Apparently, Seattle's love of animals does not extend beyond mammals.

It has been a commonplace in our home for some years that local TV news shows love to open with a story about a sick baby and end with a story about a dog. This has held true through the several places I have previously lived (San Diego, The Greater Los Angeles Metroplex, and Central California), but Seattle is curiously intense about its dogs (it appears to have been settled by a group of nomadic dog people in the mid-nineteenth century), so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that they have taken the Heartwarming Dog Story to the next level.

The local news recently featured a story about a dog, Leo, who resecued a litter of kittens from a burning building, then had to be revived due to smoke inhalation.

To be fair - and to put the dog people in their place - a cat, Scarlett, also did this.  Of course, this wasn't to rescue puppies, per se...  And, in defense of dog people, at least hey didn't write a fucking poem about Leo.

As Dave Berry would say:  I am not making this up.   I suppose I should just be grateful that the media aren't bothering us with pesky details about the Iraq War, eh?

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