Posted on 01/09/2006 4:33:44 PM PST by laney
Sharon Tendler met Cindy 15 years ago. She said it was love at first sight. This week she finally took the plunge and proposed. The lucky "guy" plunged right back.
In a modest ceremony at Dolphin Reef in the southern Israeli port of Eilat, Tendler, a 41-year-old British citizen, apparently became the world's first person to "marry" a dolphin.
Dressed in a white dress, a veil and pink flowers in her hair, Tendler got down on one knee on the dock and gave Cindy a kiss. And a piece of herring.
"It's not a perverted thing. I do love this dolphin. He's the love of my life," she said Saturday, upon her return to London.
Tendler, who said she imports clothes and promotes rock bands in England, has visited Israel several times a year since first meeting the dolphin.
When asked in the past if she had a boyfriend, she would always reply, "No. I'm going to end up with Cindy." On Wednesday, she made it official, sort of. While she acknowledged the "wedding" had no legal bearing she did say it reflected her deep feelings toward the bottlenosed, 35-year-old object of her affection.
"It's not a bad thing. It just something that we did because I love him, but not in the way that you love a man. It's just a pure love that I have for this animal," she said.
While she still kept open the option of "marrying human" at some stage, she said for now she was strictly a "one-dolphin woman".
She's hardly the jealous type, though.
"He will still play with all the other girls there," she said, of their prenuptial agreement. "I hope he has a lot of baby dolphins with the other dolphins. The more dolphins the better
Sounds fishy, don't think I will dive into this one.
I am sure they will get along swimmingly.
Atleast she didn't marry a female dolphin....probably just did it for the Halibut. ;-)
What's a boy dolphin doing with the name Cindy anyways!
Soon to come to a San Francisco near you.
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What is the porpoise of this story?
Betcha Tendler is Episcopalian ...
Great, now I have the theme song to Flipper in my head.
Surely Sharon Tendler must have had a porpoise for doing this, so I won't Flipper off. ;)
Well of course.
Good Ol' Flipper and Old Yeller did not ever have to worry about some predator human trying to marry them!
What is the porpoise of doing such a thing.
The porpoise of this story is to see if freepers find it fishy or tastey.
WOW many dolphin lovers were on this one! :)
Mixed marriages are tough. Are they going to raise the kids Jewish or Dolphin? Will it have a Bot Mitzvah?
I have some experience with Dolphins, can they tell a human female from a human male?. Hell, yes, they can! I can't tell you how, but don't doubt they can.
Hormones in the water are hormones in the water, period, to your average Dolphin!
Do you feel better now?
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