WCLV listenrs love their pets - and they love the Pet News, heard every weekday morning at 7:25 a.m. EDT on WCLV.
Vote for your favorite story by e-mail at "queenofthemorn@gmail.com." The winner will be announced at 7:20 a.m. EDT on Monday, October 11.
Your candidates from the week of October 3 - 7 are:
(1) Rani, a Bhutanese cow owned by a Bangladesh farmer, certified posthumously by Guinness World Records as the shortest cow ever, at 20 inches high. She weighed 57 pounds;
(2) Bud, a female Amazon green parrot whose owners in the UK put her on a diet during lockdown, after she became so overweight (Bud loves potato chips) that when she tried to fly, the dropped to the floor. She has now slimmed down considerably;
(3) A barn owl in the UK that fell into a bucket of molasses on a sheep farm and was rescued. Molasses is used as an energy booster for sheep and goats. No one saw the owl land in the bucket, but it is suspected that the owl was pursuing a rodent that was attracted to the molasses;
(4) Boji, a stray dog in Istanbul, Turkey, that has become so familiar with the local public transportation system that he uses several means - bus, subway, train, and the ferry - nearly every day. The local transportation authority uses a tracker to check his movements, which is why they know that Boji stops off at least 29 metro stations each day. He now has his own Twitter and Instagram accounts.