Since the new Elephant Odyssey opened at the San Diego Zoo last year, the old Hoof Mesa has been half empty with just the giraffes and the rhinos there.

Recently, though, they've refurbished some of the older pens. One is now a new flamingo lagoon, giving the Zoo two such lagoons. Others hold a kangaroo and a Mediterranean miniature donkey, both new to the Zoo, and a fourth one is a new Ambassador pen.

In the Ambassador pen, you can see any of the many animals that are taken to schools, conventions, and other meetings as official Ambassadors of the San Diego Zoo. You never know on any specific day what might be in the Ambassador pen, but recently I found the Zoo's Cheetah Ambassador:

However, something just wasn't right because in the same pen with our cheetah was this:

Our lovely dog and cheetah grew up together. They think they are siblings, and they are inseparable. Where one goes, the other goes.