People like quirky animal stories and we had two in the newspaper today. One was about a dairy farming family who placed a death notice in the paper for their 23-year-old Holstein cow.
This wasn’t any run-of-the-mill bovine; the cow was a star of screen and stage.
“She was a rapping Red Nose cow for a SIDS commercial and also featured on stage in an opera at the Adelaide Festival Centre.”
The other story was about an influx of swamp wallabies.
Previously thought to be a threatened species, wallaby numbers have risen to the point they have now expanded their territory into urban areas.
One was reportedly found in a church and another in a car yard. They apparently like to eat rose petals.
I saw one on Sunday morning while walking Sooty near the tennis courts.
Animal stories resonate around the world. A colleague brought back some papers from British Columbia and Alaska after an Arctic cruise.
Two out of the four papers I saw had bear stories on the front page. In the Canadian paper a black bear had been rummaging around in people’s back yards while in Anchorage they showed a polar bear on a frozen football field.
