From an unlikely suspect caught at a liquor store breaking bottles in Virginia to a golden retriever stealing a cake from a rural farm store, this week’s headlines shone a light on how animals tend to walk on the wild side, at least sometimes.
Good or bad, we love them all, which is why we can’t end the week without showing off our readers’ pets.
Think your pet deserves to be featured? Read through to find out how to enter your furry companions to Newsweek’s Pet of the Week.
Winner
This week’s winner left us cracking up with his acting skills.
When the house became eerily quiet, owner Vernon Cole looked for his dog, Charlie. He walked into the living room and saw Charlie frozen. Cole knew that look. Charlie got into something he should not have and proceeded to back up slowly.
The video shows Charlie trying to avoid eye contact. He knew he was in the wrong, but attempted to play it off cool. In his mind, if he blended in, maybe the owner would think he was innocent.
Finalists
To start this week’s finalists, we have owner Lori Moore’s cat, Ewok, who was born in her home. Panic set in around six months when she found Ewok with his left eye hanging out of his eye socket, she told Newsweek.
“I took him to the vet,” she said. “[The vet] said he either got hurt by playing with another cat or he pulled it out by scratching it.”
This led to an expensive emergency surgery lasting about two hours. He lost the entire eye, but Moore found that it never slowed him down. Even with strict orders not to run, play or jump, Ewok didn’t listen and got the zoomies. He loves attention and will walk around the house “talking” until Moore calls him over.
“He was very sure he wasn’t going to let his disability be a disability,” Moore said. “He’s been zooming ever since, and he’s 5 now.”
Next up, Patches. Owner Angela Smith told Newsweek that Patches first started coming around to her house last winter, and being a cat lover, she couldn’t stand the thought of him being in the cold.
“He came around so often after we started leaving food for him,” she said. “I got a warm cat house that eventually he started staying in, and a warm cat bowl, and he has been around since.”
Other neighbors also left food out for him, but Patches instead picked the Smith family to make a home. They will bring him inside, but he mostly enjoys coming and going. He’ll greet the family when he returns. Patches also loves following them when they walk around the nature preserve near their house.
“We really love our little buddy; he is good around our pets,” she said.
Last, but not least, is Moose, a 10-year-old Scottie mix, who still has nothing but puppy energy and a healing heart.
Owner Mary Paddock told Newsweek that Moose was first dumped near her house in 2016. She heard the dog’s heartbreaking cry after the owners drove off. When she called, “Here puppy, puppy,” Moose came running toward her, matted, filthy and shivering.
He loves it when the family tosses him into a paper-filled box and lightly closes the flaps. She said he’ll zoom around inside it like a cat and pop out. Even as a senior dog, he’ll get zoomies frequently.
Aside from his young-at-heart attitude, Moose has blended into the family as one who knows how to make everyone feel safe and protected. Moose and her son instantly fell in love, staying attached at the hips. Moose quickly became her son’s “anchor” during a difficult time in life. Whenever someone is feeling sick or panicked, Moose steps in and to offer hugs.
If you think your pet could be next week’s Newsweek “Pet of the Week,” send us your funny and heartwarming videos and pictures of your pet, along with a bit about them, to life@newsweek.com, and they could appear in our “Pet of the Week” lineup.
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