Chatty, please forgive me for putting this here, but it seemed fitting with the "pet" theme going on in here. Lionspaaw just sent me the cutest pictures and article about a baby hippopotamus. It survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast and has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise, in an animal facility in the port city of Mombassa, officials said.

The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down Sabaki River into the Indian Ocean, then forced back to shore when tsunami waves struck the Kenyan coast on December 26, before wildlife rangers rescued him.

If anybody wants to see the pic's, just let me know. They are precious! JJ