Weird BUT true Natalie O’Neill, Wires

This pup’s in the doghouse.

A pet pooch set a Missouri family’s home on fire when it unwittingly switched on a stove burner while sniffing around for food, wild video shows.

Homeowners were away from the Kansas City pad when the dog stood on its hind legs to reach a pan of grease and knocked the nob — sparking a kitchen blaze.

Neighbors saw smoke and called firefighters, who rescued the canine culprit and another pup from the home.

A Spanish resort town is giving soccer jerseys the boot in an effort to keep drunken revelers away.

Restaurant owners in Majorca have banned folks from wearing the sporty shirts inside eateries after too many trashed tourists caused postgame trouble, according to a report.

Trash landing! NASA’s Perseverance rover this week discovered a piece of garbage on Mars — likely a chunk of thermal blanket from a crash last year.

The shiny debris may have fallen from the rover’s descent stage, a rocket-powered landing device, as it crashed on the Red Planet.

Their rescue plan was the cat’s meow.

A kitty was saved from a storm drain in Virginia thanks to a rescuer who lured it out with a recording of felines mewing.

Petersburg animal control officers first tried to climb into the manhole to help the stranded cat, but it got spooked and fled deeper.

The rescuers then played cat sounds on a cellphone, which allowed them to grab the kitty with a catch pole.

An 18th-century cockroach was discovered squished between the pages of a ledger from a French slave-trading ship.

The pancaked creepy crawler surprised an archivist in DC when he opened the book recently.

The bug may have been aboard a vessel that sailed from La Rochelle to the Guinea coast in 1743.