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Missing sausage dog reunited with 'euphoric' owners after 540 days
By Will Hunter

A sausage dog that captivated the world after disappearing on a South Australian island for a year-and-a-half has been reunited with her "euphoric" owners. Her owners made the trip from their New South Wales home to Kangaroo Island where they were emotionally reunited.

abc.net.au/news/2025-05-07/val

ABC News · Valerie the dachshund reunited with owners after Kangaroo Island rescueBy Will Hunter

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We are very sad to share that Basil—a rescued Virginia opossum who was favorite of many Small Mammal House visitors—died May 1. That morning during their rounds, keepers found Basil tremoring, tense and unable to move. They brought him to the Zoo’s hospital, where veterinarians t.co/fW8IJ69qhT
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Critically endangered pygmy possums make comeback in Snowy Mountains
By Adriane Reardon

The tiny mammal's population was decimated by drought and bushfires, but after five years of struggle, they are starting to thrive.

abc.net.au/news/2025-05-07/mou

ABC News · Mountain pygmy possum population bounces back in NSW alpsBy Adriane Reardon

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💛 BABY ALERT💛

Say hello to our pied tamarin twins—the first born at Philly Zoo since 2010! Their birth is part of the AZA Species Survival Plan for critically endangered species. The babies are healthy and thriving. Names coming soon! Learn more: t.co/OGsQKEtpwm t.co/qdttWbxad2
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Book Review: The Ghost Cat by Alex Howard

The Ghost Cat, a curious little novel about a spectral cat haunting an Edinburgh townhouse over several generations — is sometimes enchanting, sometimes discombobulating and overall quite uneven

Rating: 🌟

Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, Animals, History.

Review in one word: Confusing

The premise of this book sounded enchanting. A cosy historical fantasy novel set in Edinburgh from the perspective of a cat! I mean this sounded like a book made especially for me. To say I was excited was an understatement!

The novel begins in the early morning in 1902. At a handsome home in Edinburgh’s New Town on the street of Marchmont Crescent, Grimalkin is snuggling next to his beloved human companion, housekeeper Eilidh. It will be his last day as a living cat. Sooner after he is plunged into a feline netherworld where he meets Cait-sìth who grants him eight additional lives. “For three he plays, for three he strays, and for the last three he stays.

The novel follows Grimalkin as he witnesses the world’s changes for the next 120 years. This book starts off with an enormous amount of promise and the first few chapters are really engaging.

I don’t know what I was expecting but the tone of the novel seemed a bit silly. The narrative felt cheapened by fast-paced vignettes of the lives of people living in the home. Instead it’s a mash-up of key events and figures from throughout the past 100 years who all seem to converge on the one house over that period of time. So it’s a whistlestop tour of the The Blitz, the moon landing, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth, the 2008 financial crisis and so on. After a while in the same mode it all felt a bit repetitive and stale.

The individual vignettes don’t linger long enough for the reader to meaningfully connect with the characters who live in the house or to care what happens to them. At the end of each vignette set in a particular period, the author felt it necessary to explain the characters and the historical context of the vignette. This unconventional move of explaining a vignette after it’s told seemed like lazy writing and also seemed condescending, as though the audience needed to be given historical context in order to understand. There is also a confusing addition of which monarch was reigning after each vignette—to anchor the reader in time. These flourishes, rather than enriching the narrative, came across as being self-conscious and condescending.

On a positive note the main character of Grimalkin the cat is engaging and amusing in a snooty, feline way. The stories themselves were sweet and amusing but also at times discombobulating and lacking in meaning and depth.

The Cat-Sith, a kind of Grim Reaper figure who grants Grimalkin eight additional lives is a towering figure in the book who commands a lot of attention in the beginning, it would have been good to hear more from him.

As cat lover and devotee of all things feline I just couldn’t like Grimalkin much as a character. Each time he enters into a new era he finds so much to moan and complain about. There’s a sense that he’s a Luddite and technophobic Boomer (in cat form) who rails against any new changes in the world and spends a lot of time grumbling about new things and longing for the good old days. Some will find this charming and this belligerence rather cat-like, I just found it annoying.

I’m not sure if I would recommend this book, it’s a strange and surreal read with not much satisfying depth to it.

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