Straight from the horse's mouth
It turns out I'm a dolphin, writes our News Blogger David Burrows. It could be worse. My colleague Simon is a horse - apparently.
There was I this morning looking through the Shropshire Star's Grand National sweepstake kit, using my highly scientific method of finding a horse with a funny name to bet on (cos horses always have weird names, don't they?) and amid the Kandjar D'Alliers and the Sonevafushis there he was . . . Simon.
I don't know what it is but animals with human names are funny. Simon the Horse. Say it out loud . . . bet you can't help smiling.
Then my attention was drawn to a story about a dolphin. Police are clamping down on jet skiers and sailors who harass the dolphin which has made its home off the Kent coast.
It's name? Yep . . . Dave. Dave the Dolphin. Not as funny as Simon the Horse I grant you, but made me smile (dolphins are always smiling . . . it's cos they know things . . .)
So next time you're at a zoo and you laugh at a humorous buffalo remember, he's probably called Bob (not Bill . . . that's just too obvious). And he's always certainly mates with a Giraffe. Called Geoff.
