The Early Bird Runs Away from the Worm
Ha ha ha…I’m terrified of rats and mice and centipedes….not of snakes, scorpions and most other such forms of life…read here about how the early bird ran away from the worm…thank you Jo Robinson…I agree with you that we humans unkindly demonize beings that have as much right – if not more – to this planet as we do. What an arrogant lot we can be!
Originally posted on Jo Robinson:
Button found a worm in the seed box, and brought it over to show me before eating it. He landed on my hand with it wriggling around in his beak. I’m an absolutely pathetic wimp when it comes to worms, so I screamed and ran away. Of course he dropped it and did the birdie equivalent of screaming and running away too. It wiggled off the side of the desk and now I know it’s around here somewhere, so I can’t stop peering at the floor, and I think my poor little yellow guy will always have a worm phobia too now.
I know extreme animal phobias can lead to some pretty silly behaviour, and also some nasty behaviour if the phobic person acts out and some poor critter ends up dead just because they give someone the willies, but worms and bats reduce me to puddles of terror. We…
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