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Mice Murder 100 Cats In Fire

Posted December 23rd, 2008, 01:33 PM by Zoe - 11 replies Post to Facebook Bookmark and Share

Mice suspected in deadly cat fire

Mice or rats are thought to have chewed through electric wires.

Mice may be responsible for a blaze that killed nearly 100 cats at an animal shelter near the Canadian city of Toronto, officials say.

The fire at the humane society shelter in Oshawa also killed three dogs and some rats that were up for adoption.

An initial report from the fire marshal says mice or rats chewing through electrical wires in the ceiling are likely to have sparked the blaze.

Offers of help have been pouring in from animal lovers across Canada.

"It's unfortunate and ironic that mice caused the fire that killed the cats," Toronto Humane Society spokesman Ian McConachie told the BBC News website.

"Unfortunately, the mice probably perished in the fire as well," he added.

The $250,000 (£137,000) fire is still under investigation by the Ontario Fire Marshal's office.

Mr McConachie said it would be some days before a final report would be released.

In all, only nine dogs, two cats and one rat were rescued in Wednesday's early morning blaze.

They are being housed in a nearby municipal shelter, while volunteers rebuild the burnt-down shelter for the Humane Society of Durham Region.

Original Article: BBC NEWS | Americas | Mice suspected in deadly cat fire
Um... wow... talk about food chain revenge.
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Old Posted December 23rd, 2008, 01:49 PM

Poor kittehs D:
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Old Posted December 23rd, 2008, 02:51 PM

Who wants burnt pussy?

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Old Posted December 23rd, 2008, 03:18 PM

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Who wants burnt pussy?

Ra,
AAAAND the Insensitive Prick Of The Year Award goes to......!
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Old Posted December 23rd, 2008, 03:30 PM

... wha?

you think he should have said "Who wants burning hot bitch..?" instead maybe...?
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Old Posted December 23rd, 2008, 11:17 PM

Yeah...I would make a joke about this whole situation...but hearing about it initially on the news really bummed me out for the rest of the evening. Sure, sometimes I get easily annoyed with my pets when they misbehave and such but it hits close enough to home that it makes me worry about my own guys.

Had this dream once there was a fire and was trying to get all my 3 cats and dog out safety and kept running into problems. I woke up fairly upset and couldn't get back to sleep after that until I checked to make sure at like 2-3 in the morning that all my animals were accounted for and were fine.

Just thinking about all those guys gets me a bit choked up. Stuff like this always makes me overthink. I loves my kittayz and doggay, even if they drive me nuts at times lol.
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Old Posted December 24th, 2008, 10:56 AM

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... wha?

you think he should have said "Who wants burning hot bitch..?" instead maybe...?
That's if it were 100 dogs on fire.

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*gives tissue* Yes, I would be very upset if something happened to my kitties and doggie too ;_;
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Old Posted December 24th, 2008, 11:54 AM

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That's if it were 100 dogs on fire.

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*gives tissue* Yes, I would be very upset if something happened to my kitties and doggie too ;_;
Yeah, add to the fact I watched this really sad song on youtube called "Cat Carol" a couple days ago (It's got a nice moral to it, but if you're like me, you won't get past the song without crying a little) and parts of it being stuck in your head and rehashing this story is like HUGE sadpandaface for me >_>;

If there's any good to this story it's at least there's no suffering now *reference rainbow bridge poem* and some of the animals got out.

Man if it wasn't the mice that caused this chaos and it WAS someone doing this unpurpose...I assure you they'd get a HOHOHO up their ASSASSASS and then some.
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Old Posted December 25th, 2008, 04:43 AM

Reminds me of the fire that was set at a local animal shelter not to long ago~ ;A;

Poor Kittehs, well hopefully they're in Kitty Heaven...
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Old Posted January 1st, 2009, 05:44 PM

That's sad......*Sniff* May peace be w/ you Kitties!!
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Old Posted January 4th, 2009, 10:25 AM

@ -ra- : Burn't pussy? Please, you might as well just sell 'em on ebay xO

They were going to die anyway, so what's the big deal?
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Old Posted January 4th, 2009, 02:26 PM

I actually feel sorry for the kittehs.

I just hope that their death was quick and un-painful.

Kitteh eat mouse. Mice burn kitteh to death.

Lovely mental picture.
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