I suppose you could live without pets. You could have white upholstery and travel without special arrangements, and never slip on cold vomit on your way to the bathroom at 3 am. But why on earth would you want to? Pets provide stress relief, force you to be functional and responsible (but only just so, […]
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Behold!: Gary, the Winner of the Most Glamorous Pet Photo Contest!
The past few weeks have been a little more magical around the old inbox than usual, thanks to our first-ever glamorous pet photo contest! We asked you to send in snaps of your beautiful, glamorous pets, and boy did you ever. It was really, really delightful yet really, really difficult to sort through the bounty […]
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Poll: What Should One Do When Chased by an Angry Koala?
In this hilarious video—well, hilarious unless you’re the woman being chased by a koala—a woman riding an ATV is getting chased by a koala! While perhaps originally charmed by the chase, the lady goes into full Jurassic Park panic mode when the koala refuses to stop and commandeers her ATV. WATCH: And now, a poll:
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Pay It Forward: Helping the Houseless Pets of Portland
We are creeping up on the Mercury‘s annual Pet Issue, which mostly means my inbox is a flood of adorable photos—keep them coming, please! It also gives me a little extra rope to highlight all things pet-related, such as the donation drive being held by Lovers Not Fighters Pitbull Rescue, which is wrapping up this […]
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Super Cute Alert: I Attended the “Hello Kitty Super Cute Friendship Fest”
This past Saturday I had what was one of the best Saturdays in the history of Saturdays. It started with a hangover—okay, stay with me now—and ended with meeting my friends so we could attend… drumroll please….THE SUPER CUTE HELLO KITTY FRIENDSHIP FESTIVAL. Pulling up to Memorial Coliseum my friends and I could barely contain […]
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Behold! Enter the Mercury‘s “Most Glamorous Pet” Photo Contest!
Because we are dorks, the Portland Mercury is holding a photo contest for our annual Pet Issue (publishing mid-August!) to celebrate the beauty and taste of Portland’s fur-bearing, scaly, shell-having, and/or feathered pals! “Behold! The Mercury‘s Most Glamorous Pet Photo Contest” is your chance to show the rest of the city how bewitching your companion […]
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$5,000 Reward for Information on the Portland Cat Stabber
Guys, the person who stabbed Grand Theft Auto and Alibi—two cats in the Woodlawn neighborhood who managed to survive the June 25 attacks after being found near the intersection of NE 6th and Holman by their owner—is still at large. It seems the trail is going a little cold, so the national non-proft Animal Legal […]
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Dead Dog in Woodlawn Park Possibly Connected to Cat Stabbings
It was beginning to seem like the trail was cold as far as catching the sick fuck responsible for last month’s cat stabbings in the NE Woodlawn neighborhood. Then, on Tuesday, a small dog who had been missing since June 25 was found dead in Woodlawn Park. That, at first, wasn’t deemed suspicious until further […]
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Let’s Catch the Portland Cat Stabber
On Thursday night, Sarah Shapiro got home and lifted her tomcat, Grand Theft Auto, to find her hands covered in blood. After rushing him to Dove Lewis, she came back for her other, female cat, Alibi, who was also found to have abdominal wounds. Both cats required surgery, and Grand Theft Auto, at last report, […]
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New Multnomah County Animal Shelter Opens in North Portland, Sooooo… Who Wants a Kitten?
This just in, a new branch of the Multnomah County Animal Shelter opens today in the far more convenient location of North Portland—their other location is waaaaaay over there in Troutdale, a town where no one has ever been ever. And I’m pretty sure you need a KITTEN, am I right? So according to their […]
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Multnomah County Republicans Loved “Scruffles the GOP Kitten” So Much—They Wrote Their Own!
Who says Republicans can’t take a joke? After seeing this week’s “New Column!” in the Mercury—titled “Will Someone Please Adopt… SCRUFFLES, THE GOP KITTEN?”—the Multnomah County Republicans decided to post a rebuttal column of sorts on their blog called “WIMPY, THE PORTLAND MERCURY KITTEN.” Here’s a taste! Meet Wimpy, the Portland Mercury Kitten. He’s a […]
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Just Kitten Around: A Trip to Portland’s First-Ever Cat Cafe!
MB The cats at Purringtons were going like adoptable hotcakes before our eyes! By the time you go, this cat will probably be one of them. Fact: Purringtons Cat Lounge, Portland’s first-ever CAT CAFE, was impossible to get into on its opening weekend last month. Believe me, I tried in vain to get a reservation, […]