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Charlies
Two stories about wild animals, living with people, both named Charlie.
First, the Daily Coyote blog has wonderful photographs of Charlie the coyote, who has lived with a human and a tomcat since he was 10 days old.
Second, a book I got from the Quality Paperback book club: A Buffalo in the House, by R. D.Rosen about a buffalo named Charlie who lives with a sculptor and her husband near Santa Fe and works as a model and buffalo ambassador..
One fascinating thing about both animals is how small they started out: Charlie the coyote was able to walk under the tomcat's belly (later, the tomcat was able to walk under Charlie's belly), and Charlie the buffalo is described as the size of a golden retriever and was brought home the first time in a dog crate.
Charlie the buffalo really did spend time in the house when he was a baby. And once when he was getting to be too big for the house, he snuck into the house and up the stairs and was found standing on the bed in the bedroom. There is a song (by Rolf Harris, my parents had one of his albums) about a herd of buffalos coming in the house and jumping on the bed... at least Charlie was just one buffalo.
I found the lyrics to the song "Two Buffalos" (they increase throught e verses by powers of two) here. For a long time growing up, we only had a few records in the house so I pretty well have the Rolf Harris albums lyrics memorized.
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