Thread: Robert

Robert and Johann

Very late one night, or perhaps it was very early in the morning, Robert was walking along the edge of a small pond. He was out doing what he did every night after dark. Robert was looking for food. As will happen from time to time, Robert wasn’t alone that night looking for food. As it turns out, Johann had also decided the pond might be a good place to find food. They both happened to know that there were a small flock of ducks that lived on this pond and because they are what is known as domestic ducks, they can’t fly. Since Robert is a bobcat and Johann is a coyote, they are also unable to fly so they both believed they’d have easy pickin’s that night. Until they bumped into one another.

As will happen when people are greedy and hungry also happens to our woodland friends. Robert and Johann began a discussion about who was there first and whose pond this was and therefore whose ducks they were. As will also happen, the conversation became a little loud and perhaps a bit animated until Basil, a very friendly pit bull terrier who lives in the house about twenty five yards from the pond heard Robert and Johann. Basil ran to the door very excited that there seemed to be a party at the pond. Basil began telling Robert and Johann that the only thing keeping him from joining their little party was a this screen door and twenty five yards of lawn. By this time Robert and Johann’s conversation had ended and they had begun to dance. But Basil, interrupted their dance.

Johann and Robert knew the old saying that two is company and three’s a crowd so they decided the party was over. Johann ran away. But something happened to Robert and he found that he couldn’t leave. Maybe he was enjoying the water too much or maybe he decided to meet Basil but whatever the reason, Robert stayed there at the edge of the pond for the rest of his life.

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