Boudreaux decides to go on a photo safari in
Africa, taking his wife's faithful, elderly
poodle named Pierre, along for the company.
One day, the old poodle starts chasing
butterflies and before long, Pierre discovers
that he's lost. Wandering about, he notices a
leopard heading rapidly in his direction with
the intention of having lunch.
The old poodle thinks, "Oh, no! I'm in deep
doo-doo now!" He remembers what Boudreaux
had taught him about "thinking before
speaking." Noticing some bones on the ground
close by, he immediately settles down to chew
on the bones with his 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 poodle sits down with his back
to his attackers, pretending he hasn't seen
them yet, and just when they get close enough
to hear, the old poodle says...
"Where's that damn monkey? I sent him off an
hour ago to bring me another leopard!
