Book SummaryAlthough just about all of us think that we know the story of the three little pigs, in this comical picture book, A. Wolf clears up some misunderstandings. According to A. Wolf, we simply have not heard his side of the story — until now.While we may believe that the wolf who visited the three little pigs huffed and puffed to blow the pigs' houses down, it turns out that he simply had a bad cold and had a powerful sneeze. Who could blame him for eating the pigs that died when their houses fell as a result of his sneezing?Furthermore, the wolf was only visiting the pigs in the first place to borrow a cup of sugar to make a cake for his grandmother's birthday. The pigs wouldn't even give him any sugar!When the third pig insulted his grandmother, A. Wolf 'got a little crazy.'

Pigs VS Wolves LITE - Be careful! You are being watched! A summer day, you got lost in the desert, thirsty, tired and a little bit funky.

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This ultimately leads to the attainment of miraculous powers (siddhis) which are manifested in the yantras, mantras, kriyas and pujas associated with these Goddess energies. Journey below the earth elevate.

The police found him trying to break down the pig's door, and news reporters wrote the story that we have come to know. Before Reading the Book A Traditional Tale?Before reading The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs, ask for volunteers to tell the traditional story of the three little pigs. Let the volunteers take turns telling parts of the story. Then read The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs together with your class. Ask students to fold a piece of paper in half. On one side of the paper, they should make a list of what parts of this story are different from the traditional story.

On the other side of the paper, they should make a list of what parts of the story are the same. Classroom Activities Point of ViewIn this retelling of the three little pigs, the author changes the point of view of the story. Usually readers sympathize with the pigs. Here, readers hear the wolf's side of the story. Ask students to write about whether or not they are convinced by the wolf's version of the story. Does he seem trustworthy?

Why or why not? A Letter to A. WolfAsk children to write a letter to A. Wolf in jail. Have them think about what more they would like to know about this wolf. What questions would they like to ask him about what happened to the pigs?

Read All About It!Although The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs is funny, it does make the point that two different newspapers might cover the same story differently depending on who their readers are and on what those readers believe.For example, A. Wolf's story appears in The Daily Wolf. The other news reports (that tell the story of the big and bad wolf) appear in The Daily Pig. The wolf paper and the pig paper seem to print the stories so that their own kind come out looking good.Ask students to write about the story of the three little pigs as if they had watched nearby when the wolf visited each of the pigs.

Their stories can appear in a newspaper called The Daily Human. Have students think about how would the story change if the police were human. Would it become a story about human beings instead of pigs? (For example, would the story be headlined 'Police Save Pig?'

) Act It Out!Choose two groups of four students to act out the different versions of the Three Little Pigs. Ask the first group to act out the story as it's usually told-they may want to reread one of the versions of the traditional story before they begin.

Have them write out what they will say during each of the three scenes-when the wolf visits the pig in the straw house, when the wolf visits the pig in the stick house, and when the wolf visits the pig in the brick house. Then, ask the second group to act out The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs Have the rest of the children in the class write about what they liked in each performance, and how the performances were different. More Fairy Tale FunAsk children to think about other fairy tales that might change if they were told from a different point of view. For example, how would The Daily Wolf cover the story of Little Red Riding Hood? How would Cinderella's stepsisters tell her famous story? How would Snow White's stepmother explain what happened to her? Have children write their own versions of famous fairy tales with a twist.

It is very common to hear people say things like “You can take the animal out of the wild but you can’t take the wild out of the animal,” or an even more ridiculous statement: “All wild animals can be dangerous.” You might have even heard some people state that wild animals are dangerous, period. Compared to what, exactly?I’ll let you in on a surprising secret. So-called wild animals are not all dangerous in captivity, and some so-called domesticated animals are. This is an indisputable fact. If you don’t believe this, I can easily prove it. What is the definition of a wild animal?A wild animal is an animal that lives in the wild, free from human influence. Here are three wild animals that are completely harmless to humans:.

the green frog ( Lithobates clamitans). the house sparrow ( Passer domesticus). the eastern cottontail rabbit ( Sylvilagus floridanus).

So what’s up with these statements exclaiming that wild animals are dangerous?Now hold on a second, when we said 'wild animal' we meant animals like tigers, sharks, and crocodiles, not little frogs!Well, gee how was I supposed to know that? Why do groups like the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) use the words 'wild animal' and 'large, dangerous, wild animal' interchangeably?According to: 'Wild animals can attack and spread disease, and the average pet owner cannot provide the care they need in captivity.' However, animal rights organizations are not worried about being accurate with their statements because they are mostly against the ownership of animals; therefore, the numerous exceptions are not really important to them.

I don’t believe the term 'wild animal' should be used to describe human-habituated, tame animals because their behavior is vastly different from animals that are parent-raised without humans.Wild animals are animals that were born and raised in natural conditions. Animals living with and raised by humans that are not domesticated should simply be referred to as non-domesticated animals.

