But Not the Hippopotamus

Dara has spent the last 28 years listening to me asking, "If we see a turtle in the road, can we stop and get it?" and continuing to entertain my fantasies of having a pygmy hippo as a pet (because they fit under your arm, don't they). So, when she saw this photo and story, she had to send it to me. In my own defense, I want to remind everyone that Keith was enamored of pigs for quite some time growing up, to the point where he was arguing that they were the smartest animal in the world. And sadly, while Dara was in Tennessee, she actually did finally see a turtle in the road. I wasn't there. When she came back down the road a while later, it was not much of a turtle anymore.