Equal time for felines

In the interest of promoting canine and feline diversity, we give equal time here to Sybil, the new cat at 10 Downing Street:

Yes, I (heart) this cat, too!

Giving air time to all sentient beings, and credit to the little bitty dogs

By now you've probably heard the amazing story of Oscar the cat, who seems to sense when a resident of the nursing home where he lives is in their last hours of life.

Less known is the story of Zoey the Chihuahua. From the AP:

Tiny Dog Saves Baby From Rattlesnake

MASONVILLE, Colo. (AP) - Zoey is a Chihuahua, but when a rattlesnake lunged at her owners' 1-year-old grandson, she was a real bulldog.

Booker West was splashing his hands in a birdbath in his grandparents' northern Colorado back yard when the snake slithered up to the toddler, rattled and struck. Five-pound Zoey jumped in the way and took the bites.

“She got in between Booker and the snake, and that's when I heard her yipe,” said Monty Long, the boy's grandfather. The dog required treatment and for a time it appeared she might not survive. Now she prances about.

“These little bitty dogs, they just don't really get credit,” Booker's grandma Denise Long told the Loveland Daily Reporter-Herald.