Good News Thursday: Little League batter consoles upset pitcher, ‘guard cat’ is credited with preventing a robbery
Good News Thursday: Little League batter consoles upset pitcher, 'guard cat' is credited with preventing a robbery.
Little League batter consoles upset pitcher
A Little League batter consoled an upset pitcher in a dramatic scene at a Little League regional tournament game on Tuesday in Waco, Texas.
Righthander Kaiden Shelton was facing batter Isaiah Jarvis when an 0-2 pitch got away from him and slammed into Jarvis’ helmet. Jarvis then fell to the ground and didn’t walk back to first base until his head had cleared. Meantime, Shelton stood on the mound in tears over what had happened.
After a few moments, Jarvis walked up to Shelton, put his arms around him and told him, “Hey, you’re doing great. Let’s go.”
This gesture drew a standing ovation from the public and ended with Shelton’s teammates and coach gathered around the pair to join in consoling the righty.
‘Guard cat’ is credited with preventing a robbery
A Mississippi 68-year-old man claimed his pet cat helped prevent a robbery at his home, and said the calico possibly even saved his life.
The 20-pound cat called Bandit was at hers and Fred Everitt’s home when at least two people tried breaking in. The cat did everything she could to alert Everitt of the danger by meowing and pulling the comforter off of her owner and clawing at his arms.
“You hear of guard dogs, this is a guard cat,” Everitt said. “She had never done that before. I went, ‘What in the world is wrong with you?'”
Everitt went to investigate and saw two young men, one holding a handgun and the other one using a crowbar to try to open the door. According to Everitt, by the time he retrieved a handgun and was back to where the would-be intruders were, they had already fled.
“It did not turn into a confrontational situation, thank goodness,” Everitt said. “But I think it’s only because of the cat.”
Baby hippo is born at Cincinnati Zoo
The Cincinnati zoo is celebrating the birth of a hippopotamus that is sibling to Fiona, a global celebrity who was born prematurely in 2017.
The baby hippo who was born on Aug. 3. The staff at Cincinnati Zoo discovered the calf’s mother was pregnant on April Fool’s Day, and reacted surprised to the news as Bibi was on birth control.
“Bibi and the baby, yet to be named, will spend the next two weeks bonding behind the scenes,” said Christina Gorsuch, Cincinnati Zoo’s director of animal care in a news release. “A female would take her newborn away from the bloat for about that amount of time in the wild, and we try to give Bibi the choice to do what feels natural to her.”
The zoo has seen an increase in visitors and social media views after Fiona’s birth to which some animal rights groups responded to by criticizing the zoo for marketing a captive animal.