Animals, Animals, Animals... and Faking Your Own Kidnapping

In this week's Odder News, the cutest animals you'll see all week, the creepiest cats you'll see all week, and faking your own kidnapping is (unsurprisingly) ill-advised.

• Don't miss the cutest video you'll watch all week: a whole bunch of ducklings following their mother through the perilous streets and waterways of Krasnoyarsk. A local man stopped traffic on the super-busy BKZ highway to allow the family to pass. After that, the ducklings still struggle to follow Mom – who can fly – over a big concrete barrier and into a stream. Check out the video here. It is even cuter if you turn on the audio and listen to the men looking on.
• Fedya the Cat from the Rostov region became Instagram famous in June with his cartoonish face and crossed eyes, which make him look perpetually surprised. He even made it to the pages of the United Kingdom's Mirror. The runt of the litter was left behind by his mother and adopted by a foster cat father, who taught him all kinds of "important cat activities." Now, Fedya jumps a lot, earning him the nickname Spider-Man, and he loves to do the splits, earning him the nickname Jean-Claude Van Cat – after that awesome truck commercial. After the ducklings, these will be the second cutest videos you will watch all week.
• A Novosibirsk man heard his black sphynx cat yowling from a dumpster when he came home late at night. Since the man lives alone, he thought his cat must have fallen from the 11th floor. Upon unlocking his door, however, he discovered that his cat, Zeus, was at home. In his arms, he carried a copy. Although seemingly unrelated, the two quickly started washing each other. The man named the second cat Set/Seth, after the Egyptian god of chaos and destruction. Since Seth is not his cat, though, the ancient mythology lover has widely publicized his ad to find the owner. If you are missing a black sphynx cat, be sure to contact Komsomolskaya Pravda in Novosibirsk!
• There is nothing the blogosphere will not do for attention. A 23-year-old blogger from Kharkiv faked her own kidnapping in order to escape her Moscow boyfriend that she no longer wanted and take up with another. Oh yeah, and the supposed abductors demanded a ransom be paid in bitcoin – just to involve all of the questionable new technologies. She and her new sugar daddy are in jail together after faking a kidnapping – which is not something you can legally do, FYI.