Everybody check your lions. They may be counterfeit.

China zoo tries to pass dog off as lion.

I could imagine this happening in Florida, but in China? You're better than that, China.

The counterfeit only came to light when "a mother visited the zoo, in a park in the city of Louhe, to show her son the sounds different animals made." So if there hadn't been someone specifically checking animal sounds, the zoo might have gotten away with it.

After the lion fraud was discovered, people subjected the other animals in the zoo to additional scrutiny by, I don't know, maybe looking at them. They found "a white fox in a leopard's den and another dog being passed off as a wolf." I predict that, after careful veterinary examination, that "white fox" will turn out to be a spray-painted dachshund.

Deep Thought of the Day

Deep thought for today:

As you read this, somewhere in the world, someone you admire is probably on the toilet right now. It might be a celebrity. It might be a sports star. It might be a family member.

It may be Joss Whedon. Or Washington Mystics power forward Crystal Langhorne. Or one of your children.

Makes you think.

Robyn and Robyn

http://www.robynstraley.com/blog/2013/8/2/first-friday-ybr-proust-other-robyn.html

http://www.according2robyn.blogspot.com/2013/08/yeast-bread-falling-robyn-straley.html

You two are really weird.