Healthy Snacks and Add-Ins For Your Dog

1. Apples that have been cored and seeded
2. Carrots
3. Sweet potatoes
4. Canned salmon
5. Ground beef, chicken, or turkey
6. Boneless, skinless, chicken breast
7. Cottage cheese
8. Eggs
9. Beans- canned or cooked
10. Greens
11. Green beans
12. Broccoli
13. Cauliflower
14. Peas
15. Canned pumpkin
16. Millet, brown rice, buckwheat
17. Oats and oatmeal
18. Pasta
19. Blackstrap molasses
20. Non-fat yogurt
21. Garlic
22. Olive or safflower oil

Some Pet Names I Would Use

1. Janice

2. Ron Weasley

3. Newman

4. Ben Fong-Torres

5. Emmylou

6. Lisa Turtle (if it's a turtle)

7. Jose Oquendo

8. Eleanor Rigby

9. Jordan Catalanno (if it's a cat)

10. Zoila

11. Chuck Bass (if it's a fish)

12. If we got two little pets at the same time, they would obviously be named Zack and Kelly. Or Joey and Pacey? Hmmm, decisions, decisions.

13. Crystal Gayle (this is from W...she thinks it's a beautiful name)

14. Speaking of, Loretta Lynn would be a great cat name. If I liked cats.

New Births At The St. Louis Zoo

1. An East African black rhino male named Ruka, the firstborn of parents Kati Rain and Ajabu. At four days old, he weighs the same amount as I do.

2. A female Asian elephant named Kenzi, born to Rani and Raja. The STL Zoo has three generations of this elephant family living there with the grandmother being the 40 year old named Pearl, who is Raja's mama.

3. Imani, an African lion cub whose name means "faith" in Swahili. Her sister was stillborn, and so Imani had to be bottle-fed at the vet hospital because she was becoming dehydrated (just one cub doesn't provide enough lactation stimulation for the mama).

If I Had a Race Horse, I'd Name It After a Song. Here Would Be Some Good Ones

1. Miss Ohio

2. Real Real Gone

3. Tupelo Honey

4. Steppin' Out Queen

5. Lonely Soldier

6. Speed of Sound

7. Love's Old Song

8. Beauty for Ashes

9. Rebel Prince

10. Southern Anthem

11. Such Great Heights

12. My Strongest Weakness

13. Prince of Darkness

14. Sounds Like Hallelujah

15. Fleet of Hope

16. Lesson Learned

17. Acony Bell

18. Say Your Prayers

19. Chase This Light

20. Mary of Silence

21. Bang and Blame

22. Pennyroyal Tea

23. My Old Man

24. Poker Face

25. Calamity Song

26. Thunder Road

27. Penny Lane

Interesting Animal Facts

1. A snail can sleep for three years.

2. It takes a cheetah 1/2 an hour to catch its breath after a run.

3. Flamingos get their pink color from their food.

4. Koala bears fingerprints are so similar to human fingerprints, that even with a microscope, its nearly impossible to distinguish between the two.

5. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

6. Cheetahs don't drink water- they get it from their food.

7. Giraffes only sleep about a half an hour each day.

8. Crocodiles can go a month without eating.

9. A mosquito has 47 teeth.

10. Cows "emit" 400 liters of methane a day. Methane is a harmful pollutant.

11. Most wild birds have a life span of 6 months.

12. The length of an elephant is the same as the tongue of a blue whale. The entire elephant also weighs less than that whale tongue.

13. Certain Chinese and American alligators can survive the winter by freezing its head in ice, leaving their nostrils out to breathe for months on end.

14. A camel can drink 32 gallons of water at a time.

15. Cheetahs catch their prey by tripping it.

16. A rhino's horn is made of hair.

17. When opossums are playing "possum" they are not playing. They actually pass out from sheer terror.

18. A group of monkeys is a troop. A group of jellyfish is called a smack. A group of owls is a parliament.

19. We share 98.4% of our DNA with a chimp and 70% with a slug.

20. Bats always turn left when leaving a cave.

21. Shrimps hearts are in their heads.

22. Cows can have regional accents.

Animals I Love

1. Starfish

2. Peacocks

3. Giraffes

4. Octopus

5. Camels

6. Owls

7. Grasshoppers

8. Elephants

9. Rabbits

10. Prairie dogs

What My Kiddos Got To Do This Weekend

1. Go on nature walks
2. Pick turnips
3. Feed chickens
4. Throw rocks into a creek
5. Collect eggs from the hen house
6. Call for deer and turkey
7. Ride on a tractor
8. Watch frogs jump around in a pond
9. Go on a picnic
10. Eat dinner out at a trout fishing lodge
11. Feed deer
12. Gather pinecones

Unwanted Animals In My Houses

1. My childhood house turned out the occasional mouse.

2. That same house also had spiders and scorpions.

3. When we first moved to Arkansas, we returned from vacation to find a bird that had taken up residence in our house.

4. That house had a few mice, too. I did not like that house.

5. My first house in college- we lived through a month long roach infestation. I did love that house.

6. Our second house had a teeny-tiny ant problem. They were so tiny that they were almost loveable. We were able to easily get rid of them.

7. I walked in on a squirrel jumping out of my ficus tree in my first apartment in St. Louis. It was embarassingly one of the most frightening days of my life.

8. A blue-tailed lizard was in the bathroom of my parent's current house when I was home visiting this summer.

Animals That W Is Knowledgeable Of Because Of Diego

1. Blue Morpho Butterfly

2. Pygmy Marmoset

3. Sloth

4. Puma

5. Llama

6. Chincilla

7. Tapir

8. Iguana

9. Macaroni Penguin

10. Porcupine

11. Flying Squirrel

12. Spectacled Bear

Animals I Saw Today

1. Sea gulls
2. Pigeons
3. Dolphins
4. Sea Lions
5. Fish getting cleaned
6. Dogs

Animals W Likes In The Order That She Tells Me

0. Elephant (had to add a zero here, because she amended her list, and I didn't want to redo the numbers)

1. Hippo
2. Lion
3. Dinosaur
4. Pygmy Marmoset
5. Rhea
6. Dog
7. Puma
8. Sun Bear
9. Sea Turtle
10. Baby Duck
11. Ava Cat

Animals I Like

1. Dogs
2. Starfish
3. Butterflies
4. All kinds of fish
5. Octopus
6. Cows
7. Bunnies
8. Prairie Dogs
9. Llamas
10. Elephants
11. Owls

Animals That We Get To See On Our Daily Walks

1. The manatee hanging in the Ethel Hedgeman school

2. The praying mantis on top of the City Museum

3. Dogs out on walks

4. The house cat at Left Bank Books

5. The monkeys on the Monkey building

6. Birds flying in the sky

Favorite Things At The Zoo

1. The prairie dogs
2. The guinea pigs (I don't like them, but W LOVES petting them)
3. The sea lion show
4. Giraffes
5. Big cat country
6. Elephants
7. The hippo tanks
8. Penguin and puffin building

Pets We've Had

1. Pete, our childhood dog
2. Amory, our sweet gray cat
3. Dutchess the Cocker Spaniel
4. Boots, a cute little pup I think my dad drowned or shot
5. Poody Poo, my dad's cat
6. Hercules and Thor, my goldfish that Mom "accidentally" bleached
7. Joe Perry, Tracy's bird that had seizures
8. David Gray Schwimmer, my beta fish
9. And the greatest, Puddy, the Coton de Tulear