The one and just Francine. Photo: Ned Oliver/Axios
Since Patches, Richmond’s viral chunky cat, has actually recorded the country’s attention, we believed it deserved recalling at a few of Richmond’s other animal superstars.
Here are simply a few of the animal stories that have actually recorded headings and our hearts.
🐴 Percy
Maymont’s mini donkey and Richmond’s OG animal fatty was 100 pounds obese in 2013, and a years later on, he’s formally struck objective weight, Maymont representative Melissa Abernathy informs Axios.
- That’s right. He’s a lean, imply 350 pounds now.
🐆 Kumbali and Kago
What takes place when you bottle-feed a cheetah cub and it can’t return to its litter? You get it a laboratory puppy, naturally.
- That’s what the zookeeper at the Metro Richmond Zoo carried out in 2015, and 8 years later on, Kago (the laboratory) and Kumbali (the cheetah) are still buddies and sharing an enclosure at the zoo.
🐟 The VMFA goldfish
Some individuals ask, “Why?” But Richmonders ask, “Why not?” Why not put some goldfish in this empty pond on a personal museum property?
- Which is precisely what one man did at the VMFA, where a school of goldfish thrived for 4 to 7 years (nobody understands for sure) till a defective filter resulted in their unfortunate death.
🐶 Bagel the Beagle
Richmond’s most popular lost dog might never ever have actually been discovered, however thanks to a 2016 poster campaign from its poster-making biz owner (and a subsequent documentary), Richmonders will permanently consider Bagel whenever they see a beagle.
🐈 Francine
There are a lot of stores that have cats on the properties, however there’s just one Francine, the very best shop cat in the history of all shop cats.
Honorable reference:
🤭 The goose that struck Fabio in the face
Poor Fabio. The supermodel was simply attempting to take pleasure in a spring day at Busch Garden Williamsburg in 1999, taking the inaugural trip on Apollo’s Chariot, when wham — a goose, right in the face. And we will always remember.
