Buy a water buffalo for Bradley
This is the picture that greeted me in my mailbox today on the cover of this holiday’s edition of the Heifer International catalog. It seems like Bradley Whitford and Jane Kaczmarek are on the cover every year, and why not? How cute are they? Don’t they just make you want to buy a water buffalo?
I’ve never actually sprung for the buffalo (the donation’s $250; you can buy a share of one for $25, but that just somehow never seems as worthy), but I have gifted family members with chickens and rabbits and other small and less-expensive livestock. The critters actually go to needy families around the world, but you do get a nice certificate to put under the tree.
This year’s catalog, in addition to the adorable couple above, features the following celebs peddling animal donations: Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson, with lambs; Ed Asner, with a heifer; Alton Brown, with a goat; Patricia Heaton, with goats; Walter Cronkite, with chicks; Susan Sarandon, with llamas; Diane Lane, with … I think maybe another llama; and Joe Montegna, with an animal I can’t identify — he’s on a page with pigs, but he’s petting something furry. It’s a cute catalog, anyway, although it could apparently use more detailed photo captions.
If you want to honor your Studio 60 love in a philanthropic sort of way, Heifer International is clearly something Whitford has a longstanding relationship with. Then again, if you go to his charity auction site, Clothes Off Our Back, you can forget about helping the developing world and score some sweet Swarovski crystal ornaments decorated by the likes of Kristin Chenoweth, Jennifer Garner, and Ellen DeGeneres, none of whom had to pose with livestock. That particular auction closes December 10.
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