Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Inside CL Our favorite animals of 2011, baby and otherwise
Posted by Gwynedd Stuart @gwynnstu on Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 3:18 PM
News happened this year in Atlanta. Lots of it (and, don't worry, those posts are coming). But amid the scandals, robberies, state-sanctioned killings and really, really ugly license plates that were forever bombarding our collective digital consciousness, every now and then there were small, furry reminders that things aren't exclusively awful (although, one of the items on this list just serves to reinforce that things are completely awful, all the time — still furry, though).
Here are our picks for the best animalés of 2011 ...
Norman the Scooter Dog
Norman, the scooter-riding genius dog from Canton, who rolled over and into our hearts — and then all the way to Letterman! — may or may not actually be a hirsute 8-year-old with terrible breath. If that ends up being the case, I'm available to homeschool him from now until forever, Mr. and Mrs. Norman's parents.
Gwynedd Lily the Giraffe
Besides being so ridiculous looking it became a source of anger and frustration for basically everyone in Atlanta (or just me, maybe), the baby giraffe born at Zoo Atlanta in July also became a source of controversy when the right to name her was sold on Groupon to some rando named Tami Honeycutt who refused to name the giraffe Gwynedd, even though I asked very, very nicely. In the end, the living, breathing sock puppet was named Lily and finally began to grow into her idiot loose neckskin.
Oscar the LSD Dog (RIP)
We all had a laugh when a couple of hicks were discovered running naked through the streets of Snellville, fucked up on acid and looking for their dog Oscar, who was also supposedly fucked up on acid. Then things just kept getting less and less funny. First, it turned out Oscar has been hit by a car and would have to be put to sleep as result of his injuries. Then it turned out that Oscar hadn't even gotten to spend his final hours hallucinating that he was chasing Grateful Dead bears in a psychedelic world made of tie-dyed moonbeams — necropsy results revealed that Oscar had not ingested any LSD.
But Oscar didn't die in vain: If nothing else, his untimely passing made us think ... mostly about which drugs are definitely not OK to give to our pets and which might be kind of OK.
All Things small, orange, and Sumatran at Zoo Atlanta
First there was Rembulan Wajah — Remy, for short — the disc-eyed Sumatran orangutan who came here from a Texas zoo to be foster parented. Then, in July, a tiger named Chelsea (what a lady name!) gave birth to two Sumatran tiger cubs — the first born at Zoo Atlanta since 2000. All three of these creatures are exponentially cuter than the Sumatran rat monkey.
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