CBS Early Show Appearance

This past Thursday Chris made a brief appearance on the CBS Early Show.  We got a call on Wednesday from the directors of the Humane Society of New York asking if we could join them on the show.  They were taking a few adoptable animals over for a segment about pets, but didn't have a bird.  We arrived at the studio at 7:30 am and Chris shot a promo/teaser for the pet segment with the CBS resident veterinary expert Dr. Debbie Turner.  That aired about 8 am.  Chris was supposed to follow the dog, cat & hampster on the live segment, but their portion took so long they ran out of time and poor Chrissy didn't get to go on.  But, he did manage to charm everyone in the studio as usual.  The crew was interested to meet Chris, because they had heard he was recently a model for Neiman Marcus.  Everyone was very nice and friendly at CBS.  Chris posed for photos and sat on everyone, including the very lovely Early Show anchor, Harry Smith.  Even though Chris was only on the air in the promo, it was a fun adventure, and we have this great photo as a souvenir.

Chris & Harry Smith bonding

The Little One

Holly is the smallest of all my pets.  He's also the last pet who came to be part of my pet family and the youngest.  For all of those reasons I sometimes refer to him as "the baby" or "the little one."  Being little Holly does things the rest of us can't like landing on the leaves of my plants or sitting on my fax machine.  Tonight, while I was in the kitchen and Chris and Holly were across the room playing in Chris' cage top play area, I thought I was hallucinating when I looked up and saw Holly sitting on Chris' back.  It looked like a scene out of the Musicians of Bremen.  The moment passed and I thought "no, can't be."  A moment later I looked up and there he was on Chris' back again!  I ran over to the cage to get a better look and sure enough I was not hallucinating.  But, once they heard me they turned their heads to look at me and Holly lost his balance and slid down Chris' back.  I don't want to know why Holly was on Chris' back, I just hope they don't hurt each other with their crazy antics.  Unfortunately I didn't get a photo of this unbelievable sight, but I do have a photo of Holly balancing on my water glass.  How he managed to perch on the rim without knocking it over is a feat only a physicist could explain.

Holly perched on my glass, defying gravity