Green Daily

A Vancouver realtor and two anonymous organizations from Toronto have chipped in more than $3000 to save a 10 kg (22 lb), 100 year old lobster from being somebody's dinner.

Big Dee-Dee was caught off New Brunswick, Canada last week, and had been arousing interest from both conservationists and connisseurs of cooked crusteaceans. The owner of the the aptly named Big Fish shop where Dee-Dee was temporarily living had received more than 100 offers to buy the old boy, including one who would have paid a cool 5 grand to fly him to Ontario to be guest of honour at a company banquet.

However, all's well that ends well and next week a marine biologist will pack Dee-Dee up in a truck and take him down to the ocean, where he will be returned to the wet and wild from whence he came. After which he will likely get wander into another trap and end up back at the Big Fish, because lobsters aren't really all that smart. But it's still a happy ending, for now.

UPDATE July 21: Fearing that a transition back into colder water could kill Big Dee-Dee, Denis Breau, the owner of the Big Fish has decided to donate him to an aquarium instead. Probably the best news of all for Dee-Dee, who'll be getting 3 hots and a cot for the rest of his golden years.