Abstaining to abstain

YPSILANTI, MICH. ( AP) >> Three members of a Michigan city council have abstained from voting on a measure that would have prevented them from abstaining on future votes.

AnnArbor. com reports ( http:// bit. ly/ 13JeOBH ) that Ypsilanti City Council member Pete Murdock proposed a resolution Tuesday that would have required council members to only vote “yes” or “no” on each issue unless they had a financial or professional conflict.

Mayor Paul Schreiber and council members Susan Moeller and Brian Robb abstained from the vote to show their disapproval of the resolution.

The resolution failed, with Murdock and another City Council member voting “yes” while two other council members voted “no.” procedure Wednesday at a veterinary center in the Tampa Bay area community of Clearwater. Doctors said in a statement that they safely removed the 4- pound obstruction from Ty’s stomach .

he tiger, which is cared for by Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation in Seminole, was brought to veterinarians after not eating for nearly two weeks. Doctors said they detected the hairball using a scope with a camera.

Vernon Yates, whose nonprofit group regularly assists law enforcement agencies with seized animals, says he’s thankful the hairball was removed and Ty is doing fine. actually exists — though police say the 28- inch statue of the Yeti has been missing from the planting bed in front of Mary Fabian’s home since at least Monday.

Fabian tells the Beaver County Times ( http:// bit. ly/ 11hYxb3 ) she bought the statue online four years ago and named him Harry after the 1987 film, “Harry and the Hendersons,” in which a family befriends a Sasquatch.

Acting police Chief Jeff Becze says investigators haven’t found any footprints — human or Yeti — or other clues as to who might have taken the statue.