3:00 snapshot #1781: Wednesday

Franklin Park Zoo's main food concession, decorated for fall.

This is getting weird

There's famous, Twitter famous, Tumblr famous, Internet famous...

Buzzfeed famous?

3:00 snapshot #1782: Thursday

My friend Miss Lasko-Gross drew this amazing pen and ink portrait of Gigi the gorilla and donated to AAZK for us to auction off.

Pocket Saga

I was at home, Alex was visiting, we were getting ready to celebrate Jim's birthday. Alexis came home, swearing at her phone with a crazed look in her eye. It seemed that our foster puppy, getting some supportive care for a probable intestinal bug at an emergency vet hospital, had attracted some media attention. Now Alexis was being called upon to do the thing she liked least of all: talk to a large amount of people (you know, the tv watching public).

We found clean shirts and ran out the door to the vet hospital. The CBS news had come and gone already, and Fox news was there talking to a veterinarian. The vet hospital's PR guy brought us to talk to the NBC reporter.

Above you can see him holding the puppy and reading his "teaser." You won't believe where this puppy was found!

Long story short, a suspect being arrested by the police had this 2 week old puppy in his pocket. When Alexis told me the story I said, "We should name her Pocket."

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