Wednesday, December 23, 2009

A Christmas Story

Mrrrr Friends,

My female person earns the kibble by sitting at her desk all day and staring at the Aluminum Cat. She calls it Mac. Alex and I are convinced it's really a cat since Oom spends so much time looking at it and stroking it. She only loves cats, birds, and Boo that much.

I know from using it myself that the Aluminum Cat is a special immortal portal cat for blogging to humans and my cat pals around the world.

Anyway, Oom actually does work. She helps save wild places and makes critters' and humans' lives better by protecting their land, air, and water. She works with three bunches of cool people: the people who work with her that have Aluminum Cats at their homes (they are very nice, even though some of them have dogs); neat men and ladies that fly planes for free because Oom asks them to (Oom flies a plane but I haven't been in it when it's in the air); and conservation people, like my friends at the Adirondack Council, the Audubon bird people, or the neat people in Provincetown, all of whom need smart pilots and small planes to get their work done. There's more of these folks than you'd think.

Yesterday, a bunch of these folks and Oom got together and did something wonderful. They moved these three critters to a new home in New Mexico:








That's Chevaya, Catella, and Nieta. They are endangered Mexican wolves, and they were living, as a pack, in a big private place at the National Zoo in Washington, DC. Canines are like that...they hang out together.

They needed new digs, so the cool people that take care of them (so they can make puppies who can grow up and repopulate the wilds of Mexico and the US desert Southwest), made them a perfect place in New Mexico. But they needed help getting there. So Oom and a couple of super cool pilots with a nice new plane helped out. They also brought back a lone female wolfie; she's had a tough life so far but will be living in New York and meeting some fellow Mexican wolf dudes at the Wolf Conservation Center.

Isn't that neat? New homes for wolfies just in time for Cat-Solstice, thanks to Oom and the cool people she works with (at LightHawk), the very cool pilot dude and lady, and the wonderful people who dedicate their lives to making sure there are always Mexican wolves.

Me, I'm tired after all that moving around.  Time to get some rest before the human tree holiday ahead, when I'll be hitting the road myself. More on that later...