Folks,

 

This past Saturday while in Bisbee, Arizona we came across an interesting anomaly.    There is a guy there named Greg Pike who recently moved to Arizona from Colorado and now walks his dog around the old mining town on a regular basis.   This in itself is not necessarily of great interest except for the fact that his dog Booger, who is on a leash, has a cat named Kitty who rides and rests on Booger's back without a leash.   To top that off there are three mice (nameless) who sit on the cat unrestrained and sometimes wander off the cat onto the dog below the cat.

Wile walking down the street this "animal group" stays in tact without trying to jump ship or show any disharmony.  In my opinion that is a tough act to top in the world of getting along with others when naturally programmed to be predators.  In itself it is surely a lesson for the most advanced of the animal world, the homo sapien.

 

 

Pete & Faye

From Sunnyzona

(Tempt 85 F or 30 C)

 

 

 

 

The Walking Menagerie

(Booger is 7 years old, Kitty is 6 and the mice are unknown.)

The two white mice have head and tail showing.  The third is out of view.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One mouse has descended  to the doggie level

without a blink or gulp from the cat

 

 

 

 

 

Faye and Mouse

(Note the hair color match)

 

 

 

 

 

Pete and Mouse

(Note the non-match of the red auburn mousy mouse to the silver fox shade on my head.  He also came down to my hand and started nipping on the side of one of my nails and then let out a long stream of pee in glee.)

 

 

 

 

 

Greg Pike

The Manager of the walking "circus"

 

 

Finally here is an excerpt from one of the news stories in regards to Greg and his animals:

 

Greg Pike is the animal man. He lives out west, and sometimes he travels in a beat-up pick-up camper, going from town to town showing off his pets and supporting himself by selling pictures taken with them. "Animals are simple. It's people that are complicated." That's what he tells people. "I needed to put something together that would teach people that nothing's impossible and that we can all get along," is the way he tells it. His menagerie includes Booger, an 85 pound dog that is part Rottweiler, part Lab. Riding frequently on Booger's back is Kitty, a 14 pound cat. On Kitty's back are two white mice, Mousey and Spot. Besides showing off his pets, Pike runs an animal shelter in Taos, New Mexico, called The Peaceable Kingdom. The way he tells it, Kitty was raised around mice and has never tried to eat them. Kitty learned to sit on Booger when she was just three weeks old and preferred his warm body to the cold and wet snow. Mice like their own smell, so Pike put Kitty's harness in their cages so they would learn to like her smell. And now they travel together in harmony, oblivious to the rules of the food chain. Pike hopes his animals will inspire people and teach the world to get along2. Could we learn as much? Come, Lord Jesus, come! Bring your peace on earth!