Von Schafen, Wölfen und Klobürsten...Knut and his toilet brush

Remember this collage from Deta?

Knut mal als Schaf inmitten von Schafen...-
Knut as sheep among sheep

Kein Wunder, dass sich da auch mal ein Wolf vergriffen hat...-

Probably the wolf no.1 must have seen Knut earlier among the sheep
before he was fortunately stopped by wolf no.2 with the words
"Ooops, that's no SHEEP, it's a famous POLAR BEAR!"

Während ich zum "Monatsgedenktag" an Knut nach Bildern suchte, fand ich obigen Cartoon versteckt in einem alten Wolfsfolder von Simba, nun ja, und weil es dann so passend war, kommt dann gleich noch das... -

While I was looking for a pic to post on Knut's monthly commemorating day, I found this old cartoon somewhere hidden in one of Simba's old wolves' folders. So I thought OK, now it's time for...

The adorable toilet brush...

Enriching Knut's life even later on...

Proving once again that even polar bears share inseparable bonds
with objects cherished as young

Nicht zum Einsatz kam ein eher farbenfreudigeres Mdell das seinerzeit Simba zu einem Geburtstag ihres besten Freundes ausgesucht hatte, um damit den Beschwerden von Besuchern ein Ende zu machen, die Knut lieber mit anspruchsvollerem Spielzeug gesehen hätten...-

A new and more colour-friendly model selected by Simba and sent to her best friend in order to stop remarks of complaining visitors, who would have preferred seeing him with more sophisticated toys, never seemed to have seen the light of his enclosure...))

Und da wir gerade von Verbindungen sprechen...
Von Kindesbeinen an hatte Knut ja eine sehr besondere zu den Wölfen,
seinen Freunden aus dem Nachbargehege...-

From early childhood on, Knut had a special one to the wolves,
his friends in the neighbouring enclosure...

Unvergesslich der Tag als er mal kurz die Verabredung zu einem seiner monatlichen Geburtstagstreffen mit den Wölfen bestätigt-

Unforgettable the day
when he confirmed the appointment
for one of his monthly birthday parties with the wolves...
Must have been in July 2007 witnessed by Frau Schnatterliese

Source: Frau Schnatterliese & Réné Meier

Wir erinnern uns,
jeden Monat in der Nacht zwischen dem 5. und dem 6. eines Monats wurde gekegelt...

Bowling time in the night between each 5th and 6th of a month

Aber nicht genug mit 1a Haltungsnoten, es zeigte sich auch, dass Knut sehr schnell anderer Sprachen mächtig wurde, aber das führe nun zu weit...-

But not enough with 1a style points, it showed as well, that Knut very quickly managed to communicate in other languages but that would lead too far away now...

Credits:
- Knut among sheep/Bernadeta

- Klobürste 1/Marion K, Klobürste 2/rbb, Klobürste 3/Frau Schnatterliese, Klobürste4/ Simba, Weitere Klobürsten werden übrigens noch immer gerne entgegengenommen...:))

- Wolfscartoon...Keine Ahnung, wo Simba den gefunden hatte...Sorry, Simba didn't leave the link

- Mehr zum Geburtstagskegeln im Oktober 2007 /More about the monthly bowling events here

Note:
Knut als Wolf/Hartmuth, dessen Forum bzw. das KnutTagebuch wieder online ist...
The last pic was taken by Hartmuth, his forum incl. Knut's Diary is online again...!!!

Vor 2 Jahren...Two years ago...Il y a 2 ans...

23.03.2007 ...It was a Friday....First public appearance of...A little polar bear in Bearlin...Together with a somehow untypical polar bear Mom...Same time in Rodrigues/Indian Ocean...
....a dog with red-brown fur waiting for some chicken bones...And two days later....Sunday then...

Knut is…when Papi Simba on 25th March shouted from the living-room, “You know, in Berlin they have now a little polar bear…” And Mami Simba thought “ Little polar bear, nice, so what…?? Haven‘t there been any other important news in the world ?”Knut is… how she walked next morning to her ex-(free) online-center, and how she googled then fully automatically, means without any thinking, polar bear cub and Zoo Berlin even before she checked her e-mails (!!!)….and that she detected then that the Internet had already listed several thousand entries and that she found out the name, …just Knut, simply Knut…Knut is…how she watched then a discovered video time and time again, that she asked the cleaning and security staff to join her, that she virtually forced them to watch it too, not to mention all the other people waiting for the PC in the queue…just to exceed shamelessly the 10 minutes limit and also to avoid leaving that place completely tear-stained as this tiny tot, hold by his eminently special mommy was just too much for her simple knitted island nature…Knut is…that consecutively one could find her nearly every day 8 o‘clock sharp, before she continued then her odyssee to the next computers, in the beginning with 3 Floppys in her bag, shortly later with at least 10 …and yes, after not even one week all the tourists knew too that she was queuing again for Knut …at home then downloading everything on the homey PC with a HD indicating each week a memory decrease of at least 2% …

And today...
Knut is...increase of disk space, pen drive instead of floppys, ADSL instead of a dial up connection, running 2 blogs and 3 mail accounts...and being completely hooked even after 2 years...so it got even worse!

Photo credits: dpa (1,2), A.Huss (3,9), Simba(4), Hartmuth (5,6,7), Idefix (9)