'Tame, wild animal' is also acceptable.Taming refers to a normally wild-natured animal that has been socialized with humans so that it is tolerant and relatively docile in the presence of humans. Yet, since some domesticated animals are not tame when raised in the wild, all domesticated animals cannot technically be considered tame as well.

Domesticated animals can't survive in the wild.Utterly untrue. In fact, domesticated animals are some of the best survivors—reproducing invasively in environments that are not their own (feral cats, horses, swine) while many 'wild animals' fail at doing so. That is why we do not release captive animals without extensive rehabilitation. In many cases, feral, domesticated animals have caused various wild animals to become extirpated. Domesticated animals are tame or good-natured.Bulls or intact cattle ( Bos taurus) are known to be dangerous and aggressive.

Because just like many “wild” animals, they have instincts and raging hormones. Domesticated mink are also extremely dangerous for their size. Domesticated animals recognize humans as part of their social structure.Not only is this common in any social mammal or bird as long as it has been hand-raised, but even some solitary animals like bobcats and tigers will bond with their owner to the same level as any domesticated cat. Alternatively, cats that are not hand-raised do not accept human ownership, just as a wild animal doesn’t. If it is not in the nature of the animal to be part of a hierarchy, like fancy mice or goldfish, for instance, this behavior will not spring up due to domestication.

Domestication takes thousands of years.The produced significantly tamer silver foxes in only 50 years. This definition and only this definition fits every so-called domesticated animal.

Notice that this definition does not include any measure of tameness, welfare in captivity, house-living, or any measure of generations needed to produce the result. If the genetic change and better suitability for human use are present, the animal can be considered domesticated. It needn’t be as physically and psychologically unique from its starting point as a wolf and a Shih Tzu.Domesticated animals may have certain traits in common such as breeding well in captivity, having easy-to-meet dietary needs, and reaching maturity quickly, but this is not unique to them. These animals are not native to any location because their genes are human-selected vs. Naturally selected. Hybridization can also result in this case. Some animals, like ( Mesocricetus auratus) are extensively bred in captivity but are not genetically different beyond some insignificant alterations due to the; therefore, they are technically not domesticated.

This means that when someone says “wild animals are dangerous to keep as pets,” they are also talking about hamsters.Both golden hamsters and tigers are non-domesticated animals that are frequently bred in captivity. Other animals thought to be domesticated but probably aren't include cockatiels, ball pythons, budgies, gerbils, and dwarf hamsters. Some cat owners might tell you that cats are 'less domesticated' than dogs due to their independent nature. This is completely untrue.

As I’ve discussed above, the concept of 'more or less domesticated' is invalid.Cats are different from dogs. Domestication has nothing to do with dog-like behavior (although a few feline breeds are genetically more tame and passive). The domesticated cat is genetically different from its original ancestor and is more suitable for the role humans have bred it for. That’s all it takes!

As outlined before, some domesticated animals can be a threat to human safety or even considered dangerous—but as a general rule, many of the animals that we consider non-dangerous in comparison to so-called wild animals have all descended from wild animals that are not that dangerous, relatively speaking.To clarify, a tiger is considered a dangerous wild animal and a domesticated cat is not. Are tigers more dangerous because they aren’t domesticated? Tigers are dangerous because they are over 800 pounds of pure, carnivorous muscle, having evolved to take down prey much larger than itself.

Fully grown tigers are larger and stronger than the largest, strongest dog.Domesticated cats and their ancestors (the African wild cat) could not kill a human if they tried (cats can and have ). To reiterate, domesticated cats were never 'dangerous' to begin with. Let’s look at the evolutionary history of some other popular domesticated animals. The domesticated dog is the quintessential model for domestication for most people.

No other species exhibits as much behavioral, psychological, and morphological variation. This might be the reason people confuse domestication as a process that involves aiming to achieve what has been done with dogs. But dogs are unique, and they are the only large carnivore that has been domesticated.Dogs have descended from an extinct wolf-like canid that shares a common ancestor with the extant grey wolf. Through the mechanism of neoteny, which means the retention of juvenile traits that were induced through many generations of selective breeding, dogs have adopted a very strong psychological connection to humans.How this happened is very controversial, but we can deduce that the dog’s (likely more than one) wolf-like ancestors were a population of animals with a high tolerance toward human presence, and perhaps, unlike some populations of wolves such as those that terrorized France in earlier centuries, were a lot less dangerous.

Wolves as Animal AmbassadorsEven the grey wolves of today are touted as mostly harmless toward humans in the wild, and only two reported deaths from wild wolves have occurred in North America in the last 100 years. Unlike big cats, wolves are common 'ambassador animals' that respectable zoos and conservation societies trust on a leash around the public ( pose a similar or smaller risk to humans, but they can't be domesticated because they breed poorly in captivity).Of course, just like regular dogs, wolves have the potential to attack due to various factors. Some domesticated dogs are more aggressive than wolves because we have channeled that territorial instinct into our desired result. Dogs are a mixed bag of different wild instincts re-shaped and re-directed for the purpose of domestication. Domesticated dogs can become more dangerous if they are unsocialized and form coalitions due to the pack instinct, which wolves, of course, are predisposed toward. Domestic cattle, whose ancestors are extinct wild cattle ( Bos primigenius), cannot be easily bred to be hornless, so in order to achieve a less dangerous animal, the horns are removed early in the animal’s life. Castration is also commonly practiced in livestock animals—a procedure that may lower aggression.During the rutting season, domesticated male camels can be somewhat to handle if they aren’t castrated.

