Tid Bits#1

Hi all, this is just a little something that I am trying. I hope you don't think it is spamming (ugh). It's sort of a pass around page of serious and fun things I have found on the internet relating to all Animals. I hope you enjoy the contents and pass the page on to your friends.

Dear God please send me somebody who'll care!
I'm tired of running, and sick with despair.

My body is aching, it's racked with pain.
And dear God I pray as I run in the rain,

That someone will love me and give me a home
A warm cozy bed and a big juicy bone.

My last owner tied me all day in the yard
Sometimes with no water and God that was hard!

So I chewed my leash God and I ran away
To rummage in garbage and live as a stray.

But now God I'm tired and hungry and cold
And I'm so afraid that I'll never grow old.

They've chased me with sticks and hit me with stones
While I run the streets just looking for bones!

I'm not really bad God, please help if you can
For I have become just a "victim of man!"

I'm wormy dear God and I'm ridden with fleas
and all that I want is a owner to please!

If you find one for me God, I'll try to be good
I won't chew their shoes, and I'll do as should.

I will love them, protect them and try to obey
When they tell me to sit, to lie down or to stay.

I don't think I'll make it to long on my own
Cause I'm getting so weak and I'm Oh so alone.

Each night as I sleep in the bushes I cry
Cause I'm so afraid God, that I'm going to die!

I've got so much love and devotion to give
That I should be given a new chance to live.

So dear God please, please answer my prayer
And send me somebody who will really care.

It was just before summer vacation and a kindergarten teacher was receiving some gifts from her students.

So the florist's son handed her a present and she held it over her head and shook it. The teacher said, "I'll bet I know what's in there, it's flowers." And the kid said "That's right, but how did you know?" The teacher said, "Oh, just a wild guess."

The next student was the candy store owner's daughter. And the teacher held her gift over her head and she shook it. The teacher said, "I bet I can guess what's in there, it's a box of candy. And the girl said, "That's right how did you know?" The teacher said, "Oh, just a wild guess."

Now the next gift was from the son of the liquor store owner. And the teacher held his gift over her head and shook it, but it was leaking so she touched a drop of the leakage with her finger and put it to her tongue and said, "Oh is it fine wine." The boy said, "No it's not." So the teacher raised the box over her head and shook it again. And she touched another drip to her tongue, and she said, "It's champagne, right?" And the boy said "No it's not". So the teacher said, "I give up, what is it?" The boy said, "A Puppy!!"

A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is to small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as feelers and antennae, helping to judge the precise width of any passage.

When frightened or threatened, a mother rabbit may abandon, ignore or eat her young. (VDM)

In 1880 there were approximately 2 billion passenger pigeons in the United States, By 1914 the species was extinct.

The female pigeon cannot lay eggs if she is alone. In order for her ovaries to function, she must be able to see another pigeon. If no other pigeon is available, her own reflection in a mirror will suffice.

A pup went to his father with
questions in his mind,
about the world around him;
about life, nature and time.

First he asked about the
world, about how he came to be,
about how he knew right from
wrong and about the mystery
of the sea.

The father smiled and answered
his son in a riddled rhyme,
"Your life will go onward from
now and you shall know in time.

But over the course of time
remember that you have in your paw,
the power to give life by mercy and
the power to kill by claw.

But always know you are no king,
for nature has given this power to others
Though they shall not harm those who live a good life,
for all of nature is your sisters and brothers.

The pup nodded to this farther
then asked him some other words,
About the bountiful river and
the mighty caribou herds.

The father smiled and answered his son again,
looking into the young pups eyes,
answering with the same soft spoken words,
in the same riddled rhyme.

"The water we drink and food we eat
is granted to us for life,
but each must only take as much as the need,
for that is only right.

But each is destined to grow old.
and to soon after have all health gone,
So then they might fall prey to nature
so that others may live on"

The pup again nodded once
turning to his father to ask him of his life,
How he had come to know all he did
about pain, suffering and strife.

"My son," he whispered to the pup
still gazing in his eyes,
"I know of what I speak my son,
through using my own mind.

I'll tell you of what I've seen my son
and of what the shamans preach,
Live your life well but harm no other,
for the purpose of life is to teach."

To this the pup just nodded,
making this knowledge his own,
he then sweetly nuzzled his father,
as the enlightenment in his eyes shown.

Then the father spoke unto his son
about the strangest of nature's clan,
Of the ones who've learned so very little,
he warned his son of MAN.

"Be fearful son of a race called man
for they know not what they do,
They have been given gifted abilities
far beyond our own, yet utilize so few.

They act not for their brothers and sisters,
but for the betterment on one,
They've violated many of natures laws
but know not what they've done.

Man has abandoned the powerful mind he has
which first allowed him to thrive,
But he will reap what he has sewn
once he can no longer survive."

With that the father nuzzled his son
and bid him on his way,
knowing his son would lead a wealthy
life and pass his knowledge on one day.
~Kayote Blackwolf~

My name is Tom Rudge and I live in Orlando Fl. I have been Rehabilitating Wildlife for about 20 years. I have learned thru these years that you have to have a sense of humor to a extent or you will go "nuts". Recently I went thru a bout of cancer that has limited my rehabilitation to a extent. I feel a real deep commitment to our Wildlife, so I hopped on the internet to pass the word around. If you get a chance please visit my website and let me know if I am doing it.
or
http://members.tripod.com/Thomas_Rudge/

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