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Here's my first contribution. One thing I always liked about the Brits is their dottiness about their critters. I can relate!
Dog lovers skipping work to nurse pets
Dog-loving Britons have taken 2.7 million working days off to care for their sick pets over the past two years, according to a survey.
Ten per cent of owners missed five days of work, with half of these taking up to two weeks off to look after their pets.
Britons are so concerned about their dogs' wellbeing that 55 per cent admitted they paid more attention to sick pets than an ill partner.
Fifty-three per cent of owners also said they bought their dogs a present if their pets were feeling under the weather.
The survey, for Direct Line Pet Insurance, polled 750 British dog owners.
-Reuters
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Conclusion : It's better to be a pet than a human being !
I soooo wish I had never read about that!
Olga - yecccchhhh! Well, that's it - I'm not going to Germany - just too messy!
..Thank you mister "Veteran Msolga" for your friendly welcome.
And forgive my english, it's not my native language and i'm not really good at
ROME (Reuters) - A second hand car once said to be registered in the name of Joseph Kardinal Ratzinger -- the new Pope Benedict - is up for sale on eBay and the sky seems to be the limit when it comes to bidding.
The vehicle, a metallic gray 1999 Volkswagen Golf, went up for auction on the German site (www.ebay.de) at a minimum price of 9,900 euros ($12,790) Wednesday and, just over 24 hours and more than 300 bids later, the price had temporarily hit one million euros ($1.3 million).
German Web Site n-tv.de identified the seller as Benjamin Halbe, 21, from the town of Olpe in Germany's Sauerland region, who said he bought the car from a local dealer in January.
"It drives like heaven," the site quoted Halbe as saying.
The Web Site of the German newspaper Bild quoted an eBay spokeswoman in Germany as saying the online auctioneer had checked with the vehicle licensing office which had confirmed the name of the original owner was genuine.
Ratzinger, who is from Bavaria in southern Germany, has been at the Vatican for more than two decades and is not known to drive. The Vatican was not available for comment on the auction, which closes on May 5 at 7.30 p.m. (1730 GMT).
The auction site describes the vehicle as a two liter petrol-powered manual, with 75,000 km (47,000 miles) on the clock since it was first registered in March 1999.
"Does black smoke or white smoke come out of the exhaust pipe?" one posting on the site asked - a reference to the signal used at the Vatican to show whether a new pope has been elected by the secret conclave of cardinals.
"Very funny," was the reply.
"It drives like heaven," the site quoted Halbe as saying.
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