The Old Dog

A wealthy old lady decides to go on a photo safari in Africa, taking

her faithful, elderly poodle named Cuddles, along for the company.

One day the old poodle starts chasing butterflies and before long,

Cuddles discovers that he's lost. Wandering about, he notices a leopard

heading rapidly in his direction with the intention of having lunch.


The old poodle thinks, "Oh, oh! I'm in deep doo-doo now!" 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 old poodle exclaims loudly, "Boy, that was one

delicious leopard! I wonder if there are any more around here?"


Hearing this, the young 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 old 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 old 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 young leopard is furious at being made a fool of and says, "Here,

monkey, hop on my back and see what's going to happen to that conniving

canine!


Now, the old 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 just when they get close enough to hear, the old poodle

says...

"Where's that damn monkey? I sent him off an hour ago to bring me

another leopard!



Moral of this story....


Don't mess with the old dogs...age and skill will always overcome youth

and treachery! Bullshit and brilliance only come with age and experience.