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One of my co-workers keeps calling another co-worker Misty, although her name is actually Mitzi.

“I’m sorry,” she explains. “Misty is my roommate’s cat and I mix up the names in my mind.”

“Do you ever call the cat Mitzi?” I ask.

“Sometimes, but not as often as I call Mitzi Misty.”

“Does the cat respond when you call her Mitzi?”

“No, but she doesn’t respond when I call her Misty either.”

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Found a cute photo pool on Flickr: Cat and Dog : not Cat or Dog, please read the guidelines!

PULLMAN, Wash. — A 6-year-old border collie died in a house fire after waking up his owner out of a deep sleep to warn her of the blaze.

Marilyn Harvey and her son, Brent, rushed out the basement door, but Sandler turned back. Marilyn’s husband, John Harvey, who was in Seattle at the time of the fire, thinks it was because Sandler wanted to save the family’s 17-year-old Australian shepherd, who was still inside the house.

Both dogs died in last Friday’s fire, along with a bird named Kellogg. A cat named Raja escaped unharmed.

As for Hitler, he comes in for a lot of criticism — much of it justified, in my opinion — but at least he did something with his life. He didn’t just sit around laughing at pictures of cats, like a simpleton.

— Harry Hutton