This is the story as reported:
WICHITA (AP) A search is underway in Wichita for a missing beaver.
The Wichita Eagle reports the beaver, named Chapa, broke out of his cage in the Kansas Wildlife Exhibit at Central Riverside Park in Wichita. He was discovered missing early Tuesday.
Animal display attendant Connie Storrie has searched miles of the Little Arkansas River for the little orphan animal she helped rescue three years ago. He was injured when he was found in one of the muddy pools of Chisholm Creek Park.
Storrie describes the beaver as "very shy". She worries about how he will fare in the wild after being coddled for three years on a diet of apples, carrots and sweet potatoes. She says anyone who sees the animal should call park officials and should not approach it.
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Now, I'm thinking that if I were the copy editor at the paper for that particular story I would now be in search of a new occupation after being fired for rephrasing certain sentences in that story. Especially the first and last sentences of the final paragraph. I would be on a quick trip to Hell for inserting the word "her" and doing other abominable things.
Also in the news
The same paper had another AP story a couple pages later reporting that a seven-foot alligator has been seen in the Monongahela River in Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania.
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I shudder to think of what would happen in Wichita if that gator somehow hitchhiked to the Little Arkansas River.
No wonder they can't find it. If someone named Connie Storrie told me to stay away from her beaver...I'd stay clear.
OH, NO, NO, NO!!! The wilder the beaver, the better!! 😉
