Red Panda: “What’s this? It doesn’t look like bamboo.”
Lulu: “It’s not bamboo. It’s a Christmas cactus.”
Java Bean: (snoring)
Red Panda: “Can I eat it?”
Lulu: “I mean, you can try, it’s not poisonous, but I don’t think you’re going to like it very much.”
Java Bean: (still snoring)
Vermin: “????”
Red Panda: “You’re right, it doesn’t taste like Christmas at all.”
Vermin: “HISSS! Why are you feeding him house plants? If he wants bamboo, take him somewhere where it grows outside!”
Lulu: “Good point, Vermin! There’s a park we go to that has an entire bamboo grove. Do you want to go there?”
Red Panda: “Yes please!”
Java Bean (suddenly wide awake): “Did somebody say we’re going to the park?!”
Shortly thereafter …
Mr. Nibbles: “It was nice of you to make that helpful suggestion, friend Vermin.”
Vermin: “HISSS! I wasn’t being nice! I just don’t want some ginger raccoon hanging around eating my mealworms and climbing on my perches!”
The Oceanside Animals 
Lucy: Hmm, I wonder if a little red panda can eat his way through a whole park of bamboo trees.
Chia: That was pretty smart of you, Vermin. I’ll have to remember that technique.
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Just another Mutual Of Omaha Monday!
H&K&W,
Willow
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The expressed self interest actually sounds quite magnanimous in this case. 😀
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Park?!?! What is the Park? Please show us! Boo Berry Betty
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Panda: Did someone say you know where there’s delicious bamboo? Can I go with you?
Foster: Wait, it could be a trick! They could be trying to lure you and the red panda into the San Diego zoo where you’ll be prisoners and then the penguins and I will have to figure out how to rescue you!
Panda: (Sigh!) There’s always an element of risk!
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What a great way to get rid of house guests. Do you think it works on human brothers?
Keep being awesome! Purrs Marvelous Marv
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Never miss a trip to the park, B. Stay alert… sort of…
Love and licks,
Cupcake
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Vermin is always such a perfect host! BOL!!
xoxo,
Rosy & Sunny
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This could be the start of another great adventure. We can’t wait to see what happens next.
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Red Panda is living dangerously following advice from such as those.
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Maybe you could get more mealworms from Amazon!
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Auch! Eating a cactus… Sweet Java Bean and Lulu, I want to go to the park with you…
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I bet you won’t try cactus again- that would hurt.
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Pebble loves going to the park, too, Java Bean. Our park doesn’t have bamboo though. It does have water reeds and lots of undergrowth – but no bamboo…
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An here wee thott Vermin was beein kind…..ROFM/ROFL!!!
Wee shuuda known bettur Charlee an Chaplin!
Java Bean an Lulu wee hoep you got Red Panda to THE nice Park!
***nose bopss*** BellaDharma an {{hugss}} BellaSita Mum
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