With so many pet stories around the web each week it’s hard to keep up. Table Scraps is our weekly roundup of memorable pet news around the internet.

• In honor of Hurricane Earl, let’s all learn how to batten down the hatches in order to keep our pets safe in windier times. Please don’t kid yourself into thinking Toto had all that much fun on the ride over. (The Herald News)

• Considering this happened in Ireland, I’m just going to go out on a limb and say this cat was drunk and didn’t realize he was boarding a train.  We’ve all been there.  Often.  (Boing Boing)

• Between the kick ass toy xylophone and the iconic Rock-a-Stack, the level of nauseatingly cute photographs I can take of my cats doing people things just shot through the flippin’ roof. (Pet Sugar)

• I’m pretty sure My Dog Tulip is My Weekend of Tears. (NPR)

• Ladies and gentlemen, I’m super happy to introduce to you, Nico SwanGarris of Indianapolis, Indiana.   (L.A. Unleashed)

• Apparently vegetables are good for animals and when they spend the entire meal shuffling them around the dinner bowl, it’s just plain darling, not maddening.   (The Huffington Post)

Image:  Rowdy Kittens