Monday Cafe

If only this were real.

Forensics search border collie activates the super-sniffer.

TSA dog's retirement day.

Flashdance (turtle version).

Minding junior.

Seal grabs a nap.

Horror movie jump scare.

Einstein puppy.

Cats in odd positions.

Kitten twiddles its masters thumb.

Standing room only.

Reportedly, seven dogs were stolen from their owners but escaped and made the ten mile journey back home.

A group of seven dogs bravely returned home to their owners in a near-ten-mile trek after being stolen, Dextero reports.

A viral video shows the pack, which includes Golden Retrievers, German Shepherds and Corgis, walking along the Changchun Highway in the province of Changchun, Jilin in China. According to South China Morning Post, the video has been viewed more than 230 million times, and shows the dogs fleeing along the busy road. The pets were allegedly stolen by thieves working at a dog meat shop.

On March 16, a witness, named Lu, recorded the pack and tried to lead them to safety, but was ignored. The dogs, including one who had an injured leg, were shown following a Corgi, who occasionally looked back to ensure that no one went astray.

"They resemble a band of little brothers in distress, moving in unison -- nothing like stray dogs," Lu told Dahe Daily.

Sounds cute, but in addition to AI slop, one kind of fake story I see on Twitter is where they take real video but just completely invent a fake but poignant narrative to go along with it. Like a video will say "He saved this baby turtle, and later, it saved his life," and then they just assemble bits and pieces of different videos about different turtles culminating with the turtle calling 911. And they don't show the turtle dialing 911. They just tell you this happened.

Do I believe this viral story from a foreign outlet I've never heard of? Let's just say that around the holidays I allow myself to entertain the possibility of Santa.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:30 PM

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