Bootsie, the 24 pound whale

Bootsie came to us in March 2003, when we took him in as a favor to someone who could no longer keep her "baby". He came with his own chair, which we put (with him) upstairs with Hunny. Bootsie stayed under the bed for a month, and then started venturing out and downstairs. We thought the stairs would be great exercise for him! Since then, he has decided that downstairs, in the Master Bedroom, is his home base. He rarely ventures far from the King bed, which is none too big for him, except when he is taking an occasional drink using his motion sensor faucet in the sink. With his big 24 pound body and spindly legs, he reminds us of the dancing hippos in Disney's Fantasia, and he is able to leap and spin with about as much grace as those hippos!

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