My sister, Kat, works at the Seattle zoo...she writes...

"Pete the 38 year old silverback gorilla had oral surgery today (sunday). he had busted one of his canine teeth and a whole crew of human maxo-facial oral surgeons, anethesiologists, radiologist came in on their own time to remove the tooth, do cardiology exam, etc etc. plus of course the animal health crew. "    read more »

Okay, so my neighbor cut down his palm tree. It had some sort of disease, which by the way, if my palms get it, I will kill him because that's why I moved to this crazy neighborhood!!!    read more »

My Basset Hound, Fred, loves to see people coming his way that are wearing black pants. I really think he knows they are black. I think he sees only black. Maybe even smell black. When he sees black pants, he gets closer and closer to his prey until they bend down. "Oh, what a cute dog." Cute dog. He is 80 pounds. A bit overweight for his size, but fat and happy as I say. Anyway. Bending ever so close, he gets 'em!    read more »