Blog tells cute animal story though Obama political angle is lame

January 29, 2009 | 7:22 am

While much of the world focused on such transitory things last week as the inauguration of the United States' 44th president, Barack Obama, some of you may have noticed the story about Mouse.

And wondered whatever happened.

Mouse is the normally calm horse who was supposed to be in the historic inaugural parade with 10,000 other people and animals on Jan. 20.

But Mouse has a thing about other horses attached to carriages. As in, he doesn't like them. Like elephants and mice. Tom and Jerry. Homer and Ned. Sarah and Katie.

So a horse-drawn carriage came by. And Mouse got a little spooked. And he backed into a parked truck and wedged his leg. You know how it is when one of your four legs gets caught between a winch and a hard place.

It gets a little complicated if you weren't there. But to make a long story somewhat longer, a lot of animated animal people could have been tranquilized that day instead of Mouse.

Well, our kindly blogging colleague Lindsay Barnett has the latest on Mouse over here on L.A. Unleashed. Spoiler Alert: The news is good.

Speaking of animals, the Obamas haven't reported adopting their promised poodledoodledor or whatever dog yet. But word from the vast video collection on animals on the Unleashed blog page is that the need for shelter homes is great and growing across the country these days.

It seems the economy is apparently prompting many Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Ron Paul disciples and Naderites to unload their apolitical pets. So if you can make room in your house and heart....

--Andrew Malcolm

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Photo credit: Kevin Wolf / Associated Press