The Zoo Animals' Faraway Dream (Special Edition): A Story to Save Caged Animals
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If you're into stories about zoo animals, wildlife, endangered species, nature conservation and animal welfare, you'll love both the story and facts in this animal rights fiction novel.
This special edition (second edition) of The Zoo Animals’ Faraway Dream includes a bonus
Kathryn Rose Newey
Kathryn Rose Newey writes interactive novels with a conscience. Her books tell stories from the point of view of animals and others experiencing life on planet Earth, looking from the outside in at this sometimes tumultuous world run by human beings. Young adults, teens and children who have curious minds and think it's about time we all did something to save planet Earth will love her Nature Conservation Fiction, Animal Rights Fiction and Science Fiction novels. Her novels also offer facts and information, so readers can find out more and be inspired to take positive action. Plus there are educational worksheets linked to the novels, available from her website. When she's not writing, she's probably in her unruly garden (or wishes she was) with her pet dog, Jessie the Jack Russell, who's so smart she has her own website. Visit her author website: https://KathrynRoseNewey.com Like her Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/KathrynRoseNeweyAuthor
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The Zoo Animals' Faraway Dream (Special Edition) - Kathryn Rose Newey
Also by Kathryn Rose Newey
Animals in the Forest:
The Day Terrible Things Came
(A story to save the Earth)
Ilnoblet Elmer and the Alien Water Thieves
Visit the author’s website at KathrynRoseNewey.com
Dedication
To all animals on Earth who are imprisoned in cages, enclosures, laboratories, stalls, pens, crates, pools and tanks. May humans see, one day set you free, and let you be. Love and strength.
Acknowledgements
To those human beings who feel the suffering of caged animals, who try to ease it or work for animals’ freedom, and who educate other humans about this shameful and cruel issue ~ your actions are noticed, appreciated and inspiring. Thank you.
To those family members and friends who laboriously and tirelessly read through each new draft of my manuscripts and make useful comments each time ~ you write with me. Thank you.
The Zoo Animals’
Faraway Dream
Special Edition with Bonus Chapter
A Story to Save Caged Animals
Kathryn Rose Newey
The Zoo Animals’ Faraway Dream
Special Edition [Edition 2.1] with Bonus Chapter.
ISBN-13: 978-1-78926-498-2 (paperback, 2nd edition)
ISBN-13: 978-1-78926-499-9 (eBook, 2nd edition)
Copyright © 2019 by Kathryn Rose Newey
All rights reserved.
No parts of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner.
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the copyright holder’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Under no circumstances may any part of this book be photocopied for resale.
This is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and situations within its pages and places or persons, living or dead, is unintentional and coincidental.
Cover Photograph: Claudia Paulussen/Shutterstock.com
Publisher Imprint: KathrynRoseNewey.com / Independent Publishing Network
CONTENTS
Also by Kathryn Rose Newey
Dedication
Acknowledgements
PART ONE ~ A STORY WITH TWO ENDINGS
1 – The Little Zoo
2 – A Bit Rusty
3 – Being Natural
4 – Deliriously Happy
5 – A Visitor
6 – Sweet Redemption
7 – The Faraway Dream
8 – The Faraway Nightmare
9 – A Terrible Thing
10 – Being Free
11 –A True Leader
12 – Separation Anxiety
13 – Fat in the Fire
14 – Pig in a Poke
15 – Calm Before the Storm
16 – A Moment of Truth
17 – Floods of Tears
18 – Still Waters Run Deep (Ending One)
18 – Still Waters Run Deep (Ending Two)
PART TWO ~ THE TRUTH
19 – About Caged Animals
Facts about caged and confined animals
20 – About Zoos
History of zoos
If zoos aren’t good, why do we have them?
Zoos: the whole truth
Shouldn’t we let all caged animals go free?
21 – How Can You Help?
22 – More Things to Know
About the Author
PART ONE ~ A STORY WITH TWO ENDINGS
1 – The Little Zoo
It was sunny, for once, in the little zoo. The animal inhabitants woke to a few rays of sunshine cautiously trickling into their cages, creeping over their food bowls, playing hide and seek between their cage bars, and reaching warming fingers onto their cold fur or feathers.
Or at least the lucky ones did: those animals whose cages faced the morning sunshine.
The rest, whose cages faced in other directions, shivered against their concrete floors and sandy pits, and strained against their bars or walls, in the hope that a lone ray of sunshine might take pity on them and warm them, even if only temporarily.
But the sunshine didn’t last long. The clouds, never happy to let the sun simply shine and warm up the animals’ hearts and bones, bustled and jostled across the sky, and soon it was grey and dull, and the sky seemed to close in and press down on the imprisoned souls again.
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But those few moments of warmth and light were enough to cheer up Shiro the mongoose.
‘It’s definitely going to be a good day today’, she thought, watching the sun rays reach warily across her enclosure. Even as they slithered away, and the domineering clouds took over, she was determined that it wouldn’t ruin anything.
Shiro, perhaps due to some misguided maternal instincts, felt it was her duty to be positive and forceful in this little zoo; the other animals needed her guidance! Sometimes she had to insist they be happy, or at least try to be.
Every morning, in her busy-body way, she rounded up all the other mongooses – she clapped her paws quickly to catch the attention of the little ones playing, and called sharply to the sleepy adults lurking in their holes – then marched them all up to the food bowls at the front of the mongoose enclosure, where they waited for the human workers to give them hastily-prepared and measly portions of food.
Serving breakfast was always one of the first activities undertaken by the human workers – those strange, large and noisy creatures who appeared to roam freely outside the cages, who brought the animals food and water, and who occasionally cleaned out the cages.
The mongoose enclosure was quite spacious, compared to some other animal enclosures. It had concrete walls which followed a roughly oval shape, with a loose pile of rocks and sand in the middle. The pile was now slightly sunken and fallen down, but was nevertheless just far away enough from the tops of the walls in every direction, so that no mongoose, perhaps intent on escape, might succeed in its endeavours.
Shiro, one of the mongooses who had been there the longest, could still remember a time when Mungo, an older and rather grumpy mongoose, had decided one day that he was leaving. Simply leaving. He didn’t say where to.
As you may know, mongooses do possess the skills of digging. But the human designers of their enclosure must have known this, and had installed wire and concrete edges to the walls deep enough into the ground, just that bit too far for the mongooses to dig under and escape to freedom. Some of the mongooses had tried, of course, but to no avail. So Mungo had decided the only way out was over the tops of the mongoose enclosure walls.
No amount of arguing or pleading with him could sway his plan. Shiro, as was her way, tried to assert her authority and forbade him to do so. She was worried that his bid for freedom might catch on with the other mongooses, or perhaps even some of the other zoo animals, and that simply wouldn’t do. After all, the zoo was a happy place and needed to remain that way, with as little disorder as was animally possible.
Besides, none of the mongooses knew what lay beyond the zoo. They didn’t even know the full extent of the little zoo itself. They had tried to argue with Mungo that if he were to go, no humans would bring him food, and then how would he eat? Also, they couldn’t be completely sure, but when they had been able to look out, from the top of the rocky pile in their enclosure, none of the mongooses had seen any mongoose burrows of hollows or