Wordless Wednesday

This photo really needs no words. Even the hills or mountains in the background look small compared to this big man in his S.S. Fat Guy boat.

Bad news, bear.

Knut, the adorable polar-bear cub who has become a Berlin zoo’s most famous resident, is being put on a diet - and that means no more croissants.

“If Knut would live outdoors, his extra weight wouldn’t be so bad,” said a zoo vet. “He would simply build up his fat reserves for the winter.”

But in captivity, Knut won’t need the blubber to stay warm in winter, so he is stuck with his special porridge of milk, meat, cod-liver oil and vitamins.

“Extras like croissants will need to be dropped,” the vet said.

If bears on bad diets isn’t enough for you check out this post that I came across that lists 15 very unfortunate ad placements. Some are quite funny.

The fat cat is finally home. The 20 pound stray got stuck in a pet door when he attempted to sneak into a home a steal a dogs food.

Hercules, as the chubby cat is named, went missing when his owner, Geoff Ernest was in Seattle for lung transplant surgery and subsequent recovery 6 months ago.

Imagine being Jadwiga Drozdek who upon arriving at her suburban Portland home one day last week found the chubby cat stuck in her dog door? She managed to free the cat and offered him a plate of food.

She must have then taken the cat to the Humane Society, because while Hercules was there he was diagnosed with Feline Immunodeficiency Virus which is similar to human HIV. Cats with this disease should be kept indoors to help keep it from spreading to other cats. They can also live for years and continue to make good pets.

Hercules, meanwhile, has had his 15 minutes of fame, piling up stacks of hits on YouTube and other Web sites.

David Scholnick of Pacific University has a profound interest in how shrimp act when they get an infection. He gauges how they act by by building a tiny treadmill in order to run crustaceans through their paces to measure blood lactate levels.

I have this picture in my head of several shrimp lined up on treadmills with little towels behind their necks. LOL

Scholnick told livescience.com last October “As far as I know, this is the first time that shrimp have been exercised on a treadmill.” To increase the shrimps’ stress, Scholnick designed tiny backpacks out of duct tape but still found that healthy shrimp could go for about an hour without fatigue.

OMG I wish I had a photo of that. Can someone make me a cartoon of shrimp on a treadmill with little backpacks on their backs?