(Similarly, have shown that many dog bite incidences were committed by non-neutered dogs.) So what good is 'domestication' for human safety if animals must be mutilated before they can be considered non-dangerous? Another giant factor I’ve discussed here is the absurdity of not taking into account size when it comes to the danger an animal may present.

Regardless of disposition, large animals can all be fatal to humans. Every large domesticated animal (horse, cow, camel, large dog) has caused human fatalities.Therefore, when someone brings up that a large non-domesticated animal (such as killer whales, whose captivity has suffered immense criticism) has once killed someone, that is not an argument that they are more or less dangerous than a domesticated animal.

There is an inherent risk with all animals that are large and strong. The larger and stronger the animal, the bigger the risk. As I tirelessly bring up, animals are not merely robots that are programmed to behave one way. Non-domesticated animals that are hand-raised and socialized by humans are likely to be drastically different from their wild counterparts. This is why it is silly to compare house cats to animals that exist in the wild. A proper comparison of the traits of domesticated cats and their wild counterparts would have to take into account their environment.

Therefore, feral cats should be compared to African wild cats and feral dogs with wolves. We will then see that the behavior and psychologies of these species will form more parallels.Having ample food and being away from the pressures of nature also change animals. Some animals likely retain juvenile traits into adulthood (not genetically) when they are not forced out of the nest/den to hunt for themselves in natural conditions. This can lead to increased sociability, play behavior, and reduced prey drive. No wonder people visit zoos and often exclaim that wolves and tigers act 'just like my dog/cat!'

Excellent article! I'm Native American and unfortunately live in a city in Connecticut. I have a very 'green' yard with many tree's, shrubs and other growth so it's sort of an 'oasis' for many animals. My neighbors all dislike me intensely because they're 'in love' with their lawns, hate tree's, bushes & shrubs or wild flowers which thrive in my yard! Especially in the winter.

I put food out for all the animals who do not 'hibernate' and am re-payed by higher levels of 'trust' that I consider a great honor & privilege! Unfortunately, we live in an era where an entire generation ( or two ) of children no longer are taught, know or care about wildlife ( at least in these parts ) as they're never outdoors but on their 'dumb phones' indoors- even on summer vacation from school. A couple summers ago, a woman who walks her dog past my home said to me, 'Do you know you have a baby fox living in your large shed??'

I told her 'No. But it must be there for a reason like maybe got separated from it's mother, or to evade someone's dog' and she then said, 'But they have RABIES'. Which I then explained to her (not that it made a dent in her) that according to 'authorities'. EVERY animal in the wild had 'rabies' and it's just NOT true'. She hasn't spoken to me since! Later that day, I did see a young fox (not a baby) poke it's head out from a space between the doors & stare at me, then quickly retreat. It was gone by the next day, and I felt glad it had taken up very temporary residence in my 'safe' shed where it might of run- from one of the neighbors dogs.

I have ferrets which I have rescued/adopted for many, many years. Having them is like one of the closest things to being up close & personal with their wild cousins ( mink, ermine, skunks etc, etc ) and I wouldn't trade them for most human companionship as like all animals, they aren't 'evil' & do no 'evil' in thought, word or deed like many conniving-self centered people. Ferrets ( especially younger ones ) are LIGHTENING FAST and to watch mine all run through the entire house ( upstairs & down ) NOT caged as I have thoroughly 'ferret-proofed' all potential 'safety issues'.

Helps these intelligent, affectionate animals live much longer as they need to exercise all the muscles in their bodies. Again, excellent- well written article which I greatly enjoyed!. Domestic cats put about 10k people in the hospital a year with about 25% resulting in deaths, with out access to modern medicine that num would be ridiculously higher.

The biggest misnomers used with any animal regardless of origin is harmless and tame. There are no such thing as tame or harmless animals. Even a pet mouse can place a person in the hospital from a bite. Animals can be amazingly tolerant and even friendly but never loose the instinct to defend themselves and therefore capable of harm. Otherwise the article has some good points.

I had the privilege of petting a tiger once. The man had it in a huge cage, although not nearly large enough in my estimation. When the tiger sort of growled low at me, I withdrew my hand from the fence, but the man said he was just purring, which the tiger proved when he came up to the fence wanting more petting.

I would have crawled in with him but because of liability issues, his owner wouldn't let me. Still, it was a thrill. He weighed 650 pounds and his paws were as big as saucers. What astonished me the most was that he was as soft as a house cat.

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