if there is a choice between less to do and more money, chose the later

D. can home with dog today! horray, I am only two parakeets short of a menangerie!

PS I killed Cricket, the puffer fish, when I tried to de-salinate her water. Oh well, I got ten tetras and one hundred snails to replace her. And since, when operating a full-time menangerie, it is numbers over quality that count, I am pleased.

Well that's it from the zoo, more old news later.