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| Photo by: Chandra Brown Cookie |
There lived a gerbil who loved to eat. Her name suited her well for her master called her Cookie. Cookie nibbled on grains and seeds, timothy hay, fruits, nuts, and sometimes for a healthy treat, spinach. One fine day when the sun was shining and the breeze rustled the treetops a new discovery awaited the active gerbil. Her master placed a new item in her food bowl; it was a sight to see. It layed in the food bowl on its side as a sunbeam glistened through the window onto its surface. Cookie wondered, "What could this delight be?" She carefully tiptoed over to the oval shaped comestible and touched it ever so slightly with her front paw. She stared and glared intently at the colorful markings and sniffed ever so deeply with her nose close to touching the shell. Then, she lifted the treasure from its spot and placed her front tooth on the hard surface giving a little pressure on the shell causing it to crack open like an egg freshly opened by a pecking chick on Easter Sunday. For a split second Cookie felt a rush of panic at the thought she destroyed the treasure and as she began to let the feel of sorrow enter her heart she saw a tiny, smooth pearl like core inside the shell. With great excitement her little paw tore off the shell like a kid opening presents on Christmas morning revealing the glorious, most scrumptious, delightful seed in all the rodent kingdom; the sunflower seed.
As Cookies taste buds exploded with the flavor too good to compare to chocolate, her eyes were involuntarily scanning the food bowl for another packaged treasure. Her impulsive desire caused her to dive headfirst into her bowl in search for more. She resurfaced with little bird seeds stuck on her cheeks looking at her master with questioning eyes just as her master's hand entered the cage with bountiful supply of more tantalizing treats to wet her appetite. She greedily tore into the new supply like a kid picking M&M's from the mountain trail mix bag. She ravenously stuffed her mouth as if she were kin to a pig. In her gluttonous delectation, her slender body began to grow as she ate and consumed and devoured to overflowing capacity; her body mirrored the action with rapid reaction. The once slender gerbil now resembled Henry the VIII, King of various voracious appetites. Her cravings called out for more as she sat idly in the corner of her cage filling in her corpulent crevices.
What was needed was an intervention!
Her master picked her up from her comfy corner and examined her in jaw-dropping awe, wondering how a gerbil could expand her size in such little time. Her master shook her finger in a motherly fashion at Cookie as the inevitable words rolled out of her mouth, "Cookie, you're going on a diet."
The End
Collaborated together with: Cookie, Sharp Ears and Red
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