The Poor Gopher
© May24, 2000 Stefan Ulrich

The little Gopher family was expecting another addition to the family. They were so excited, since they already had one offspring, and enjoyed her so much they were looking forward to the next one. The day finally arrived and everyone was very happy. However the Father Gopher now had one more mouth to feed and so had to rush around even longer looking for food for his family. Father loved his family and so did not mind doing this but unfortunately the longer he looked for food the less time he had with his family. To fix this problem he figured he might have to move somewhere were there was more food to be had with less looking. He saw a wonderful place but it was across a road, and to get there he might get run over! Instead of risking his life he decided to just continue running around were he was at,  unfortunately, a car ran off the road and right over top of him....

The moral of the story might be: sometimes what seems safe and easy is very dangerous and unhealthy...