Aston, scraped vipers, gerbils and much more

[GrimbutGerbil]

As ever, the gerbils are yours to command...

And my cat won't let me near this one.

The cat in that illustration looks suitably unimpressed at the idea…

In your great mercy, you didn't include a link to the whole site😧

I just used your link & scrolled down.

Checkmate, I think.

Oh fair enough so, Ted

@Boiledbeetle I think there's rumours started by me of conflict between the gulls and the gerbils at the Bluestocking. Perhaps an idea for the next chapter?

That's just not true! Stop trying to start an interspecies war.

It's aaaaages since we heard about the gerbils - too busy watching the Olympics😠or visiting the Bluestocking Arms🍹?
Well they might like to learn what their Estonian cousins have been getting up to:
Vilkur the hamster begins work with Estonian police | News | ERR

@MarieDeGournay that is a wonderful story, I wonder if he'll get a collar number?

I love the police hamster. We hear so much about cats with jobs (which I’m all for, never object to people paying their cat tax on a thread I’m on) but it’s good to know rodents are keeping their end up.

I love this bit:
He's already been to one meeting, where he was very helpful, and we now have really exciting plans for the future.

I remember Pawfficer Donut from twitter. Fine cat.

Oh I've so missed your multitalented gerbils! Wonderful

I've just spotted this in the article, I missed the surrealism of it the first time round:
'While some animals have lived in the police station in the past, they have usually been fish.'
A bit like occasional tables, then?

Is there any AI Lady Voldemerch pics yet? Asking for a friend.

As in, what were they the rest of the time?😁

Who is Lady V?

@MarieDeGournay

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Surely when the police fish were not being fish they were being clowns?

It is KJK's new nickname apparently.

NOOOOO!😱 Mergerbs? The stuff of nightmares! And budgerigerbs are nearly as bad.
Stay fluffy, little gerbils🐱

Oh dear! No Gerbil Spotter Badge for you. That was, of course, a merbudgie. THIS is a budgerigerb (I placed him underwater & the AI added the clownfish, unrequested).

Jolly little fellow, the budgerigerb, & with a surprising ability to breathe underwater. The Estonian police would love one.

I tried, but the AI hasn't got the capability yet, sorry.