A Moment of Silence

We'd like to take this moment to note the passing of Paul the Psychic Octopus, who was quite successful in picking the winners in the previous World Cup. We will miss you, our many-armed friend, even if you did doom our beloved Netherlands.

Big Love

Look! It's my ma ape. Oh I'm only kidding. It's Jessica the Hippo. But she has much in common with my ma ape.



Both of them drink 20 liters of coffee per day.


Both of them love puppies.

And if she could choose anyone to narrate her life, it would be John Waters.

It's Still Medicinal

My GranNE sent me this story "Stoned Wallabies Make Crop Circles."

Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around "as high as a kite", a government official has said.

Lara Giddings, the attorney general for the island state of Tasmania, said the kangaroo-like marsupials were getting into poppy fields grown for medicine.

It is merely a coincidence that one of my nicknames is "Wallabee."

And any poppy consumption was for medicinal purposes and/or poppy seed muffins, this photo of me with crazyeyes notwithstanding.

We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled SPCA Saturday

There will be no SPCA Saturday this week. My ma ape was very busy doing very un-fun things. She wishes she was doing this:

Have a Nice Fall!

My real life friend Narra sent me this article about how pets--mostly dogs-- cause 86,000 injuries annually by accidentally tripping their owners.

Yes, accidental.

Keep telling yourselves that.

Are you being served?

The NYT has a good story about service animals in this week's Sunday magazine. It's partially about the difficulty presented by non-dog service animals and the use of service animals for non-task oriented duties (like for those with mental rather than physical illness). We heard the journalist who wrote the story on the NPR this weekend (we sound like latte-sipping liberals, eh? SOY latte) and she was talking about Panda, the service horse shown above. He's awesome and does some really amazing things, like his owner can hear changes in terrain from the hooves. And he's housebroken! I would like to trade Oscar for him but the ma ape says that if there is controversy over what naked apes can use service animals it is unlikely that I can have a service pet, especially since I just want to ride him around and be taller than the other dogs and my ma ape says that being vertically challenged does not qualify one for a service animal or else she could have one.

It's a really interesting story and it is pretty remarkable what the animals do for you apes, especially the story of the man with bipolar disorder who has a parrot who helps him regulate his mood.