So it turns out animal-shifter romance novels are a thing!

So it turns out there's a whole genre of this random animal-shifter romance novel thing! And they all look so amusingly bad!

Educating the Platypus is book #17 of a series!

There are books like Compromises for His Moose with a description of: When Adam Kingston decides to enjoy a cat nap in tiger form, he never thought he’d be woken by the cries of young moose shifters, nor did he expect to need to save them from a douchy wolf shifter and his buddies.

Mutegi's Sweet One: Warthog shifter (how romantic?).

Accepting His Animal: An elephant shifter finds his mate: A tiger shifter.

Texas Longhorn Surprise: The surprise is that he's a Texas longhorn bull shifter.

Spider Sense: No surprise, the main character is a spider shifter.

In the Eyes of Crazy: Hyena shifters.

Hope for a Buffalo: The haunting eyes in the picture capture Caleb Belikov’s attention, and he knows he has to confirm whether the white buffalo is really just an animal, or a shifter trapped at a zoo near Albuquerque. Caleb talks his alpha and a few friends into accompanying him and discovers not only is the buffalo a shifter, but he’s his mate.

The Platypus author wrote another series which is described as "a motorcycle gang made up of different types of gay shapeshifters trying to find their mates".

I might just spend the rest of the year reading these books. I hope they're as amusing as they seem.

Alaskan peace officers must be bored

Now and again I look at classified ads from Alaska. I figure one day I might stumble upon the perfect reason to move up there. While today wasn't that day, I happened upon the police blotter. Whoever wrote these reports up must have been really bored! All these are from one issue of a newspaper (so a week of time).

Drunk Disturbance – Officers responded to a bunkhouse regarding a disturbance report and found a gaggle of people running about, yelling and pointing at one another. Witnesses told officers that the “disturbance” was nothing more than one man disputing the validity of another’s “tough guy” attitude.

Disorderly Conduct – An inebriated and disruptive Samuel K. Kulang, 33, was arrested on one count of Disorderly Conduct after he challenged officers and crewmembers alike to fight.

Officers responded to a location from which a 911 call had been made, apparently inadvertently. Officers found a mother and daughter in an argument over the daughter’s friends and desire to go out late at night.

Drunk Disturbance – Officers responded to a boarding house regarding threats of violence. An intoxicated tenant, upset over the volume of music played by an apparently sober tenant, called the sober tenant bad names and implied that nobody liked him.

Domestic Disturbance – Officers responded to the home of two drunken brothers who were unable to play well with one another and required police to tell them to just get along.

Assault – Officers responded to a bunkhouse regarding a report of a fight, and found that one man had taken it upon himself to spray his sleeping roommate with beer and then hit him in the head with the empty bottle when the sleeping man expressed his annoyance.

Drug Law Violation – Third party report of a white man with marijuana in a phone booth. The report was later amended to be not marijuana but just a lot of paper.