Leap, Lavender, leap.

A ram on a farm in Britain has leaped himself out of a trip to the slaughterhouse after his human friend turned him into a river-jumping-trick-sheep, according to Metro.

Isobel Brown befriended Lavender the ram and taught him, one step at a time, how to hop over fences and rivers, according to a video in which the ram shows off his talents.

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It's almost majestic to watch him sail through the air.

Brown said her grandfather told her she could keep Lavender, even though he was destined for slaughter. Otherwise, maybe he would have used his new talent to leap away from the farm anyway.

Brown told Metro she trains the ram as much as possible, demonstrating the jumps and encouraging him with treats, such as croissants. What ram doesn't enjoy a croissant now and then?

Lavender's highest jump so far was about one metre, Brown says in the video.

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I once declared a pair of

Man resigns via cake (Image courtesy Twitter)A moody boss wasn't the icing on the cake that led an officer of the Border Force from Sawston, Cambridgeshire to quit his job.

It was icing. On cakes. Much like the icing with which Chris Holmes spelled out his resignation letter on a cake this week, to the delight of social media users who shared a picture of the dessert widely.

“@obsfood: Man resigns from job through medium of cake bit.ly/1709gXB” Elegantly done all round. #PRGoldStars

— Heironymous Bosch (@ormerodthoughts) April 16, 2013

Should the day come, it's how I plan to go.“@obsfood: Man resigns from job through medium of cake bit.ly/1709gXB” — Kate Emery (@kirovkate) April 16, 2013

A teaspoon of sugar with some bitter news. In fact, there was plenty more than a teaspoon of sugar in this cake, which measured 10 by 12 inches and contained about 18 eggs, according to the Guardian.

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The message on the cake, addressed to the management, said Holmes was

A group of Canadian skiers have tried to break a world record with a simultaneous somersault completed while holding hands on the slopes.

A total of 30 skiers gathered at Mont St. Sauveur, north of Montreal, where they practiced their back flips and prepared to link up for one, big trick they hoped would glide them into the record book, according to Sky News.

On the first attempt, the skiers told Sky News an uneven jump caused the line to break. But on the second jump, the skiers flipped together, creating a wave effect with their airborne bodies, and landing with hands still connected.

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Then, naturally, they celebrated with poutine.

You can see the skiers from an angle below the jump in the following video.

Mikael Kingsbury, a world cup winner in Moguls skiing, organized the event and Tweeted about it on Sunday.

We bet the world record !! 30 back flip hand in hand! Thanks to Mont St-Sauveur!

— Mikael Kingsbury

I g..I go..I got a kitty!

All this big dog wants is a kitten and he's not ashamed to tell you all about it.

With the help of Canadian voice actor Andrew Grantham and what was certainly some teasing with an enticing toy or a treat off camera, Clyde the dog showed the world just how much he really loves kittens in a video uploaded over the weekend.

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The video already has more than 1.3 million views, with comments calling the conversation between an owner and his ecstatic dog adorable.

The owner teases the dog by saying he looked at the snakes, mice and parrots among a whole list of other animals that are not kittens. He can't contain his excitement at the mention of a cat.

The video was created as promotion for the campaign Pets Add Life, intended to promote responsible pet ownership.

Andrew Grantham quit his job to make videos like this one full-time, according to the Globe and Mail, and he has raised thousands of dollars

It has giant sinkholes, bizarre crimes and now Florida can add another item to its list of claims for the title of the weirdest state — an infestation of giant snails that can grow to the size of rats.

Reuters reported that authorities have caught more than 117,000 of the huge African snails, an invasive species that can chew through plaster, in the Miami area since September of 2011.

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Residents are in for a slimy mess. More snails will emerge as spring unfolds, a spokesperson from the U.S. Department of Agriculture told the news agency. If enough of the creatures thrive, they could chew through a whole range of plant life, leave their goo behind on walls and become a crunching hazard for pedestrians on sidewalks. Yuck.

Florida-dwellers ought to keep an eye on their ceilings, too, because these snails consider stucco a tasty snack, according to Reuters.

"Scientists consider the giant African snail, Lissachatina fulica, to

An SPCA field officer named Jessica Watson told the newspaper that customers would order an extra patty for the cat, or toss him a chicken nugget as they drove past.Anyone needing more evidence that McDonald's food can turn you into a junk-food-junky, behold Frankie the Kiwi cat, who lived off McNuggets and fries for more than a year before he was rescued and put through a kitty version of food rehab, according to the Waikato Times.

The cat's owners had abandoned him when he was a kitten, according to the story, so he wandered into a McDonald's parking lot in the suburb of Frankton, where he became a local celebrity and earned the nickname Frankie.

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An SPCA field officer named Jessica Watson told the newspaper that customers would order an extra patty for the cat, or toss him a chicken nugget as they drove past.

However, Frankie's McDiet was faring badly for his feline metabolism. The SPCA officer said she scooped him up one day, worried that he looked swollen and matted.

Bad as it was for him, the fast-food addict kitty didn't want to give up his greasy diet, according to the story. His foster mother told

Thanks to Edgar Allan Poe, that dark prince of American letters, high school students across the country have visualized what it would be like to have someone bury you alive behind a wall, brick by brick, like the unfortunate sod in The Cask of Amontillado.

Poe’s story of calculated revenge, an English class staple, has made drywall the prime suspects in many a crime caper since its 1846 publication.

Now, walls can add property theft to their long list of crimes against humanity.

As the Sun reports, Richard Lane lost his brown leather wallet back in 1978 after a squash game at a local community centre.

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The British man suspected that his wallet, which contained around £15 ($23CAD), his driver’s licence, gym and union membership cards and a payment plan for a television set, had been stolen.

He would be right. He just had no idea that the culprit was an inanimate object used to support roofs and ceilings: the perfect

From a moose walking into a B.C. grocery store to a man climbing three storeys on the outside of a burning building to save girl, we've seen some amazing videos this week. Here are some of our favourites:

1. Catching two fish at once

A man was out in a boat in Lake Austin in Texas when he saw one large-mouth bass trying to eat another similarly sized large-mouth bass whole. The one fish only had the other fish's head in its mouth. Both fish seem to still be alive and are trying to swim off, but aren't having much luck. The man just picks them both up with his hand and puts them in the boat.

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2. Moose wanders through B.C. grocery store

Grocery shopping is usually uneventful, but not for the folks at a Safeway in Smithers, B.C. this past Wednesday. A moose strolled into the store apparently just hoping to smell the roses after following customers in through the electronic doors. The moose was