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

age tends to kill things too

[hanibal.livejournal.com]

Take it from someone who worked at the National Zoo for 10+ years. animals die. amazingly enough they get old and die and stuff. I have been keeping track of what has been going on, and been checking in with the friends I still have over there (my mother included) and none of this stuff has happened because of the intention to hurt the animals. when people over there get pissed at each other they file sexual harassment charges like any civilized person. they dont take it out on the defenseless animals. Normally I would agree with the conspiracy theory, as I KNOW they are out to get me, but it just isnt the case here.
-t

Re: age tends to kill things too

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Most of these deaths have not been age-related, though...

I'm not ruling out coincidence - but there have been so many non-age-related deaths in the past two years with causes ranging from starvation to puncture wounds to poisoning.

Most people would never hurt animals. But it's starting (emphasis on the word starting) to look kind of weird (to me).