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.

• Birds of a feather, flock to the Upper West Side. (New York Times)
• Your dog is sporting this season’s hottest fabric and it doesn’t even know it. (Wall Street Journal)
• Well clearly the Cat Hugging Kitten video needed to be broken down and smothered in reality. (National Geographic)
• Dogs ask Ashton Kutcher to put his tweeting powers to good use. (PR Newswire)
• Rat fashion and rat rights? Must be Rat Convention 2011. (Rat and Rave)

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