Please vote for one of the following four Pet News of the Week candidates 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, June 27 at 7:20 a.m. EDT and posted here. Your contenders:
- The male, 10-week-old gray kitten dubbed “Lucky,” who was rescued from a storm drain in Petersburg, Va., by playing cat sounds from a smartphone;
- Simba, the baby Nubian goat in Pakistan whose ears measure an exceptional 19 inches long, which is very long, even for a Nubian. The ears drag the ground when she walks;
- The dog who survived for 20 minutes when the convertible in which he was riding flipped over and landed upside-down in a canal near a road in Moyock, N.C. The firefighters who arrived had a towing company flip the car back onto its wheels, and heard whimpering coming from the front of the vehicle. The dog was recovered from an air pocket under the dash floorboard;
- Dexter, a dog from a Kansas City, Kan. suburb, whose owners boarded him at a pet hotel when they took a vacation to Las Vegas. Dexter jumped a 6-foot fence and a 4-foot retainer fence to escape the boarding facility, after which he ran home. The couple was notified via phone that their doorbell camera detected motion at the house, and that motion was provided by Dexter, who compliantly jumped into the pet hotel’s van, which arrived later to collect him.