Man's New Best Friends?

Man's New Best Friends?

Stories of A Penguin & A Squirrel

 This penguin swims 5,000 miles each year to visit the man who saved his life

There is a Brazilian law that states wild animals cannot be kept as pets.  That does not stop the penguin Dundim from visiting his dear old friend, and human, Joao, every year, however.
Joao Periera de Souza is a 71-year-old part-time fisherman who saved Dindim's life 5 years ago.  He found Dindim covered in oil and fighting for his life, so he nursed him back to health and, after some coercion, set him free.  Little did he know, Dindim would return to visit each year.

“I love the penguin like it’s my own child and I believe the penguin loves me,” Joao told Globo TV.

 “No one else is allowed to touch him. He pecks them if they do. He lays on my lap, lets me give him showers, allows me to feed him sardines and to pick him up.” 

“Everyone said he wouldn’t return but he has been coming back to visit me for the past four years”

Dindim's journey to visit Joao is nearly 5,000 miles.



Biologist Professor Krajewski was amazed by this story, stating, “I have never seen anything like this before. I think the penguin believes Joao is part of his family and probably a penguin as well.”

A Man Found A Squirrel Dying Underneath A Tree In Poland. Now, They’re Inseparable

Normally, squirrels are very skittish creatures that avoid humans at all costs. Even city squirrels that are used to people walking all around them don’t like to get too close, as far as urban standards go!
But that’s all because they’ve been conditioned to look out for predators in their natural environment. They have to keep on their teeny, tiny toes at all times. There’s no point in risking getting too close to such a big, intimidating creature as human beings.
But, like a lot of animals, if they grow up in a different environment, they’ll learn a different way of life. Think of how a pup that grows up around mean people will behave with bits of aggression and fear. Then, once it’s shown what it’s like to be loved and cared for, the dog’s true instinct will shine through.
That’s just one example of an animal’s environment affecting behavior.
When one little squirrel was found at the base of a tree, on the verge of death, a kindhearted man took him into his home. This little squirrel learned that humans could be very gentle creatures, too, especially this one man in particular. This orphaned squirrel never learned to be afraid of people.
Since this squirrel didn’t stand a chance against nature, he’s so lucky that this man picked him up and nursed him back to health. While he’s no average squirrel, he lives an extremely safe and happy life.
You’ve got to see this little guy and his human together… it’s too sweet!

“If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.”
― St Francis of Assisi

Related:
http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Francis/stories.asp

Great Speeches: St. Francis of Assisi's Sermon to the Birds 

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  “Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved, as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”
― St Francis of Assisi