Subject: Re: seal in Lake Washington
Date: Apr 2 11:10:43 1997
From: Jim Elder - jime at eskimo.com


On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, M. Donahue wrote:

> This is not an April fool's joke---
>
> Yesterday afternoon I was at the north end of the arboretum (actually the
> big grassy area that borders the lake, between 520 and the Lake Washington
> Blvd. onramp to 520) exercising my dog, and well, a harbor seal
> jumped out of the water.
>
> I watched it for the next hour or so. It only
> appeared when a dog was in the water retrieving sticks, and I hate to
> anthropomorphize, but it seemed to want to play with the dogs. After it

You're not anthropomorphizing. I don't want to chase sticks in the water
with your dog and I don't think many other humans do either. At least not
in April. It must be caninomorphizing :-)

Jim Elder (jime at eskimo.com)
SEA, Inc.
7030 220th St SW
Mountlake Terrace, WA 98043