Burk's Ark

Steve and Barbara Burk live in South Florida, where hurricanes are a part of life. For their large brood of pet family members, there's necessary planning in how they're kept safe when a storm approaches - it's an amazing story, entertaining and fascinating at the same time.

Here's an "at a glance" list of pets in their household:

• 14 horses
• 12 goats
• a baby llama (Buddy, pictured here)
  
• two Pekin ducks
• two bearded dragons
• a blue hyacinth macaw
• a red-footed turtle
• a fountain filled with koi fish
• an 80-pound Siberian lynx.

The article includes a video showing how everyone knows their own emergency route - my favorite is seeing the lynx jump off the kitchen counter, a far cry from my swooshing Minnie away as I make my daughter's lunch each morning.