Archive for May, 2009

Weird. There is a cute little cat running around outside my house with the biggest set of nuggets you’ve ever seen. I’ve been trying to catch him so I can spirit him off to the vet for a much needed neutering. Then I read an article about a hippo who just had an unsuccessful castration. [...]

We are delighted to announce that we now joined the legions of craftspeople who are selling their wares on Etsy. That’s right, we have opened our own Etsy store which you can see at HippoMojo.etsy.com. Etsy, in case you don’t know, is a website for sales of handcrafted items. Our first item is pictured below, [...]

I found this story recently on BBC news: “Two rare bronze statues of hippos, commissioned by the late animal park owner John Aspinall, have been stolen from the grounds of a house in Kent. The statues, one of a full hippo and the other of the head of a hippo, are worth £15,000 and were [...]

Hippo Mojo recently learned of a fabulous trip taken by Margaret Martin, self-styled godmother to famous and tame hippo Jessica of South Africa. Margaret was kind enough to share an account of her adventure with us. I am the Godmother of a hippopotamus! You did hear me correctly. My Godchild is Jessica The Hippo you [...]

This is a nice little movie about Jessica the hippo:

Holy Hippos! Obviously, we here at Hippo Mojo have had our big heads and bulgy eyes submerged under cool water for far too long. Yesterday a yucky email from a bad person prompted us to roar out of the river and stomp up the riverbank to fight off our enemies. No, not crocodiles, something far [...]