Showing posts with label Challenger the Eagle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Challenger the Eagle. Show all posts

Saturday, October 4, 2008

TT's Saturday Matinee

OMC's! Thank Bast fer this lady in Siberia!?!?


A Russian woman has opened her tiny two-room apartment to strangers in need - she's taken in 130 stray cats. 50-year-old Nina Kostsovo lives in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk. She picked up her first street cat 15 years ago and has since not been able to let a cat in need pass by without helping it. Source: Reuters






But of course thats not the only case of wanting to lend a helping hand. Here in the USA in 2006 2 sisters were charged with hoarding 130 cats. Click HERE to read the story.


This is an PAWSOME music video...featuring a special free-flying Bald Eagle named 'Challenger' (in honor of the lost space shuttle crew) cared for by the non-profit American Eagle Foundation (AEF).

He's a 'human socialized' bird accidentally raised by the people who rescued him - after being blown from a wild Louisiana nest in a storm as a baby in the late 1980s. Declared 'non-releasable' by federal and state wildlife authorities, he was trained by the AEF to perform educational free-flight demonstrations at high profile public events

He's the first Bald Eagle in U.S. history that learned to free-fly into stadiums, arenas and ballrooms during the singing of the Star Spangled Banner. The celebrity eagle has appeared at numerous major sporting events...like the World Series, Pro-Bowl,

All-Star game, BCS National Championship, Fiesta Bowl and Men's Final Four, etc. Challenger has also flown before 4 U.S. Presidents! His life story is told in a children's storybook titled 'Challenger, America's Favorite Eagle.'

Did yoo know that June 20 of every year is American Eagle Day?