Because I still miss our first cockatiel, "Loud," it's become a habit to read the Lost & Found column in the local paper even though he's been gone for more than two years. Hope dies hard with me apparently...
Most of last week, this ran "Found: young chicken, vicinity of X & Y Streets, Redondo Beach." Excuse me? This is an urban area; most of us do not have front yards; we have concrete driveways. Any backyard that we might have is minuscule in size. Where the hell did a "young chicken" come from?
Today's paper had a photo of a sea lion pup, curled winsomely on a wooden patio chair. The Hermosa Beach family who was inadvertently hosting the sea lion was quite surprised to discover it there. Apparently it had climbed up the beach, then across a road, along an alley to a latticed gate that it opened and thence to the patio and a seat.
In April, a sea lion climbed four flights of stairs to relax on the sun deck of a Newport Beach condo! To date, 300 sea lions have been found far from their habitat; 100 more than for the same period last year. They are gently collected by a rescue team - visit marspecialists.org.
In today's LA Times: a photo of a 200 lb. black bear some 25 ft. up a tree in an Oxnard cemetery. The bear was sedated and put in a sling by the fire department and gotten down on the ground to be released at an undisclosed spot to avoid people rushing to take a picture of it and getting bitten for their trouble. Marc Kenyon, a biologist who runs the California bear program said, "Bears are 100 per cent garbage-eating machines and can roam in one direction as far as 100 to 150 miles." Monrovia (landlocked) police logged 464 bear sighting calls in 2009.
HAVE A FESTIVE CINCO DE MAYO BUT DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE AND DON'T RIDE WITH ANYONE WHO WAS DRINKING.
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