Bad Cat

I promise not to go overboard posting pet photos in my blog. But has anyone looked at those Bad Cat books? Funny stuff. This photo is old, but I just had to post it because I think it would be a good one to send to the Bad Cat people. The cool thing is that I took this on my old dinosaur digital camera that took about two minutes to snap a photo. While the camera was taking its time getting ready for the photo, Baxter decided he was tired of the whole shebang and I caught his yawn on camera.

Up Close and Personal

So I am a big fan of the Woodland Park Zoo as you can probably tell already. A few months ago, my mom and I got to go on the Zoo's "Eye to Eye" tour, where we went behind the scenes to feed the hippos and giraffes. I love giraffes, and hippos are pretty interesting animals. We learned that they are responsible for the most animal-related deaths in Africa because they are extremely territorial. Also, their skin contains a natural antibiotic so when they get in fights with one another, the gashes in their skin heal in just a couple days.

Here are two of my favorite giraffe photos we took that day.Chomp, chomp, chomp.

House/Jungle Cat

I visited the Woodland Park Zoo on Thursday, July 3rd. I was lucky enough to get some very good views of the big cats, particularly the jaguar and lions. The big cats have always been some of my favorite animals, starting with cheetahs in kindergarten. My kindergarten teacher loved cheetahs, so we had "cheetah days" where we learned about the fastest land animal in the world (they can run 71 mph) and a face painter came and painted all our faces to look like cheetahs - tear lines and all.

Anyway, as I stood watching the jaguar sleeping just a few feet from me, I couldn't help but think of the similarity between our friendly house cats (Baxter and Tinker, below) and big cats of the wild.Life is hard for a cat.