Where the Wild Things Go...
Peter and Paula's story
There's a age-old saying among denizens of the wild that when The-Ape-That-Walks-On-Two-Legs shows up, “There goes the neighborhood.”
From the Wild Things point of view, humans bring lots of noise, strange smells of meat cooking (check quickly furry folks, are we missing any of our companions?) and a general sense that peace-and-quiet are now on the back burner. People are so rambunctious and disruptive.
But, people come and people go. Who knows why that is so?
In the aftermath of the chaos that prevails in human habitations, there is an almost eerie silence.
For a few days or even weeks you can still feel the spirit of those restless beings called humans all around their abandoned abodes.
But, little-by-little wind and rain and snow and time erode the human spirit that clings to human dwellings.
Some creatures have an uneasy coexistence with upright walking apes: like mice!
The mice have always enjoyed the shelter provided by the human compulsion to stay warm and dry.
But when people finally go away, my oh my how the mice do play!
Once the humans “move on” the house mice let loose with a collective “Hurrah” and the field mice take notice and “move in.”
When those funky smelling, noisy humans abandon their dwellings the structures become very interesting as potential shelter for some of the furry folk who stayed as far away as possible when people lived there.
Like Peter and Paula Polar Bear.
Climate change is making things tough on Peter and Paula so they are on the move.
When they first came over to check out the empty dwelling on the edge of the ice field they were very cautious.
But, after only a few minutes, as the wind whistled through the structure, it became obvious to both of them that this might be a nice place live.
So they moved in.
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