Today: It’s me or the sloth.

When my sister was born, I thought she looked like a complete sloth.  I had done extensive research on the species, as only an almost three-year-old could: I read scanned pictures in a book called Zoo Babies.  Looking back, she takes offense to this comparison.  All I know is that I thought the sloths were cute and I thought she was cute.  And that she had surprisingly long fingernails for a baby.

Recently, I’ve come across a bunch of You Tube videos of my sister’s real family, filmed at Aviarios, Costa Rica’s Sloth Sanctuary.

Meet the Sloths

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The person who filmed the video above describes the sanctuary are being run by “legendary sloth whisperer Judy Arroyo.”  Look out, Cesar Milan, there’s a new whisperer in town.  Could you imagine if sloths took over Animal Planet?  I would totally be hooked on the following programs:

• It’s me or the sloth
• Judy Arroyo, Sloth Whisperer
• …Sloth, Bounty Hunter

I can just picture a crusty, leather-skinned Sloth with a ferocious blond mullet, chasing down fugitives with his raspy-voiced sloth wife Beth at his side… This has hit show written all over it.

Also On Tap for Today:

• 15 Celebrity mullets. Did the bounty hunter make the (hair) cut?
• Meetings, meetings, and more meetings
• Flowers: pretty to look at, and you can ’em, too!

If you could produce your own smash TV show, what would it be about?