Henry the Colorado Dog, and his furry camping companion: Baloo the Kitten.
Pets and celebrities are what people really care about
By Rob Carrigan, robcarrigan1@gmail.com
An earlier post recently, and a story I heard last night, got me thinking (which is dangerous enough) but I have arrived at the conclusion that what people really care about on various forms of social media is: Pets and celebrities.
"Not all who wander are lost, especially if they have a friend roaming with them," says Kelli Bender of "People."
"After spending some time traveling solo, Henry the Colorado Dog now has a furry camping companion: Baloo the Kitten. Both of these adventurous angels belong to Cynthia Bennett, a Colorado nature lover who also adores documenting her pets’ astounding wanderings on Instagram."
And Instagrammers love them, too: Henry and Baloo have more than 2.2 million followers, as of a recent check.
With that in mind, my next post combines those two elements, with my own tastes and agenda:
• George Washington (perhaps the country’s first celebrity) had American Staghounds named Sweet Lips, Scentwell and Vulcan. But the father of the country loved his brew art and his favorite animals were his black and tan coonhounds named Drunkard, Taster, Tipler and Tipsy.
• President Andrew Jackson reportedly had a parrot named Pol that cussed in both Spanish and English, at all the improper times. Several reports suggest that the bird attended “Old Hickory’s” funeral but was then asked to leave because of its foul mouth and inappropriate outbursts.
• Ernest Hemingway was fond of six-toed cats and upon his death in 1961, his former home in Key West, Florida, became a museum and a home for his cats and it currently houses approximately fifty-plus descendants of the originals. About half of them have six toes.
• And there is a lot of other craziness out there, as you might expect. For example: Tori Spellings’ fluffy pet chicken Coco Chanel. Nickolas Cage’s king cobra Sheba, Steven Tyler goes fishing with his raccoon. Vanilla Ice has a kangaroo. Salvador Dali owned an ocelot named Babou. Audrey Hepburn had a deer she called Pippin. Lord Byron, the famous poet, was disappointed that he couldn’t take his dog with him to Cambridge because of their rules, but fortunately discovered a loophole that allowed him to bring a bear, which lived in the dorms with him and took walks around campus.
• George Washington (perhaps the country’s first celebrity) had American Staghounds named Sweet Lips, Scentwell and Vulcan. But the father of the country loved his brew art and his favorite animals were his black and tan coonhounds named Drunkard, Taster, Tipler and Tipsy.
• President Andrew Jackson reportedly had a parrot named Pol that cussed in both Spanish and English, at all the improper times. Several reports suggest that the bird attended “Old Hickory’s” funeral but was then asked to leave because of its foul mouth and inappropriate outbursts.
• Ernest Hemingway was fond of six-toed cats and upon his death in 1961, his former home in Key West, Florida, became a museum and a home for his cats and it currently houses approximately fifty-plus descendants of the originals. About half of them have six toes.
• And there is a lot of other craziness out there, as you might expect. For example: Tori Spellings’ fluffy pet chicken Coco Chanel. Nickolas Cage’s king cobra Sheba, Steven Tyler goes fishing with his raccoon. Vanilla Ice has a kangaroo. Salvador Dali owned an ocelot named Babou. Audrey Hepburn had a deer she called Pippin. Lord Byron, the famous poet, was disappointed that he couldn’t take his dog with him to Cambridge because of their rules, but fortunately discovered a loophole that allowed him to bring a bear, which lived in the dorms with him and took walks around campus.
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