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A stoned feline in the bong - Shadow lives to purr another day.

One of those humourous stories touched with sadness - or a sad story touched with humour? You take your pick!

A Nebraska, USA, man claimed he stuffed his girlfriend's cat, Shadow, into a makeshift marijuana bong in an attempt to calm it down, as it had worked previously.

The man said he had never intended to hurt the cat - he liked animals. He said he didn't want to discipline the cat by swatting or squirting water at it; and he didn't want to take it to an animal shelter because he feared it would be put down.

He said he had put the cat into the pipe three times in the last week and the cat had "acted like a stoned person".

He said he realised it was the wrong thing to do, and both he and his girlfriend were fined in court for animal cruelty.

But Shadow lived to purr another day!