Sunday Night Saccharin August 6, 2007 Jill I leave for Hamburg a week from today. To prepare, I’ve been watching this video on repeat, courtesy of my sister: The cute is overwhelming.
I am very sorry to disappoint you but he’s all grown up by now. So big, in fact, they had to put him on a diet. No more cute. More space in the Berliner Zoo, though, now that everyone has already seen him.
Yeah, I saw him back in mid-May (agh! the crowds!) and he was already the size of a rottweiler. Still cute, though, just way more deadly.
I’m sure everyone remembers how it came to be that Knut hit the headlines: reports that an animal activist had called for him to be put down. I ask anyone who recalls the incident to read through the transcript at this link: http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s1887892.htm from the excellent Australian news analysis programme, Mediawatch, and see what really happened. And then go away with a newly refreshed healthy scepticism about ANYTHING they tell us in the mass media.
I’m crying. That was so cute. I can’t stand it. Thank you, I was having a crummy day. I love everyone now!