The Welcome to Prang and Company's Weekly Furniture Digest, the show that was, but won't be again.

Unless it will be, at which point it wasn't.

Last week we covered in depth the topic of manatees, in particular how much an adult manatee tends to weigh.

And for this I must issue a heartfelt apology.

It turns out that despite their ornate and dainty appearance,

Manatees are not in fact classified as furniture, let alone as antiques, let alone as Edwardian antiques.

And this prompted many of our subscribers to ask what it was that we were in fact going on about.

It's clear to us now that on last week's episode we did not meet the Prang and Company

guarantee of excellence.

And for that, we are truly, truly sorry

in the sort of way that people who are actually not sorry at all

tend to be sorry, which is to say pleased.

And with that out of the way it's time for our newest feature

Manatee fact hour.

Manatee fact hour. Manatees subsist on algae,

mangrove leaves and sea grass and eat 10% of their body weight each day.

They grow new teeth throughout their lives,

with their older teeth falling out

and being replaced by new teeth that grow further back in their mouths.

They have six neck vertebrae which is unusual for

mammals and they share that characteristic with the tree sloth.

Mammities are mostly made of mahogany, oak, pine wood and walnut and feature large paneled doors with metal

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