Oddly enough

Oddly enough

Texas city council votes to oust library cat

WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas

A North Texas city council has started a cat fight by voting to oust the furry mascot of the city’s public library.

The governing council of the Fort Worth suburb of White Settlement voted 2-1 to give the library 30 days to find a new home for Browser the cat.

The ex-shelter cat has been a library fixture for six years. But council member Elzie Clements moved at a June 14 council meeting for the tabby’s removal.

Mayor Ron White, who has no vote on the council, tells the Fort Worth Star-Telegram the vote was a tit-for-tat after a city employee wasn’t allowed to bring a puppy to work at city hall.

Ex-council member Alan Price said Browser’s supporters will petition for a reprieve in November’s elections.

Court exonerates TV vet who saved dog

DETROIT

A Michigan veterinarian who saved a dog’s life on a reality TV show has been cleared of misconduct.

Jan Pol has a show on Nat Geo Wild called “The Incredible Dr. Pol.”

The 73-year-old Pol was fined $500 and placed on probation after a Kentucky viewer complained to state regulators that he wasn’t wearing a mask, didn’t provide IV therapy to Mr. Pigglesworth nor other comforts.

The Michigan appeals court bit back Friday, wondering how Pol could be accused of negligence when the Boston terrier “came through with flying colors” after being hit by a car.

The court says Mr. Pigglesworth probably continues to “bring great joy to his owners and terror to the local squirrels.”

Pol’s clinic is near Mount Pleasant, about 150 miles northwest of Detroit.

Philly street workers fill pothole with road pylon

PHILADELPHIA

Some south Philadelphia residents and a TV station are waiting for the city to explain why a pothole was filled with asphalt and the smashed-in orange pylon that had been marking the hazard.

Neighbors tell WTXF-TV they called to get the hole fixed on 5th Street, a busy road that runs in front of Dr. Brian Kron’s Eye Center.

The doctor says three men and a driver came out to fix the pothole and tossed some asphalt into the hole and left the pylon in the hole, too.

Kron says when he asked if they were going to fix the hole the right way “they just laughed and drove away.”

The station emailed a picture of the pylon-filled-pothole to the city streets department, but hasn’t gotten a response.

Associated Press