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Underground Cat Does Not Want To Be Rescued

EAST WILLIAMSBURG – The NYPD attempted to rescue a cat reportedly stuck inside a manhole. Un-furr-tunately, the cat could not be rescued. On Saturday, August 3 at around 5 a.m., cops got a call for a cat stuck in a manhole on Metropolitan Avenue. The cat’s meows can be

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Adoptable Animal Of The Week: Ladybird The Cat

(Photo submitted by Sarah Shears)Looking for a new companion? Ladybird is sweet to the core, plus mellow and a low-maintenance pet. Neighbor Sarah Shears writes: We adopted Lady from Empty-Cages a little over 7 years ago. Our vet said she was probably about 3-5 years old, but was sort

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Help Who’s Your Doggy Design A Permanent Sign

What should the permanent sign look like? (Courtesy Instagram/MyrtleAveBklyn [https://www.instagram.com/p/BH4ssHhDYh-/])A neighborhood pet store is crowdsourcing its new sign and the creator of the winning design will get a reward! Who’s Your Doggy [/?s=who%27s+your+doggy] of 354 Myrtle Avenue, between

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Please Help Find Jack The Cat [UPDATE: The Cat Came Back]

Courtesy Jack’s owner/friend.Jack went missing recently from his home on Vanderbilt Avenue (between Greene and Gates Avenues), according to his owner Jennifer Fistere, who is asking that the neighborhood please keep a lookout. Jennifer says she rescued a newborn Jack from the street four years ago, and

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Cat Found Near Caton Avenue Playground

Photo via Richard CrawfordNeighbor Richard Crawford is looking for the owner of this beautiful feline. He writes, > We found this very friendly kitty in a little stress at the Caton Street playground by the soccer fields. He is clearly domesticated so we think someone may have lost him! If this

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Photo Of The Day: Sunbathing

Photo by crissachappell [https://www.instagram.com/crissachappell/]With the days getting shorter and shorter, you’ve got to get as much sun as you can! Share photos with us at editor@kensingtonbk.com or tag them #kensingtonbrooklyn on Instagram, and we’ll post them on the blog. Also, like

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Photo Of The Day: The Feline Mayor Of 6th Avenue

Photo by Donny Levit / South Slope NewsWe know who runs 6th Avenue near 11th Street. Take a photo in the neighborhood lately? Share it with us! Add it to our Flickr [http://www.flickr.com/groups/southslope] group, tag it #southslope on Instagram, or email it to editor@bklyner.com,

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Updated: Cat Found Outside The 18th Avenue Associated Reunited With Owner

Photo via Lost and Found Pets in Brooklyn [https://www.facebook.com/lostpetsinbrooklyn/photos/a.388934217874169.1073741828.388926341208290/663897943711127/?type=1&theater] .Updated 5:42pm: After this sweet cat was found outside the Associated [/animals/cat-found-living-in-a-box-on-18th-avenue-4th-street#.VdM6HogViko] at 18th Avenue and E. 4th Street, the folks at the grocery store

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Photo Of The Day: CAT

Photo by esthernilaboesche [https://instagram.com/p/1Ljuqht1cr/?taken-by=esthernilaboesche]Always wishing things like this, as photographed by esthernilaboesche [https://instagram.com/p/1Ljuqht1cr/?taken-by=esthernilaboesche], were signs for what’s behind the metal grate: cat! Take a photo in the neighborhood lately? Share it with us! Add it to

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Updated: Keep An Eye Out For Missing Cat, Last Seen On E. 18th Between Ditmas & Newkirk

Updated 11am: Great news! Honey emailed us to let us know that someone has just found her cat under a car, and she’s now en route to the vet to get him all checked out. We’re happy to hear the family has been reunited, and many thanks to

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Cat Found At 711 Ocean Avenue

Neighbor Matt Carter just let us know that he found a super friendly black cat wandering around the stairwell at 711 Ocean Avenue, and he’s trying to track down the sweet fella’s owner. “The animal appears to be healthy, well fed, and VERY friendly,” Matt wrote to us

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The Greeter

One of our neighborhood’s most content greeters, as photographed by jenblossom [http://instagram.com/p/rUVsyfhkL5/?modal=true]. Share photos with us at editor@ditmasparkcorner.com, in the Ditmas Park Corner Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/dpcorner], or tag them #ditmaspark on Instagram, and we’ll post

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Neighbors Trying To Find Owners Of 23rd Street Cat

Has your fur kid recently wandered off? Neighbor Kiah Vidyarthi and her roommate found this green-eyed fella on 23rd Street last weekend, and are doing everything they can to find the cat’s owners. Kiah says the cat, who they’ve dubbed Lil Bit, is very friendly and has a

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Photo Of The Day: Damn Paparazzi

Photo by mbakija Take any photos in South Slope recently? Share them with us! Add them to our Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/southslope], tag them #southslope on Instagram, or email them to us at editor@bklyner.com and we’ll post them on the blog. Looking for

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Great Gatsby! Kitten Rescued From Traffic Up For Adoption

Park Slope Veterinary Center [http://parkslopeveterinarycenter.vetstreet.com] has another adorable friend in need of a home. The 7-week-old kitten Gatsby [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=607610802591267&set=a.200109406674744.49803.199935930025425&type=1] , who was found by a good samaritan in traffic, has tested negative for FIV

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Foster Child’s Cat Searching for New Home

We’ve got a 15-18 month old cat in need of a family. According to an email exchange we received this morning, the little fella is up to date on all his shots, and has been neutered. Please see below for more information: > This cat has been a very beloved

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Photo of the Day: Asking for Trouble

A cat, a hula girl and a shell walk into a bar…. Have a neighborhood photo to share? Send it to editor@bklyner.com or add it to the South Slope News Flickr Group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/southslope/], and we’ll post it to the site.

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A Presidents Day Preview Of What’s To Come

A stray sunbathing on a lawn in Bensonhurst. Image courtesy of David Tan.Thanks to Erica Sherman [http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericasherman/sets/] from our sister site Sheepshead Bites, we recently learned of a local photographer named David Tan. David (often) uses a film camera rather than a digital

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Cat on Sheepshead Train Tracks

Reader Celeste Leibowitz sent this in last night: > Today around noon my husband and I were waiting for the Manhattan-bound Q train on the Sheepshead Bay station when we noticed a number of transit police on the platform. The Q train pulled in halfway and then stopped. It appeared someone