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Oh yes - that would have been amazing!

Deb.

I can imagine, but not as impurresive as the way Frank can make me roar ;-)

Purrs, Waffles

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20 years or so ago, while I was in college, I worked 5 years as a
security guard.  The pay wasn't great, but it was easy to get weekend
hours that fit in well with going to college during the week.  During
most of that time, I was stationed at a factory located next to the
Cumberland River in downtown Nashville, Tennessee.  On one extremely
cold winter night, I was checking the back parking lot around 3 AM
and saw a snowy owl flying down the river.  It had a wingspan of at
least six feet, and was solid white.  I couldn't hear it go by, even
though it was only about 50 feet away (roughly 16 meters).  I was
rather surprised to see it, as they are generally Arctic birds and
Nashville is about as far south as Algeria.  I asked a keeper at the
Nashville Zoo a few days later, and learned that, when there is a
shortage of prey animals in the Arctic, snowy owls have sometimes
been seen as far south as the Gulf of Mexico.

Lions were native to Europe.  The Romans pretty much hunted them out for
their games but I think they lasted till the middle ages.  Its the reason
so many coat of arms have lions on them but you never see a tiger.