The Round Pen, Dr. Dolittle and Me ... by Kathleen Kenner
When I was little I worshipped a movie hero who could talk to animals. I desperately wanted to do the same. I wanted to be Dr. Dolittle. I would sit for hours with little scraps of bread in my open palm, held open on the ground, trying to entice some local squirrel or chipmonk to come and eat out of my hand. Once or twice one actually did grab the bread from my fingers. While not a resounding success, I felt that I was on my way to waltzing in Dr. Dolittle's footsteps. (I also stalked all of our neighborhood's cats, ( full article ...)
Little Miss in Attentive Work Mode (have you noticed that there are goats in every shot Collin takes? Collin ... photograph the horses, not the goats!)
