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You know it's going to be a strange week when a dog gives a cat a blood transfusion.

Izzy and her pink ball. By Cathie Mason.

It's not the only cat in the news this week – Dean Barker's needed a buoyancy transfusion, after it nosedived under the water instead of rising up over it. You get that, when you put the bows on upside down.
At the risk of pointing out the obvious to Grant Dalton, we can see why the boat is tending to nose dive. They've put the front bits on the wrong way around. I know this sounds like a lecture from Boat Design 101 but the idea of the bow is to have some overhang, so when it drives into waves, the bow will tend to rise up, NOT be driven deeper. Even Noah understood this, and could foresee the issue when the elephants wandered up to the front of the Ark which tended to dip the bows a little lower into the water. He wasn't concerned about hobby-horsing. In fact he invited two on board. Now all you yacht racing aficionados out there will be tut-tutting, saying 'reverse wave piercing bows are to improve aerodynamics, reduce hull resistance through waves and reduce
pitching motion”.
Well that's all very nice, but it's not a lot of use when your catamaran is cartwheeling down San Francisco Bay, scaring the whitebait. Speaking of whitebait, stocks are dwindling as the season got underway this week.
Riverbank rumours include matching catch limit to the snapper proposal – three fish each.
Which would make a fritter about the size of a teaspoon. Better option: Ban the amateur sale of whitebait. Only take what you intend to consume. It is crazy this is the only fish that can be caught in bulk and hocked for tax-free cash.
If you have any examples of inter-species co-operation, great photos of cats getting along with dogs, or even hobby horses – send them in to share with Newshound's readers. We'll publish the best and they might even win a prize! Photos@thesun.co.nz

- Flo