Animal Roundup

So much good animal stuff! First off -- remember "Show us your tits" Koko the sign-language gorilla? Two women gorilla handlers filed a lawsuit claiming that the director of the institution kept asking them to take off their shirts because Koko liked it? Lawsuit's been settled. (Thanks to SFist Jackson for pointing this out!)

A grandmother and granddaughter were thrown from a horse-drawn carriage during Petaluma's Santa Parade last weekend. Right as Santa and Mrs. Claus descended from a Petaluma tugboat to begin the festivities, an officer heard a crash and saw the grandmother being thrown from the carriage. The cop chased the two ponies, and managed to grab the 7-year-old granddaughter just before the ponies crashed the carriage into a parked car. The cop then got on his motorcycle and managed to corral the ponies right by Petaluma City Hall.

And an entrepreneurial young man from Redwood City attempted to make some money by ransoming off a dog he found in the neighborhood. He called the owner, said he wanted money for the dog, and asked her to meet him by a local 7-11. The dog owner called the cops, who found the boy walking the dog. He confessed right away, turned over the dog, and the owner said she wouldn't press charges.

Picture of Koko from Court TV