DAVE CURTIS WRITES

Dear comrade Jon of the glorious peoples CFZski,

I need help! No, not the medical kind of help.

On my recent trip to Belarus I visited Zoosad, a zoo that houses animals native to Belarus. In three cages next to each other there was a wolf, a fox and a ???????? what is it? Can you identify it for me. Its some sort of white dog. I am sorry the picture is crap.

I Must say I was impressed with the Bison. I forgot just what big buggers they are. Belarus itself is like a giant nature reserve!

With a land mass a similar size to England but with a population of only 10 million people vast areas are heavily forested, punctuated with lakes and rivers, and because the land is so flat the roads are straight as an arrow and once I left Minsk airport and headed east it was like driving down a tree-lined avenue! Mile after mile of Birch forest still populated by moose and wild boar. A beautiful country.

Regards Davey Curtovski


Hail Comrade,

You are to be congratulated for your succesful mission, but not for your photography, which you so rightly say is `crap`. I would put forward the supposition that it is an Arctic Fox (Alopex lagopus or Vulpes lagopus) although the species is not native to Belarus.

But according to Wikipedia, neither is the red fox. I suspect a capitalist plot.

All hail the glorious Fortean revolution.

Comrade Jonski

P.S. I bet you didn't remember to bring me any vodka