Sarah Watson was pregnant and past her...

Sarah Watson was pregnant and past her due date the other day when she walked into Glendale Adventist Hospital to see her husband, Mike, who had just undergone an appendectomy.

Suddenly, she felt some pains of her own. The hospital found a bed for her, and she gave birth to a 6-pound, 5-ounce girl, Katherine.

Mike Watson only had to ascend two floors to visit his wife and daughter. “It was really nice, all being in the same place,” he said.

On Thursday, the three Watsons went home--together.

If it looks like a dog, walks like a dog, and barks like a dog, it ain’t a bird. Especially not a 22-pound bird.

Nevertheless, this column erroneously reported Thursday that Teddy, a pooch who fetches the morning paper for Jack and Carole Brady of Pasadena, is a cockatoo. Actually, Teddy is a cocka poo .

A cockatoo, of course, is a parrot. And during an experiment at Flo’s Pet Shop in Los Angeles on Thursday, one member of that breed refused to try to heft a newspaper.

Don’t ask about cockatiels.

A few weeks after he turned down an offer to be a speech writer for Secretary of State James Baker, Dan Wolf showed up at his new job at Disneyland and donned a Pluto costume.

Wolf, a former press aide to county Supervisor Kenneth Hahn, hasn’t signed on to be a full-time celebrity mutt.

He’s actually the manager of public affairs for Disney Co. in Burbank. But all new Disney executives are required to spend a 20-minute stint during their orientation as one of the costumed characters. “It gives you an idea of just how dramatic the impact of the character is,” Wolf said.

Wolf was assigned Pluto, because both are about 5-foot-7; taller executives were handed Br’er Bear or Captain Hook outfits.

“At first I was embarrassed as I waddled out--Pluto has very wide paws so you have to waddle--but then you notice how immediately you are loved,” Wolf said. “Kids and grown-ups hug you and kiss you. I only had a couple of playful pulls at my tail. And when Mickey Mouse came out, and all the kids ran off to him, I actually felt jealous for a moment.”

There’s no mention of Arizona Mary, Southern California’s only woman ox-driver, in the new “Daring Women of the Wild West” exhibit at the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum in Griffith Park.

Also overlooked is stagecoach driver Charlie Parkhurst, a drinking, tobacco-chewing, dice player who was believed to be a man until she died. Nor is there any reference to Biddy Mason, a Georgia-born slave who took the unheard-of step--for a black--of testifying in her own defense in an 1856 court case in Los Angeles that won her her freedom.

“Our objective is to deal with the history of the Old West--we’re not devoted specifically to Los Angeles,” a museum spokesman said. The show’s star is the familiar Annie Oakley.

Historian Gloria Lothrop, co-author of “California Women: A History,” points out that this part of the Old West has contributed numerous other female personalities who could have been featured in the museum show but were ignored.

Maria Rita Valdez traded away half of her rancho in the 1850s because she was fed up with her neighboring brother-in-law, who allegedly stole her water and milked her cow. “That rancho is now largely Beverly Hills,” Lothrop notes.

And no study of Los Angeles would be complete without Pearl Morton and Cora Phillips, the famous brothel owners of 1890s Los Angeles. Their girls were “a familiar sight to the inhabitants of the courthouse world,” historian W. W. Robinson wrote. Also to Los Angeles Mayor A. C. Harper, who was forced to resign after it was disclosed that he was a frequent visitor. Harper claimed that he was only on a fact-finding mission.

The rock group Poison, whose most recent album is “Open Up and Say Ah,” has canceled tonight’s concert at the Los Angeles Sports Arena. The lead singer has bruised vocal chords.