Fun with Politics (79)

On the Yahoo home page: Patrick “deep Dish” Bertoletti wins the oyster eating championship in New Orleans, by downing 35 dozen oysters on the half shell without vomiting. Elsewhere on the page, one can read the headline: “Is there help for the food crisis in Haiti and Egypt?”

 

Is there help for any of us?

 

You can always tell when most of the world’s news is dire; when we’ve had it with wars, protests, and economic malaise, we want to read about puppies playing the stock market, and hamsters who can ride bicycles.  However, not all animal news this week was of the cuddly kind. Take Michelle Diller, for example. This nice old lady is a pet lover of the purest kind; until recently she owned four snakes, several mice, and a cat. There was only one problem: Mrs. Diller had to feed live rats to her snakes, and just couldn’t do it. She had come to think of them as ‘friends’.  The grateful rats paid her back by breeding like mad; before long, the whole house was covered in rat feces. The snakes, meanwhile, went without, which must have been frustrating, since dinner was running the show. The cat, on the other hand, looked anything but malnourished. I wonder if some of those rats didn’t serve as a hearty alternative to Fancy Feast.