APhoto Of The Day — 12.18.09

A meerkat tries to eat meal worms stuffed inside a Christmas cracker at London Zoo, Thursday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Top Cutlines:

• 1. After their planned fireworks special did not go according to plan, Animal Planet’s hit show Meerkat Manor suffered an unfortunate reduction in meerkat population — Nic.
• 2. The City of CDA presents a special Christmas gift to Larry Spencer and Wayne Hoffman — Moscow Minidoka.
• 3. Garfield, a mere cat, was saved because he quit whle he was a head — JohnA.
• HM: Phaedrus