Re: Animals

About those big inflatable swans which the Wall Street Journal reports are so popular in the up-scale swimming pools of New York's Hamptons--Fio wishes more power to them.  They're a touch of whimsy in an otherwise crass environment.
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Happy to report that Sonia Dog totally ignored the yappy next-door-neighbor dogs on our walk yesterday evening.  On the other hand, yesterday morning she went bonkers when we encountered a slow-moving golf cart with a prancing dog attached to each side of it.
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Fiorella's first pet was a goldfish whose major--and final--trick was floating upside down.