Leopard vs. Poodle

A wealthy old lady decides to go on a photo safari in Africa, taking her
poodle along for company.


One day the poodle starts chasing butterflies and before long, discovers
that he's lost. Wandering about,
he notices a hungry-looking leopard heading rapidly in his direction.



The poodle thinks, "Oh, oh!" Noticing some bones on the ground close by,
he immediately settles down to
chew on the bones with his back to the approaching cat. Just as the
leopard is about to leap, the poodle
exclaims loudly, "Boy, that was one delicious leopard! I wonder if there
are any more around here?"


Hearing this, the leopard halts his attack in mid-strike, a look of
terror comes over him and he slinks
away into the trees. "Whew!", says the leopard, "That was close! That
poodle nearly had me!"


Meanwhile, a monkey who had been watching the whole scene from a nearby
tree, figures he can put this
knowledge to good use and trade it for protection from the leopard. So
off he goes, but the poodle sees him
heading after the leopard with great speed, and figures that something
must be up. The monkey soon catches
up with the leopard, spills the beans and strikes a deal for himself
with the leopard.


The leopard is furious at being made a fool of and says, "Here, monkey,
hop on my back so you can watch me
chew that poodle to bits!"



Now, the poodle sees the leopard coming with the monkey on his back and
thinks, "What am I going to do
now?", but instead of running, the dog sits down with his back to his
attackers, pretending he hasn't seen
them yet, and waits until they get just close enough to hear.



"Where's that damn monkey?" the poodle says, "I sent him off an hour ago
to bring me another leopard!"