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# tales for dreamers: unintended consequences of dietary preferences
- URL: https://thedreampedlar.com/tales-for-dreamers-unintended-consequences-of-dietary-preferences/
- Published: 2021-05-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-12-18T14:02:28.000Z
- Description: And you thought you knew why you shouldn't be feeding wildlife?
- Author: Anitha Krishnan
- Tags: tales for dreamers

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tales for dreamers: unintended consequences of dietary preferences

*Psst!*

— Oh, hello there!?

*Where are you off to?*

— To the lake at the end of this path.

*Come with me instead.*

— Where?

*Up (points a paw towards the sky).*

— No way can I climb that.

*Won’t you even try? I’ll teach you.*

— I don’t have fancy ankles like you do, the kind that twist all the way and help you scamper up and down trees and walls and fences.

*(Pouts a little, then sighs.)*

— (feels sorry for the squirrel) We could play right here.

*No. For the game I had in mind, we need to be way up there, on those high branches.*

— (knits brows and frowns with worry) What game did you have in mind?

*The one in which we throw last year’s nuts on all the people who walk down this path.*

— What?! That’s crazy.

*(Shrugs) It’s just a game. And no one will get hurt. And we’ll have all the laughs.*

— (walking away, hurriedly) You’re nuts.

*(Shouts to the retreating figure) Of course. What’s that thing you humans say?*

— (stops and turns around) What?

*We are what we eat.*