Sunday, January 25, 2009

Menagerie of Small Animals and a Peeing Hedgehog

I dreamed last night that I had a menagerie of small wild animals living in my back yard. When I say small, I mean as in Small Horses (which incidentally are one of the funniest of all creatures as far as I'm concerned), not baby animals but smaller versions of full-size ones.

There were small elephants, small white siberian tigers, small horses actually, small gazelles, small great danes. And though several of them are naturally predator/prey to each other, they weren't mean and mostly rolled around playfully in a very cute way. I would feed them by tossed balls of raw meat - like meatballs - in their general direction. They all ate the meat even the vegetarian elephants and gazelles.

I kept getting distracted from my feeding by my old pet hedgehog Sally Pineapple who had broken free in my house and was peeing giant puddles everywhere. I couldn't catch her because whenever I would get close she would roll up into a spiky ball making it impossible to pick her up. And then when I'd go get an oven glove she'd run off and pee a huge puddle again and then roll into a ball so I couldn't catch her. Rinse. Repeat.

4 comments:

Sara Ashes said...

god it is SO FUNNY that I just typed that I dreamed about a "small great dane". hahahaha!

Reem Tara said...

Menagerie, eh? I HATE great danes, even tiny ones. Fantastic link to the small horses!

Valerie said...

i love animals!!! i want that dream!!

SophisticatedBrew said...

the thought of a cute little hedgehog leaving giant puddles of urine is disgusting yet hilarious.