Show Dinner time in dog town love animals not in a PETA sort of way but I love die smile on a dog and I am on my second set of pet rats Coupled with the bet that as a species I think we humans have about run our course I think it is way cool that the wild animals are coming back to urban areas and reminding us that we and pur domesticated minions are part of the food chain fat and slow living his entire life on an Eddie Bower dog bed Fluffles is next on the menu for having spent her life eating tuna out of the can and scamming the bird feeder for song birds Of course it is not Mr Binks or Fluffles’ respective faults They come from a strong and proud gene pool that was stretched to unrecognizable strands by humans in need of quadruped idolizers Now Fluffs and Binks are on the menu at the animal kingdom version of the Donner I again All over the country there are reports of wild animals coming back into cities and foraging for whatever is available Often what is available is Fluffles the calico and Mr Binks the wiener dog Anybody who is surprised hasn’t taken a biology class or tried to apply our hallowed economic policy to everyday ' life Animals and businesses always chase cheap and easy to obtain resources For humans it is Haitian sweat shops for wolves and mountain lions in the nearby hills it is Mr Binks who has grown non-PetsM- art - Party cafeteria And you know what the coolest things is? These suburban interlopers don’t care if you andor your pets are vegetarians or how much money you donated to the Sierra Club They don’t care about your Birkenstocks or the fact that you have never been' a deer hunter or owned a high powered rifle with laser sighting It’s dinner time and all God’s creatures gotta eat There are wolves running willy nilly around New York Gty bears munching on dis-- Mississippi tipping over gambling boats to get at the shrimp platters Or maybe ihe birds will start doing something like the birds in the movie “The Birds” Of course it is going further and children and small slow moving adults are endangered by wildlife Nobody wants to see one of our species be eaten by one those thumbless heathens but you know we aren’t that many centuries removed from this being a o daily occurrence E Like the late Fluffles and 3o Mr Binks we have become benign remnants of our former sinewy gene pool And maybe 2 0) it is just God’s way of saying X the “Next? last tenants disappeared and they ain’t getting their cleaning deposit back” u f ft These stimrtaalaterlopers foal care J Ll Um aaaer rear pets are metarlaas erheumach aeaerrea donated to the Sierra Clan" carded Twinkies in Connecticut and killer bees raiding Krispy Kreme dumpsters through the southwest in search of free calories Javalinas slinking ‘into Tucson mountain lions are bringing down property values : in Boulder rats are giving the rich and famous the willies in Hollywood Yeah go Hollywood rats! People have to be choking on the irony of that I can hardly wait till gray whales start swimming up the t o Dennis Hinkamp is a freelance a 'humor columnist living in Logan He is among a number of free- lance writers whose columns appear in The Herald Journal as part of an effort to expose readers to a variety of community voices He is not an employee of the newspaper Feedback at dhinkampOmsncom : ‘Beauty and Beast1 closes this weekend “Beauty and the Beast” the musical is returning to Salt Lake Gty The Broadway production is based on the animated film and will come to life pn stage at the Capitol Theatre in through Disney’s Aug 18 Tickets can be purchased by phone and outlets at or(888) 451-27355-AR- “Salt Lake full-leng- th Award-winni- ng Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” features the animated film’s Academy Award-winniscore with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by the late Howard Ashman plus an additional song by Ashman and Menken “Human Again” not heard in the film The play also includes seven brand-ne- w songs with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Tim Rice The book is written byLinda Woolverton who also wrote the screenplay for the animated film The play is directed by Robert Jess Roth With technical wizardry and imaginative design Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” is transferred from screen to ng : 87 Gty audiences will enjoy the same Broadway musical complete with spectacular production numbers Tony costumes and unforgettable songs which has been wowing audiences ' throughout the world” said Thomas Schumacher producer Disney ' Theatrical Productions stage enhancing the elements that made the animated film a world g favorite The Tony and costumes are by Ann Hould-War- d lighting design by Natasha Katz Director Robert Jess Roth choreographer Matt West and scenic designer Stanley A Meyer have worked together as a team for a number of years developing projects for Disney Jim Steinmeyer and John Gauhan creators of the illusions have invented effects that have been performed by David Copperfield Siegfried and Roy Harry Blackstone and many others Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” is the dassic story of Belle a young woman in a provincial town and the Award-winnin- Beast who is really a young prince trapped in a spell placed by an evil enchantress If the Beast can learn to love and be loved the curse will end ' and he will be transformed to his former self! 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