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:: The brave pig
 JoAnne Altsman, 57, of Beaver Falls, Pittsburgh, began having a heart attack in her holiday trailer on Presque Isle in Erie, Pennsylvania, on 4 August 1998. Her American Eskimo dog, Bear, did nothing but bark and break a bedroom window; but LuLu, her Vietnamese pot-bellied pig, rose to the occasion.
:: The doe is patroling
 Mopsy The Rabbit, a two-year-old Orange Rex doe, landed a burglar in court after raising the alarm by frantically thumping with her foot during a break-in at her owners' house in Fetcham, Surrey, on 30 June.
:: Strucked by lightning
 Viewers watching the last 12 minutes of a televised Castle Premiership football match between the Moroka Swallows and Jomo Cosmos in the George Gogh Stadium, Johannesburg, saw a group of players collapse suddenly after being struck by lightning.
:: Frog shower
 An unnamed pensioner called the Meteorological Office at Bracknell on 4 March to inform them that an early-morning shower over her house in Shirley, Croydon, south London, had been accompanied by a large number of dead frogs, which were scattered over her garden, her neighbour's house, and nearby streets.
:: The Crocodiles
 Whatever devastated the terrestrial environments 65 million years ago and exterminated the dinosaurs, it failed to force into extinction the ultimate survivors, the Crocodiles.
:: Shark Attack!
 The first sharks appeared on earth about 400 million years ago. Today there are more than 360 known species of sharks.
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The Doe Is Patroling
by
Marianna Kommata
Mopsy The Rabbit, a two-year-old Orange Rex doe, landed a burglar in court after raising the alarm by frantically thumping with her foot during a break-in at her owners' house in Fetcham, Surrey, on 30 June.
The family pet came to the rescue at three in the morning as Robert Jenkins, his wife Anne and their three children were sound asleep. "Suddenly I was awakened by a noise coming from the garage below our bedroom," said Mr Jenkins, 46, a civil engineer. "Mopsy was thumping like mad on the floor of her hutch. I jumped out of bed and ran to the window to see what was the matter and saw two people with a flashlight. I immediately dialled 999, but by then they were speeding off on their bikes." Police raced to the scene and one of the intruders, Louise Hazeltine, 23, was caught nearby. Shreddie, the family's Airedale, slept through it all. "This is not the first time Mopsy has deliberately woken us in the middle of the night," said Mrs Jenkins, 44, a prospective Labour candidate for the elections to the European parliament. "Last time was when we left the garage door open. She kept drumming until we got up and closed it."
Hazeltine, six months pregnant, appeared at Guildford Crown Court, Surrey, on two charges of burglary and two of theft. She was put on probation for two years. Mopsy was given a large carrot.
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