The eager Eastern Beaver will spend many days gathering sticks with which to build a snug house where he will spend the long winter nights drinking beer and playing cards with his buddies the moose and the giraffe... this is a picture we were working on in midsummer 2012. The swimming dog (Sticky) is real, and the background image in by LucieG_Stock, a photographer and digital artist on

DeviantArt.com. If you see Sticky on the street ask him for this picture on a postcard. The postcards are also available in Sticky's on-line store on Cafepress... Sticky's own version of the postcard looks something like this: