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Waxman Staff Writer Mar 25, 2015 6:08 PM UTC Police found two elephants trying to keep the 18-wheeler transporting them from overturning during its journey from New Orleans to the Dallas area Tuesday morning. The truck, carrying three elephants from a Florida circus, got stuck in mud on Interstate 49 near the Powhatan exit in Natchitoches Parish, La., at about 7 a.m., [according to](http://www.npsheriff.org/News%5FArticle.aspx?ArticleID=729) a statement from the Natcitoches Parish Sheriff’s Office. A “local wrecker service” was called in to extract the truck. The elephants were en route to a circus in Frisco, Texas.  Natcitoches Parish Sheriff's Office  Natcitoches Parish Sheriff's Office (h/t [ABC News](http://abcnews.go.com/US/elephants-rescue-stuck-18-wheeler-louisiana/story?id=29883947)) ### Wildlife Smuggled Through Airport Security  A baby tiger cub is found in the suitcase of a woman flying from Bangkok to Iran, at Suvarnabhumi Airport, in Bangkok, Thailand. Authorities at the airport found the baby tiger cub that had been drugged and hidden among stuffed toy tigers in the suitcase. Photo release Aug. 22, 2010. Suvarnabhumi Airport Wildlife Checkpoint/AP  U.S. customs inspectors at Los Angeles International Airport seized a shipment of several dozen live Giant African snails seen inthis photo released on July 14, 2014, considered a delicacy in Nigeria but also pests that can eat paint and stucco off houses. Handout/Reuters  A Dutch traveller was caught trying to smuggle more than a dozen live hummingbirds in special pouches sewn into the inside of his underwear at Rochambeau airport on Sept, 28, 2011 in Cayenne, French Guiana. The birds were individually wrapped in cloth and taped up to prevent them from escaping. Whitehotpix/ZumaPress  A crocodile native to India is shown to the press during a news conference in Bangkok on June 2, 2011\. Thai customs authorities say 431 turtles and other rare reptiles were stuffed into four suitcases and smuggled into the Bangkok airport. Apichart Weerawong—AP  An Australian man was caught with two pigeons hidden in his pants on a flight from Dubai to Melbourne, Australia on Feb 1, 2009\. The 23-year-old man was questioned by Customs after two eggs and some seeds were found in a vitamin container in his luggage. A search of his body found two live pigeons wrapped in padded envelopes and held to the man's legs with a pair of tights. Australian Customs Service/AP  An officer from Singapore's Immigration and Custom Authority holds one of many star tortoise which were found in the hand luggage of an Indian national at Singapore's Changi Airport on Sept. 15, 2003\. An Indian national was apprehended for illegal possessing 499 endangered star tortoises. 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The lizards were smuggled into Hong Kong along with 18 Philippine pond turtles and 13 Asian box turtles. Bullit Marquez—AP  A plane passenger with dozens of deadly tarantula spiders hidden in his luggage was arrested as he tried to smuggle the spiders past customs officials in Zurich Airport, Switzerland. The spiders were endangered Mexican red kneed tarantulas, and are understood to have died of cold during the flight. Newscom ## Transcript [00:00] [ MUSIC ] I'm Christina [00:06] Ha. And I'm one of the founders of Meow Parlour. And [00:09] I'm Emilie Legrand and I'm one of the founders of [00:13] Meow Parlour. I [00:18] had visited cat cafes in France and in Japan before. [00:22] And so, because we both love cats. And we were sad [00:26] we couldn't get to a cat cafe in New York, so if you're [00:29] sad you just build it. [ LAUGH ] We partnered with a [00:33] rescue group called kitty kind they're based out of the [00:36] union square pet co. They're a non profit all volunteer [00:40] no kill shelter [ MUSIC ] [00:43] Kitty Kind handles all of our adoptions for us. So [00:46] they're the ones who know the cats best and [00:48] understand their personalities. Through the exposure [00:53] we really hope they get adopted. And if it urns out for [00:55] some reason they don't like you know, other cats. They [00:58] don't like people. Then, we're already home, then, into [01:01] the proper situation. For the moment, we have [01:06] seven cats, and we're planning on having a dozen cats. [01:08] Gillian, Sqwinkles, Spot, Liza, Luck Eleven, Kirsten and [01:09] Marley. Marley. We're cat ladies. [01:15] [ LAUGH ] Yeah. I mean we love cats and. [01:22] I've had cats all my life so I'm really trying [01:26] to make sure they are really comfortable here. Our [01:28] residential super cat lady. [ LAUGH ] So [01:33] we have these cats that have like really different quirks [01:35] to them. 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