Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, I receive a request from a Missy Laurel to check on a river otter from PA who made an untimely demise from earth. So I have been checking through the notices of greetings as there are others who greet wild ones but I am the only one who greets the wild ones and arranges to have my human post them for the audiences to see. Sure enough there was a poor little river otter from PA who came through the other day with a hole through his neck. When he was trying to cross the bridge, he toppled over and three meercats and 1 otter and a domestic ferret ran to help him. He told me his whole sad story. Poor little guy. Here he was being introduced to a new place so they could build up the groups and some nimrod human shot him right through the neck. Ouch! However Beverly Otter made the observation of making a ribbon go through the two holes and tie and beautiful bowtie as symbolic of his courage and he looked like quite the guy. He still had big tears in his eyes and he was scared. I told him I was MollyBlackfootie and occasionally I greet the wild kids. So I told him about the wings--very special wings for swimming musteys. Off we went to Kit and Kaboodle and there they were water otter wings with big floaties on them and water resistant. Auntie Mary Ferret and her group do such wonderful work and its always playtime there. Pink and purple blue and black streaks went through his silver wings with a beautiful gold halo slightly tilted giving him quite a rakish look. I told him these are special wings so he can float. And off we ran to the water playground and I discarded my wings and told him to leave his on and wow, he could float--needless to say he was in seventh heaven, however I had to have a life jacket on as I am just kit sized and not quite swimmer size. We had a great time and were joined by the minks and a few meercats. I asked R Otter if he would like to be with his friends who lived over in the river reeds--and he said well sure--are there others here. Well I told him-unfortunately there are way too many. So we trots over there and there was a big sign saying Welcome River Otter!!!! He was so surprised! Word travels fast here. All the drinks, ice cold pepsi, iced sweet tea, and squirt cheese on crackers and a fish fry which looked really great to me. And a band yet. We were very impressed. They invited me to say, but I told them that my parents had a strict curfew, but then I saw my parents, Jimmy and Mary Blackfootie there, and they told me to stay until they left. Okay Party Time. We danced the night away. Blackfoots, minks, stoats, ferrets otters and misc other musteys were there. And I could see R Otters room all decorated up with a fat big hammy just dangling above the water. Bet that would be fun. Great music, great food and great company. As to the alleged humans who did this, Wonder how they would feel being torn away from home and shot in the neck. It is so very sad. But that is the way of humans. The Boss was very upset and says he has plans for the person who did this. Oh-oh, I sure would not like to be this person. Well Just wanted to let you know how the day went and to answer questions about the wild ones Love, kisses, and hugs MollyBlackfootie [Posted in FML issue 5330]