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From the Pet News "Board of Elections" - WCLV listeners vote for their favorite story.

Help Choose WCLV's Pet News of the Week!

Photo: Dina Belenko/Shutterstock.com

Please vote for one of the following five stories by (1) sending an e-mail to jgerber@ideastream.org or (2) calling the WCLV Contest Line at 1-800-343-WCLV (9258) and leaving a message. The winner will be announced on WCLV Monday, Jan. 31, at 7:20 a.m. EST and posted here.

Your candidates:


  1. In England, Millie, the Jack Russell terrier and whippet mix, who was lured away from dangerous mud flats by a sausage attached to a drone;
  2. Tony, the tree frog found in a container of romaine lettuce by the singer-songwriter Simon Curtis, and who is now being kept as a pet;
  3. Methuselah, a 40-pound female Australian lungfish believed to be around 90 years old, is thought to be the oldest living aquarium fish in the world. Methuselah, who likes to eat prawns and figs, lives at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco;
  4. The Turkish dairy farmer who is giving his cows in the barn Virtual Reality goggles that display a green pasture in order to relax the bovines and increase milk production;
  5. Snort, the pet pig who is believed to be 24 years old, which would make him the world’s oldest pig. His family, of Knoxville, Tenn., has contacted Guinness World Records and is working to document Snort’s age.
jacqueline.gerber@ideastream.org | 216-916-7160