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I got a great shot of the leopard too, standing on its hind legs, looking at something tasty and twitching its tail, just like a housecat seeing a bird or squirrel through a window!

I made leopard pick #1 my new backround. Never have I wanted to scritch an animal behind the ears so much that would undoubtedly maime me so fast you would need slow-mo to see it. I am even a little nervous when a large dog comes up to me so I can’t explain it. Darwins rules not in effect in my brain.

[Well, cool, glad you like it! I actually put a fair bit of work into that one, first actually *capturing* Miz Sleepy Leopard with her eyes open, and without using the flash; later I toned down all the weird stray reflections from the glass of the leopard pen... um yeah. It's all about the leopard, really. But that's why the cleanup was worth the effort. - Ed.]

Eastie – big cats do behave very much like house cats, except they’re bigger so they do more damage when they bite, claw, barf on the windowsills and scratch the furniture.

I was just there last weekend!! Watching one of the bears fish was the highlight of my day — he didn’t quite know how to fish, so he would tummy float, looking for his prey, take a deep breath, and then plunge his BACK FEET down toward the bottom of the pool, as if he were trying to spear the fish with his claws! He did this four HOURS on end (never caught anything though, poor guy) — probably the cutest thing I’ve EVER seen at the zoo.

Splort
Coffee out my nose.
“They are tender and delicious.”
Funniest captioning evah?

And it’s being worn by what else– a Michigan Wolverine!

[ahem: MINNESOTA - Ed.]

Dexter — nothing bought, sold, or processed, please.

Hon Glad — American football, I’m thinking. Heh.
The blue top *is* rather fetching though.

@Hon Glad– well, right on the nose for communities in MY area. But in other communities, it’s a hand-holding huddle and just something like “Oh Lord we beseech thee to let us beat the other guys, who are at this moment all holding hands and asking you the same dang thing through Christ our Lord Amen.”

@Theresa,Let me guess at the football coach theory.”For God’s sake get the Goddam ball and kick the Goddam ball over the Goddam goal for God’s sake, you Goddam, Mother f***ing moron”.”Um,if you would be so kind, by the way, love that blue top, it’s so you!”

@Theresa, awesome

Love the pictures of the leopard, remind me of Edward Gorey’s drawing in The Gashlycrumb Tinies “N is for Neville who died of ennui.”