It’s been a while since we’ve checked in with the Post’s Animal Watch desk, but this week’s list in the District weekly is filled with stuff that is more comical than the normally depressing examples of animal neglect.

We perhaps shouldn’t be laughing, but we find the mixture of detailed and semi-vague information from the reports to make for good reading. Oh the twisted irony in this one on Capitol Hill:

Humane Society officers removed an emaciated German shepherd mix from a home while its owner was watching “Animal Cops,” a reality TV show about officers who investigate the welfare of animals.

And now to Cleveland Park, an area of the city with a complex relationship with felines.

In the Post’s report, there’s word of an unfortunate cat on Newark Street that didn’t have ringworm, but did have a satanic curse cast upon it. In perhaps an odd coincidence, we think the cat in question could have come from this house (pictured here) we wrote about back in March … which is on the same street and seems to be on the same numbered block as the incident listed in the Post. (FYI, the cat was reportedly saved by the police and adopted.)

We still think the most shocking item we’ve come across in Animal Watch was this one, involving a goat, a candle, barbecue sauce and a knife in the woods of Fort Totten.