Old Poodle

"Working Dog"

A blind man is walking down the street with his seeing-eye
dog. They come to a busy intersection and the dog ignores
the high volume of traffic zooming by on the street, leading
the blind man right out into the thick of traffic. The screech
of tires and horns can be heard blaring, as panicked
drivers try to desperately avoid running the pair down.

The blind man and the dog finally reach the safety of the
sidewalk on the other side of the street. Then, the blind
man takes a cookie out of his coat pocket and offers it to the dog.

A passerby who had observed the near fatal incident
says to the blind man in amazement, "Why on earth
are you rewarding your dog with a cookie? He nearly got you killed!"

The blind man turns partially in the passerby's
direction and replies, "I'm trying to find out where
the mutt's head is, so I can kick his butt!"

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"Old Poodle"

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

One day the 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!"
Received on Tue Sep 4 07:41:07 2007