Saturday, July 19, 2008
Friday, July 18, 2008
A duck in the city
Invariably, one of my treats each day is to read Cute Overload. It really is an overload of cuteness each day.
Read co's story, Duck Darwin Awards, a suspenseful tale of a confused mother duck in Downtown Spokane who laid ten eggs in a nest in the corner of a planter that is perched over 10 feet in the air.
As the ten ducklings hatched, the mother duck needed to get her brood to leap from a ten foot high ledge and negotiate 2 full blocks to walk across traffic, crosswalks, curbs, and pedestrians to get to the closest open water, the Spokane River.
Luckily, the heroic office staff of the Sterling Bank gave mama duck assistance all through the process.
Nice work, ladies and gentlemen. Give yourselves a hand. Or better yet, go out for several drinks after work today. You earned it.
Read co's story, Duck Darwin Awards, a suspenseful tale of a confused mother duck in Downtown Spokane who laid ten eggs in a nest in the corner of a planter that is perched over 10 feet in the air.
As the ten ducklings hatched, the mother duck needed to get her brood to leap from a ten foot high ledge and negotiate 2 full blocks to walk across traffic, crosswalks, curbs, and pedestrians to get to the closest open water, the Spokane River.
Luckily, the heroic office staff of the Sterling Bank gave mama duck assistance all through the process.Nice work, ladies and gentlemen. Give yourselves a hand. Or better yet, go out for several drinks after work today. You earned it.
Doggie wisdom
I LOVE this blog!On Mackenzie Speaks, we get snippets of wisdom from the viewpoint of a very insightful dog.
Some of my favorite Mackenzie-isms:
"Chihuahua’s are adorable, except for the fact that they’re tiny and rat like."
"If I were invisible, would my poop also be invisible?"
"Being a dog is great. We can walk around carrying a tennis ball in our mouth and it’s no big deal. Humans, on the other paw, could never pull that off."
"If something called a ‘jalapeño’ ever falls on the kitchen floor, do not eat it. You must trust me on this."
Licked Toys
LickedToys is the first dog toy graveyard. You send in pictures of your pets' destroyed toys and they'll post them so that your toys may rest in pieces.
Time for new toys?We suggest i-pets.com - they have excellent prices on canvas dog toys, plush dog toys, wooly dog toys, rope toys, floating toys, vinyl dog toys and heavy duty vinyl dog toys.
(via corsinet)
Lenore and Brutus, an unusual love story
John Katz has lived for some years with sheep, cows, steers, goats, barn cats, chickens—and dogs—on a farm in upstate New York, Bedlam Farm, but he had never encountered a situation where animals of different species have fallen in love, or even had much of a friendship.In an article for Slate Magazine, "My Dog Has a Crush on My Ram," he writes about Lenore, a highly affectionate black lab, who is is utterly smitten with Brutus, a neutered ram.
Each day, the pair seems more companionable. Lenore looks for Brutus, and when she finds him, she sometimes challenges him to romp, occasionally rolling over and flirtatiously showing her belly. She isn't above giving his nose or ear a lick. Some days, they just graze side by side, Lenore also chomping down the grass.
The two of them are always together. She cleans his ear, he noses her or butts her gently. It's something to see.(via: The Roanoke Times: The Happy Wag)
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