department complaint, will have her day in court on Friday. In February, Comma Coffee owner June Joplin launched a campaign to bring the cat back home.–Nevadaappeal.com

Thieves broke into the Frejus Zoological Park on Tuesday and snatched year-old twin baby gibbons after throwing their mother, 15-year-old Micha, into the moat near their island home. Keepers found the female ape soaking wet and in distress.–Heraldsun.com.au

Almost all of the 37 cats stolen from an animal shelter last week by a Greensboro, N.C., man who feared they’d be euthanized, have been placed in new homes.–News-record.com

Seventeen-year-old Cheyenne Cherry, the teen who killed her roommate’s kitten in a 500-degree oven in May, taunted animal activists yesterday and grinned widely after she received her sentence of one year behind bars.–New York Daily News