I love happy stories. A dog named Leo stayed behind in a burning home in Melbourne, Australia, to guard a box of kittens! Four family members and one dog escaped the fire.

One family member said “But Leo was still inside standing over the kittens, and we were scared he would get burned,” she said. “We couldn’t find Sabrina (mother of the kittens) and we thought they would all die.”

The children sobbed with relief when firefighters rescued and revived 11-month-old Leo.

“Then we were told there was a box of kittens still in there, and firefighters returned to grab them too.” Cdr Brown said.

He said Leo licked the kittens with joy when he saw them. “It was a wonderful sight,” he said.

The kittens were unharmed because a cover on their box stopped them suffering smoke inhalation.

Yaaay!

Read the local report on (with video) here.

Getting older doesn’t necessarily mean you have to get crazier but sometimes it gets you the attention you crave. Take former astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin. His input on the topic of the first manned mission to Mars was to leave them there.

“At age 30, they are given an opportunity. If they accept, then we train them, at age 35, we send them. At age 65, who knows what advances have taken place. They can retire there, or maybe we can bring them back.”

Holy crap. You’re kidding, right? If anyone knows what it would be like to be in a dead, cold and extremely dangerous environment it would be Buzz. Granted, he went to a giant rock and the potential of ice crystals on Mars may lead to larger areas where we could draw out H20 and possibly even O2. But, to stay there? You’d be asking these astronauts to give up their lives. No chance for a life of their own, no spouse or children, to leave the very planet they know for ever? Buzz, Buzz, Buzz. Come on, dude. Be a normal old coot and get some cats and watch a lot of Matlock. The grand kids will be over to feed you soon.

via  AFP

Who doesn’t love a good accident scene? I know I do. So does Dave Ference, the creator of the web site TruckSpills.com. Picture after glorious picture of various things spilled by trucks over the years, throughout the world. The image below is what happens to a major interstate near Boston after someone spills orange dye on it.