https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/nova-scotia-couple-welcomes-a-surprising-new-addition-a-green-puppy/ar-AAUjKTA?ocid=msedgntp

One Canadian couple just got a surprising gift ahead of St. Patrick's Day: a green puppy!

Audra Rhys and Trevor Mosher of Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, say they feared for the worst when their female valley bulldog—a boxer and bulldog hybrid—Freya gave birth to a black amniotic sac on Jan. 27. They assumed the puppy inside this oddly colored sac was stillborn because she arrived apart from the other seven healthy pups Freya delivered in clear sacs.

But then something amazing happened: the puppy started to move.

"We started to dry her off and noticed she was green and immediately again thought there was something wrong. So we Googled, 'My puppy is green, what's wrong,'" Rhys told Global News. Luckily, it turns out green puppies are very rare but otherwise normally healthy.

Specialist in veterinary reproduction Bronwyn Crane, DVM, MS, with the Atlantic Veterinary College at the University of Prince Edward Island, explained how the occurrence is incredibly rare.

"I don't know if I can find an exact rate of occurrence, but I would suspect it is [less than] 1:10,000," she told Global News, adding she hasn't come across a green puppy before.

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While we're not entirely sure why it happens, some light-colored pups may gain a green tint when they come into contact with a green pigment called biliverdin during development. Biliverdin, the same pigment that gives bruises their greenish hue, may on occasion contaminate the placenta and amniotic fluid and effectively dye a puppy's fur. (Just so everyone's clear: It's not artificial green dye applied after birth.)

Little Fiona, who Rhys and Mosher named after the lovable character in Shrek, is surely a miracle. But she isn't the first shamrock-colored pup to make the headlines.

Back in 2012 a golden-green Labrador puppy named Hulk was born in Lancashire, England. A pair of "Hulk pups" were also born in Spain in 2014. More recently, Forest, a green golden retriever pup, was born in the Scottish Highlands in 2017, followed by baby Pistachio born on the Italian island of Sardinia in 2020. At the time, Pistachio's human told the BBC he hoped his green puppy, clad in the color of luck and hope, would bring us all a little boost of positivity in the coming year of trying times.

While Fiona isn't the first green puppy to enter the world, Rhys says she feels very lucky to have been part of this rare event, and she'll have to savor the moment. Unfortunately, green puppies lose their unique coloring rather quickly as they grow.

Rhys says Fiona was initially a light lime green, but they've noticed the color fading. "She maybe has a week, maybe two or so, before it is completely unnoticeable," she tells Daily Paws.

According to Rhys, the couple plans on keeping Fiona or finding a forever home with a close family member if they cannot keep her. She adds it has been amazing to see the amount of people interested in Fiona's story and the joy she's brought to so many.

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she or it looks like farquad from shrek

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Fourteen people suffered gunshot wounds, one of whom died, after two people exchanged gunshots at a Las Vegas hookah lounge on Saturday, according to a statement from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

Police received multiple reports of a shooting at a hookah lounge around 3:15 a.m. When officers responded, they found 14 victims suffering from gunshot wounds, Las Vegas police said.

One man was pronounced dead and two other people are in critical condition, according to police.

The rest of the victims are in stable condition, according to police. Medical personnel transported the victims to UMC and Sunrise hospitals.

Preliminary investigation by police indicated that there was a party at the lounge where the shooting occurred when at least two individuals got into an altercation. They exchanged gunfire during the altercation, striking multiple people, police said.

Police said the investigation is ongoing and no arrests have been made.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-intel-agencies-are-debating-whether-putin-has-gone-mad-or-is-bluffing-to-disconcert-the-west-report-says/ar-AAUpy7i?ocid=msedgntp

US officials are questioning Putin's grip on reality as Russia attacks Ukraine, per the NYT.

Putin placed Russia's nuclear arsenal at a high alert on Sunday, raising the stakes in the conflict.

Some believe he may be acting crazy to deter action from the West, The Times reported.

US intelligence agencies are urgently debating the possibility that President Vladimir Putin of Russia has lost touch with reality, reported The New York Times Sunday.

It follows a series of erratic public performances by the Russian leader, and gained a new intensity after he increased Russia's level of nuclear readiness Sunday.

Last week, Putin in a televised national security council meeting humiliated and berated his foreign intelligence chief, Sergey Naryshkin.

Later, in a paranoid and grievance-filled speech broadcast moments before the launch of Russia's invasion of Ukraine last week, he sought to re-write history by denying that Ukraine exists as an independent country.

Putin had been previously seen as brutal but a coldly rational actor. Yet some believe that his isolation during the COVID pandemic, when he tightly restricted his interactions with the wider world, may have impacted his sense of reality.

His recent meetings with top officials and foreign leaders have been bizarre spectacles, with the Russian leader seated at one end of a huge table and the dignitaries at another in an apparent bid to keep infection at bay.

"He's out at his compound, doesn't come into town very much, and, under Covid, he's been more isolated," said Michael McFaul, a former US ambassador to Russia, in a Sunday appearance on NBC's "Meet The Press."

James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, echoed the view in a CNN interview. "I personally think he's unhinged," Clapper said. "I worry about his acuity and balance."

Another school of thought among US intelligence officials, according to the Times, is that Putin's behavior may be an elaborate bluff.

By this theory, he is acting the part of the madman in order to confuse and disconcert the West. According to the Times report, the assessment is part of a vast array of material being used by President Joe Biden's administration to judge its response.

It's a version of President Richard Nixon's so-called "madman theory," with the former US president in 1969 bluffing that he was willing to launch a nuclear strike on Vietnam. His hope — which did not come to pass — was that North Vietnamese leaders would quickly come to the negotiating table and end the Vietnam War.

Michael A Horowitz, a security analyst at Le Beck Institute, picked up on the idea. He wrote: "There is a 'Madman theory' in international relations, which is basically to intentionally appear irrational - not to say, cray cray - so as to force your adversary to be cautious. If this is what Putin is doing, then he is frighteningly good at it."

—Michael A. Horowitz (@michaelh992) February 21, 2022

The nature of Putin's intentions has long been one of the key questions of the Ukraine crisis.

Many western analysts believed wrongly that Putin had been bluffing when he threatened invasion by massing his forces on the Ukrainian border in order to extract security concessions from the West.

Those predictions turned out to be wrong, as last week Putin ordered a full scale invasion, tipping Europe into its gravest security crisis for decades.