{"id":352,"date":"2005-12-21T22:25:18","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T05:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/?p=352"},"modified":"2007-02-11T09:06:11","modified_gmt":"2007-02-11T15:06:11","slug":"if-you-like-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2005\/if-you-like-animals.html","title":{"rendered":"If you like animals…"},"content":{"rendered":"

We just enjoyed a visit from Grandpa and Grandma Cottrill. We celebrated an early Christmas, and tonight we even went for a swim.<\/p>\n

Grandma Cottrill is an animal lover, so here are a few links in her honour. These are the kind of links you’re likely to see in our Random Link of the Moment (as soon on our home page and other pages too). But this time, I thought I’d introduce a few in my blog.<\/p>\n

First, here’s a fairly new blog site that is rapidly becoming very popular on the net – check out Cute Overload \ud83d\ude09<\/a> for really<\/i> cute animal pictures – yikes!<\/p>\n

Next, check out the video of this rather intelligent parrot – Einstein<\/a>, as seen on Animal Planet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Make your own weird and wonderful animals at SwitchZoo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Finally, some of my favourite animal photos from our own photo album – <\/p>\n

  • 4 friends<\/a><\/li>\n
  • A friendly Chameleon<\/a><\/li>\n
  • Hannah and the Hippo<\/a><\/li>\n
  • Hannah and peacock<\/a><\/li>\n
  • Nathanael and Sasha<\/a><\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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