A
wealthy old lady decides to go on a photo safari in Africa,
taking
with her faithful aged poodle named
Cuddles, along for the company.
One
day the poodle starts chasing butterflies and before long,
Cuddles
discovers that she's lost. Wandering about, she notices a
leopard
heading rapidly in her 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, she immediately settles down to chew on the
bones with her 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 her back to her attackers, pretending she
hasn't
seen them yet, and just when they get close enough to hear, the
old
poodle says: "Where's that monkey? I sent him off an hour ago to bring me
another leopard!"