Burrowing cats

[helen99]

As you may have heard, the bald eagle at the Washinton DC national zoo died on the 4th of July. The death is currently under investigation.

The following articles attribute the death to Burrowing Cats. I did a search on Google to see if I could find any instances of Burrowing Cats (besides these articles), and you know what? I couldn't find any! This does not mean they don't exist (mine certainly burrow under the covers), but still...

This is about the 10th death at the National zoo. As a conspiracy theorist, I am forced to suspect there's more to this than meets the eye. Like maybe a disgruntled employee wanted someone's job, didn't get it, and is trying to make someone look bad by killing the animals. Or maybe there is a psycho on staff. Or maybe they're being poisoned with Spider Milk. Or something. But I don't think it's Burrowing Cats. No, no I don't.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13678-2003Jul5.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23447-2003Jul7.html

Comments

Re:

[helen99.livejournal.com]

If it was someone who was, say, who wanted to make an existing zoo director lose their job (either for revenge or to obtain their position) they would want to do this in a way that attracted a lot of attention. Killing the prize eagle on the 4th would do that.

[stormcat.livejournal.com]

Or at least the weekend of the 4th; it was discovered on the evening of the 3rd.

Honestly, it'd be near-impossible to trace who it might have been. Too many humans...