Did an LXG scene the other night

with batyatoon. It was logged and will be converted into Diary format fairly soon, but at the moment my Diary entries from work are a bit curtailed, as I am getting used to new software and am in the process of packing things up to move to our new office building. The scene in question was a visit to the London Zoo, since no self-respecting visitor from the frozen North would pass up an opportunity to see the exotic beasts that London had to offer. Dorothy came along, of course - being cooped up in an apartment with no windows on a sunny day is just no fun - and so did both the dogs.

Given Prince's size and heritage, there was an interesting little encounter at one of the cages, the kind of thing which makes one grateful for old-school zoo design with bars and wires and none of this modern simulated environment nonsense that could spell trouble were a sufficiently motivated sled dog to get a running start. This was, however, a substitute for the original encounter I had thought of, which played on animals' natural response to something that smells like Prince. The original encounter had to be dropped. No matter how hard I tried, I could not honestly picture the Sergeant writing the specific words I had in mind to describe it, even if he knew that no one would ever see that page of his journal. However, that doesn't mean I can't mention it here...

( And now, the Diary of a Mountie entry that you'll never *actually* see. )