Tama

(also on Colbert tonight)

As the economic might of Japan faces up to the global banking crisis, a single cat has boosted the finances of a small Japanese city by millions of dollars, according to a study.

Tortoiseshell Tama is the "stationmaster" of the unmanned Kishi train station where she was born and raised on the provincial Kishigawa Line.

The real story, though, is what comes up in the related articles column of the BBC page:

one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen*, fourteen*,

*only 2 results were about dogs that weren't really depressing looking. So I put in the positive ones.