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Clean Cats eclipse Suns – bay 93.9 Geelong

Clean Cats eclipse Suns - bay 93.9 Geelong

CLEAN ball movement in trying conditions has helped Geelong to a convincing AFLW practice match win over the Gold Coast.

The Cats ran out 36-point winners over the Suns, 8.4 (52) to 2.4 (16), as persistent rain fell on the outer ground at Metricon Stadium.

“A lot of our focuses over the last two or three months – and even towards the back end of last season – around our ball movement to make sure that we’re a bit more clean and efficient, those signs were really evident today, which is really promising,” coach Dan Lowther told Geelong Broadcasters

“In trying conditions, they moved the ball quite well at times.

“And our new players that we’ve brought into the team over the last 12-18 months added a bit of class around the ball and (on) the outside.

“Our efficiency moving the ball from one end of the ground to the other allowed for a cleaner game, even though the conditions would have come otherwise normally.”

Several players who pulled on a Geelong jumper for the first time stood out for Lowther, who has a relatively injury-free list to pick from.

“Shelley Scott played down back for us and was a really solid contributor,” he said.

“Her experience and her smarts down there really steadied the ship at times for us, which is pleasing.

“Jackie Parry up forward tried really hard.

“Her composition at the ball was really important at times.

“Mikayla Bowen on the wing did a very good job in the first half.”

Geelong got through the match injury-free, although Geelong fans watching the live stream may have been concerned when captain Meg McDonald was forced from the ground during the last quarter.

“(It was) just a really good upper-thigh cramp,” he said. “It looked like she’d gone down for the count.

“She had some issues cramping early.

“We had 20-minute flat quarters today, so less rotations meant she played longer minutes.

“She’ll be fine.”

Geelong starts AFLW Season 7 against Richmond at GMHBA Stadium on Sunday, August 28.

Image: Geelong AFLW recruit Mikayla Bowen in action during the Cats’ practice match win over Gold Coast. (Geelong Cats Image/David McPherson)

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Stolen bodega cat returned to its owners at Brooklyn deli

Stolen bodega cat returned to its owners at Brooklyn deli

It’s a purrfect ending to the tale of Boka, the stolen bodega cat.

A mysterious intermediary returned the feline to the Green Olives Deli & Grill in Park Slope a week after a catnapper grabbed the gray kitty outside the Seventh Avenue shop.

Abdulmajeed Albahri, one of three owners of the bodega, said he was reunited with Boka at 5 am Saturday when he arrived an hour before the store opened for the day.

“He was waiting exactly in front of the doors,” Albahri said, adding he spent the next hour playing with the cat and giving him treats.

Video posted to the cat’s KediBoka Instagram account shows the kitty looking up expectantly as his owner opened the deli door to see him.

But how Boka came back is still not clear.

He went missing on July 29 when video captured a man dressed in khakis, a white shirt and a light blue hat lingering outside the store. He is seen scooping up the cat and spiriting him off.

Appeals to get Boka back, along with photos of the fiend, were posted to TikTok and Instagram. The cat’s disappearance also garnered wide media attention.

Boka was returned at 5 am one morning outside the bodega.
A stolen cat was returned to a warehouse in Park Slope.
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Boka was retuned at 5 am on a Saturday morning.
Abdulmajeed Albahri was reunited with Boka one hour before the bodega opened for business on Saturday.
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The spotlight paid off.

“There was someone who came to the store yesterday and he told me he has news about the cat,” Albahri said Saturday. “He told me he was trying to convince the guy to return the cat.”

Albahri said the Good Samaritan did not provide many details and he didn’t get the man’s name.

“I told him it’s OK for now. I just need my cat back,” he said.

Albahri with the posters asking for Boka's return.
Boka went missing on July 29 after video saw a man taking the cat from the bodega.
By 7:30 pm Friday Boka had been returned home to the bodega.
Albahri said someone had come in and said they were trying to convince the person who had stolen the cat to return it.
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By 7:30 pm Friday, the cat was once again at the deli home where he has lived since January and looked none the worse, Albahri said.

His fans even came to visit after Albahri posted the news on Boka’s Instagram page.

Albahri said Boka brings life to the store because he’s such an active cat, if not somewhat finicky.

“The cat food we sell in the store, sometimes he doesn’t like it,” he said.

Although a complaint had been filed with the NYPD about Boka’s disappearance, police said they did not have any updates Saturday on his return or an arrest.

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Tokyo heatwave inspires creation of wearable fans to help dogs and cats stay cool

A white cat sits inside wearing a portable fan.

A Tokyo clothing manufacturer has joined forces with veterinarians to create a wearable fan to help pets beat the heat.

Maternity clothing brand Sweet Mommy has created an 85-gram battery-operated fan for dogs and cats to wear.

The fan attaches to a mesh outfit and blows air around their bodies.

Clothing brand president Rei Uzawa said the fans were designed for dogs and cats that could not shed their fur coats in Japan’s blistering summer weather.

Tokyo recorded its longest heatwave on record in June, with temperatures of up to 35 degrees Celsius for nine days.

A small brown dog wears a circular portable fan and a white vest.
The fans have been designed to keep dogs cool during walks in the summer heat. (Reuters: Issei Katō)

Ms Uzawa said seeing her pet Chihuahua exhausted by the summer heat had motivated the invention.

“There was almost no rainy season this year, so the hot days came early, and in that sense, I think we developed a product that is right for the market,” she said.

Ms Uzawa said since the fans were released in July she had received about 100 orders.

She said the fans were available in five different sizes and sold for 9,900 yen ($107).

One small brown dog wears a pink jacket with a fan and is sitting next to a white dog wearing a blue jacket and fan.
The portable fans come in five different sizes and weigh 85 grams. (Reuters: Issei Katō)

Mami Kumamoto, who has a miniature poodle named Pudding and a terrier named Maco, said she usually used dry ice packs to keep her dogs cool.

She said she believed the fans would make it easier to walk her dogs in the summer heat.

Reuters

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