Alan has a cat...his name is Bob

Do you have a pet?  What is it...a dog, a cat, a bird...or maybe even fish?  My wife and I have always had pet cats..well, since we bought our first house...our first cat came with our first house, and his name was Moey.  Moey lived a very long time. We had him for 23 years.

My son Andrew missed Moey so much that we had to replace him with a similar looking cat...his name is Bob.  Bob is now 17 years old, and we have had him since he was a kitten.

Bob likes to help with chores around the house...he just loves to watch Coral do the ironing.  Here are some photos of Bob:

In the photo above, Bob is lying on my wife's sewing table, watching her do the ironing...he has a clothes hanger on his paw.

Do you remember Nemo?

Do you remember Nemo, what he is, where he lives, and what he eats?

Well, first of all, Nemo is a star of a Disney movie....did you see it?  He is a member of a family of fish commonly called Clown Fish.  Clown Fish usually look like the one above, but they are not always orange with white and black stripes.  A different one is shown below:

Isn't this one pretty?  Yellow with blue stripes.  Do you see more colours?

Clown Fish live in tropical Coral Reefs, one of which is a very big reef off the east coast of Australia...the Great Barrier Reef, which is so big it can be seen from space by astronauts.  Other tropical reefs are found in the Indian Ocean and in the Red Sea....do you know of other such reefs?

Clown Fish live among, and sometimes within, sea anemones which have poisonous tentacles.  The Clown Fish is not hurt by the tentacles, and actually helps keep this sea creature clean by eating food scraps it has not consumed.  The Clown Fish also eats algae and plankton...very very small plants and animals that live in the sea.



The following is a picture of  a Clown Fish living inside an anemone:

Can you see the fish?  Look at the tentacles he is hiding behind...they are colourful too!

And here is a picture of Nemo's home...the Great Barrier Reef, from Space...the Reef is the white bits inside the blue ocean...the brown and green is Australia.  How about that?