– Even their cats are refined: It seems that George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer of the British Parliament, lost his pet hamster at Downing Street. After searching the premises for about a fortnight (I’m running out of Britishisms here), his cat, Freya, located the little dude by “meowing at an electricity box.” Not ripping the thing open and chowing down on aged hamster, like an uncouth American cat might do.

– Dogs, meanwhile…: Six years ago, a woman lost her wedding ring. A few weeks ago, she found it again—in her dog’s barf:

“He was making goofy noises, and was acting like he was going to throw up,” Matykowski said. Matykowski’s husband, Don, got Tucker out on the yard, and Tucker threw up.

When Matykowski walked up to Tucker’s vomit with cleaning supplies in her hands, she spotted something sparkly.

There it was– her diamond ring that disappeared six years ago.

“I screamed. I kid you not,” Matykowski said.

Matykowski brushed the ring very gently with a soft toothbrush and toothpaste, and it looked exactly the same just like six year ago.

– Meanwhile, in Florida: Police in Florida—because where else?—arrested a man for animal cruelty and domestic battery after, during “an incident that started over an argument about women’s rights with his girlfriend,” he punched and choked her 9-month-old rabbit, Bun Bun. I, uh……yeah, I got nothin’.

– From King’s Landing to Chicago: I don’t mean to make light of a tragic story, but it has some very serious Westerosi overtones to it. A teenager has been charged with murder in the death of her infant son, whom she allegedly told police she left in a trash can because he looked like her ex-boyfriend–and she didn’t want her current boyfriend (who thought he was the biological father) to find out. I’m not sure even George R.R. Martin’s characters are that cold.

– And in the “getting out of jail free” category: A mother in the UK came home to find her 16 year-old daughter with “ruffled hair and smudged lipstick,” and noticed a pair of men’s shoes near the girl’s bed. Then she found the girl’s 36 year-old teacher hiding under the bed.

This being the UK, no one got shot.

This being the Earth, the guy got no jail time, but rather a 14-month suspended jail sentence.