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USDA Uses 'Marriage Story' Scene To Teach Wolves ‘Humans Are Bad'
Cat Dubbed 'Leonardo da Pinchy' Is Stealing Neighbors' Underwear
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By Ben Hooper
July 24 (UPI) -- A New Zealand cat named Leo earned the nickname "Leonardo da Pinchy" after he was shown to be a literal cat burglar with a penchant for stealing underwear.
Owner Helen North said Leo, a 14-month-old Tonkinese, has brought home about 150 pilfered items in the past nine months.
"He brings home a lot of things. He doesn't do much with them once they are inside, he just dumps them on the floors and just goes about his business,"
she told Radio New Zealand.
North said Leo's favorite items to steal include underwear and socks, but he isn't too picky.
"A really expensive jersey with the tags still on, stuffed toys, loads of underpants
and socks, gardening gloves, activewear, hats, sports bras, shorts, East Coast Bays rugby socks, an All Blacks jersey ... every- thing, really," she told Stuff.co.nz.
She said Sundays are Leo's top days for crime, as that's when the neighborhood clothes lines are the most populated with easily-reach- able clothing items.
"Other than that, well, he's a kitten -- so he attacks everything, bites you, and wakes you up in the middle of the night," North said.
North said she uses a local Whatsapp group and Facebook groups to help her neighbors reclaim Leo's ill-gotten gains.
She said the largest thing Leo has brought home was a 5-foot-long stuffed snake.
"He brought that home twice so he obviously really really liked it," she said.
By Ben Hooper
Aug. 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture is using an argument scene from the 2019 film Marriage Story to scare wolves away from farms along the West Coast.
The scene, in which an estranged couple
played by Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver loudly and intensely vent their frustrations, is among several audio clips being used by the USDA to scare wolves away from livestock farms.
"I need the wolves to respond and know that, 'Hey, humans are bad,'"
Paul Wolf, a USDA district supervisor in Oregon, told the Wall Street Journal.
The drones being used to blast the audio have also been playing songs includ- ing AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" and Five Finger Death Punch's "Blue on Black," as well as sound effects like fireworks and gunshots.
Marriage Story, directed
by Noah Baumbach, was nominated for six Oscars at the 2020 Academy
Awards. Laura Dern, who played Johansson's charac- ter's lawyer, went home with the award for Best Supporting Actress.
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