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what a wonderful parable, thanks for sharing.  The message is a very 
good one.
Laney

Double 8 Ranch wrote:
> There are those people who will 'get it' and those that will not. I just 
> came across the following and thought that it was an appropriate analogy 
> for all users of public land to 'stick together.'  I believe that the 
> BLM and Forest Service work to pit one user group against the other with 
> the ultimate goal of only allowing the 'elite' (and horse people are not 
> among this group) to access the land.
>
>     Mouse Story
>     A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see
>      the farmer and his wife open a package.
>     "What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered -
>      he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.
>     Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the
>     warning: "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in
>     the house!"
>     The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and
>    said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you,
>    but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it."
>    The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a
>    mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"
>    The pig sympathized, but said, "I am so very sorry,
>    Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be
>    assured you are in my prayers."
>    The mouse turned to the cow and said "There is a
>     mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"!
>     The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but
>    it's no skin off my nose."
>    So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and
>    dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.
>     That very night a sound was heard throughout the house
>    -- like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.
>   The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In
>      the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the
>     trap had caught.
>    The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her
>     to the hospital, and she returned home with a fever. Everyone knows
>     you  treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his
>     hatchet  to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.
>    But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and
>    neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them,
>    the farmer butchered the pig.
>   The farmer's wife did not get well; she died. So many
>    people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to
>    provide enough meat for all of them.
>    The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the
>    wall with great sadness.
>
>   So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem
>    and think it doesn't concern you, remember -- when one of us is
>    threatened, we are all at risk.
>
> Lauren
> Double 8 Ranch
> Cody, WY
>
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