A wealthy old lady decides to go on a photo safari in Africa, taking her

faithful, elderly poodle named Cuddles, along for the company.

One day the old poodle starts chasing butterflies and before long, Cuddles

discovers that he's lost. Wandering about, he notices a leopard heading

rapidly in his direction with the intention of having lunch.

The old poodle thinks, 'Oh, oh! I'm in deep doo-doo now!' Noticing some

bones on the ground close by, he immediately settles down to chew on the

bones with his back to the approaching cat. Just as the leopard is about to

leap the old poodle exclaims loudly, 'Boy, that was one delicious leopard! I

wonder if there are any more around here?'

Hearing this, the young leopard halts his attack in mid-strike, a look of

terror comes over him and he slinks away into the trees. 'Whew!', says the

leopard, 'That was close! That old poodle nearly had me!'

Meanwhile, a monkey who had been watching the whole scene from a nearby

tree, figures he can put this knowledge to good use and trade it for

protection from the leopard. So off he goes, but the old poodle sees him

heading after the leopard with great speed, and figures that something must

be up.

The monkey soon catches up with the leopard, spills the beans and strikes a

deal for himself with the leopard.

The young leopard is furious at being made a fool of and says, 'Here,

monkey, hop on my back and see what's going to happen to that conniving

canine!

Now, the old poodle sees the leopard coming with the monkey on his back and

thinks, 'What am I going to do now?', but instead of running, the dog sits

down with his back to his attackers, pretending he hasn't seen them yet, and

just when they get close enough to hear, the old poodle says...

'Where's that d @#n monkey? I sent him off an hour ago to bring me another

leopard!

Moral of this story....

Don't mess with old f @rts...age and skill will always overcome youth and

treachery! Bullsh # t and brilliance only come with age and experience.