Como se dice, “Let me call the US Embassy…”

Costa Rica!!! I wonder what kind of animals live there????

Ed informs me that the acceptable response to being told one is going on vacation to foreign lands is to start planning the packing.  I don’t disagree, as you who read this blog know, but another thing you need to worry about are animals.  No, not your pets and who is going to watch them while you are gone but the “potential” pets that might be available to you where you are going.  Pets you might not find where you live.

Amylynn is in total agreement with me on this.  She might not know how to pack but she knows animals.

Ferdinand

My last trip was to France which is way too civilized to contain new pets.  But Costa Rica – that’s a whole other ball of fur!  Costa Rica, my friends, is far less regulated than France and thus a gold mine of possible pets.

According to Wikipedia, Costa Rica has 500,000 species.  Unfortunately – or fortunately if you are Ed – 300,000 of them are insects.  That only leaves 200,000 to review for souvenirs.

I jumped right to mammals and found monkeys, sloths, bats, anteaters, and cats.  CATS!  SOLD!  There are Ocelots, Pumas, Jaguarondi, Margays, and Little Spotted Cats.  I swear to all the gods I did not make that last one up.  Picture me and Amylynn doing the happy

Felicia

dance around the Bank of No Forks office.

Wiki says: The Little Spotted Cat is the smallest wild cat and does not grow bigger than a house cat. It’s like they’re begging me to take two home on the plane.

“What indigenous Little Spotted Cats?  This is Felicia and Ferdinand all the way from Tucson. We’re just heading back.”

I can’t remember the last time I looked so forward to a vacation.

***Amylynn here – I was really grumpy that Ava was going on another spectacular vacation without me, but the development of this Little Spotted Cat thing has improved my outlook greatly. Jojo Kitty is just going to love his new little sister.