OAKLAND, Calif. – Like many a lady of a certain age, Tiki feels the cold these days.

So workers at the Oakland Zoo are having a custom-fit coat made to keep the giraffe cozy this winter.

At age 18, venerable for giraffes, Tiki is subject to the vicissitudes of age. She already gets regular visits from a chiropractor, a masseuse and an acupuncturist.

Those are accepted treatments for horses, at least in the always edgy San Francisco Bay area, and provide a gentle way to treat animals without drugs, said zoo keeper Melissa McCartney. Massage helps get Tiki used to interacting with keepers. Acupuncture helps with her shoulder and withers.

However, coping with the effect of Bay Area winter chills on the African mammal had baffled keepers.

At 13 feet tall, Tiki is too big to be herded into a stall, and regular horse blankets are too ill-fitting to be left on without supervision lest she get in a tangle.

“Poor Tiki in her blanket looks like someone in her sister’s hand-me-downs,” said zoo spokeswoman Nancy Filippi.

The zoo staff got in touch with a horse-blanket designer who agreed to donate her services to tailor a coat for Tiki.

The jacket will be a tasteful forest green and feature a removable liner for those in-between days.

To get precise measurements for the tailoring, McCartney had to scramble up a ladder.

The result? A 40 extra, extra long.

Legally blind golfer scores hole-in-one in Florida

CLEARWATER, Fla. – A hole-in-one is rare on the golf course, but what are the odds of a blind golfer sinking one?

Leo Fiyalko couldn’t see it, but his golf buddies did – a hole-in-one on the fifth hole at the Cove Cay Country Club.

Fiyalko is 92 and has macular degeneration. He’s been golfing for 60 years, but his 110-yard shot with a five iron on Jan. 10 was his first hole-in-one.

“I was just trying to put the ball on the green,” Fiyalko said.

Fiyalko tees off every Thursday with a group of golfers ranging in age from 70 to 90-plus. He used to have a seven handicap, but now he needs help lining up his shots and finding his golf balls because he only has peripheral vision in his right eye. Jean Gehring was playing in his foursome and watched Fiyalko’s swing.

“I could tell it went on the green, (but) when we got up there I didn’t see it. I looked in the hole and there it was,” Gehring said.

Gehring said Fiyalko brushed off the feat, and had to be prodded to tell his wife about it at the end of the round.

Fiyalko’s friends at the country club presented him with a plaque last week to commemorate the feat.