Last Tuesday, I posed ten questions for you to consider at Sacred Ordinary. Since only a few of you responded, I've selected this whacky question to answer myself today.
Oprah’s show wants you and your current pet to appear on her show along with several famous people who will bring their beloved sloths, anteaters, armadillos and manatees. What pet would you bring and why?
I have to be honest; I have long harbored a fantasy about owning a bat-eared fox. When I go to the Desert Museum in Palm Desert, I spend a lot of time watching the cage with the bat-eared foxes.
If I had one, I would tame it and keep it in my patio garden next to my St. Francis statuary as I assume it would be soothed by all that brotherly love. But, in addition to its absolutely adorable look, did you know that they are the only member of the canid species who have given up on mammalian prey in favor of insects? With Oprah’s good eating habits, I think she would have the clout to make this animal a spokesanimal for FoodChain International. Bat eared foxes especially like termites, so maybe we wouldn’t have to tent our houses anymore if we all had a bat eared fox.
Anybody or anything seen on Oprah's show becomes an instant world phenomena. I imagine breeding farms would spring up all over the world where bat-eared foxes would be raised alongside llamas and chinchillas. Cookie has indicated to me, that though she doesn’t get along well with most dog-types, she would go along with my plan—IF she can also go on Oprah’s show to prove she is alpha dog and loathes sloths, anteaters, armadillos and manatees. If Cookie made a statement on Oprah’s show, it would throw up yet another smokescreen and get our mind off the rapidly deteriorating world situation. My bat eared fox would be named Leslieann Girl George; don’t ask me why but maybe one of your shrink friends can tell you the deeper meaning behind this name and my fantasy of owning a bat-eared fox.
If Oprah didn’t want to feature Leslieann Boy George, there’s my Tasmanian Devil Harold, a pride of flying foxes known lovingly as fruit bats, and then there’s the Hawaiian Hoary Bat that I call Henry Haveaheart.
This is Harold the Tasmanian Devil.
And here's that pride, pack, group or whatever a whole bunch of fruit bats are called.
This is a face that only a Hoary bat mother could love.
So, what animal would you bring to Oprah’s show? And which famous people do you think might own a sloth, anteater, armadillo or a manatee?
