One of those "only in Oxford" moments...

[darwinian_woman]

As I was walking through university parks this afternoon, I passed a couple walking a dog. Or at least, that's how it didn't look, from a distance. It was much too small, and its gait was all wrong.

As the trio approached, I thought: mustelid? (I often think this, in my more lucid moments). Recollections of the "diving terrier" from Ring of Bright

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[spidrak]

Squeee!

Oxford is great :D

(and I am Matt. Hello.)

[darwinian_woman]

*waves* - yay, hello there! :D

[dyddgu]

Oh, that's a Dean at New.
You are the second person to mention the meerkat on my LJ in 48hrs! :-D

[darwinian_woman]

The Dean at New is a *meerkat*?

Good grief - this place gets better and better! ;)

:P

[darwinian_woman]

But of course. Dan can *is* Meerkat, if Dan so desire :)

[sir_rosealot]

I want one!

This one: http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/ligans/ecards/sam/meercat.jpg

But not this one: http://www.stephenoachs.com/photos/sdz-manic-meercat.jpg

[darwinian_woman]

Hehe - awwww... I thought the second one was quite sweet actually - does it really imagine that it's fooling anyone? :P

[sir_rosealot]

P.S. A couple of weeks ago, apotropaios posted about seeing someone walk what he thought was a lemur- possibly the same meerkat?

[darwinian_woman]

Ooh, perhaps! Although it would be nice to think that somebody is cultivating a whole menagerie of miscellaneous African mammals! If I happen to notice anybody walking an aardvark along Broad Street, then I may just have to sit down to avoid being overbalanced by the resultant grin :D