[ SHOWGSD-L ] a mouse in the house

From: Diane Wright <Diwri@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: ShowGSD L <Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:02:47 -0400
This was from one of my sheep lists. The discussion that prompted this 
post was about NAIS, a goverment proposal that will require ID'ing of 
sheep (& other livestock, including fowl!) with RFID (radio freqency) tags.

Mouse Story

A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his 
wife open a package.

"What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered  he was devastated 
to discover it was a mousetrap.

Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning. "There is 
a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse, 
I can tell this is a grave concern to you but it is of no consequence to 
me. I cannot be bothered by it."

The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the 
house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The pig sympathized, but said, "I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there 
is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers."

The mouse turned to the cow and said, "There is a mousetrap in the 
house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off 
my nose."

So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the 
farmer's mousetrap  alone.

That very night a sound was heard throughout the house  like the sound 
of a mousetrap catching its prey.

The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she 
did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The 
snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital and 
she returned home with a fever. Everyone knows you treat a fever with 
fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for 
the soup's main ingredient.

But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit 
with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.

The farmer's wife did not get well; she died. So many people came for 
her funeral that the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough 
meat for all of them.

The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.

So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it 
doesn't concern you, remember  when one of us is threatened, we are all 
at risk.

We are all involved in this journey called Life. We must keep an eye out 
for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.

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Do you still believe that PETA and other animal rights groups' 
activities won't affect you? There is a mousetrap in the house!



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