The third installment of my animal stories!

        No Ordinary Cubs

                             Based On a True Story  

                                              By Kyla Taylor

   At first glance, my brother and I would seem like ordinary white tiger cubs. That would be a complete understatement. In fact, I’ve decided to tell you our story just to prove it.

   Of course, I have to start at the very beginning. If I didn’t, none of this story would make sense. No, I am NOT talking about when we were born! I’m going to skip to the part where it gets interesting. And a bit sad, I must say.

   My brother and I started out ordinary. We wrestled each other every day and helped our mother catch dinner. Also, we had friends. Many of them, too. As two siblings, my brother and I did not fight much, but occasionally a fight would break out. Our mother loved us as much as possible, although she was always out doing something. Despite that factor, we fended for ourselves.

   But then disaster struck.

   Hurricane Hannah swept through our home, causing major devastation. It separated us from our friends, and our mother. We haven’t seen any of them since. There is no telling whether they were killed or stranded in the destruction of the storm. It was a horrible loss for my brother and me, but we could not take too long to grieve. We had to fend for ourselves until someone found us.

   Luckily, just as we were tiring out, help came.

   There was an animal rescue center called “T.I.G.E.R.S.” who came looking for us. After they’d looked through the wreckage of hurricane Hannah for days, they finally found us.    

   After the rescue squad brought us back to the shelter, Anjana, a kind-hearted chimp from T.I.G.E.R.S. helped us. She took us in after we lost our mother, becoming our surrogate mother. She acted as our playmate, babysitter, and even helped the zookeepers feed us!

   Now, all three of us are doing just fine. Anjana still takes care of us, and she does her work well. I’m not kidding. She has actually done this before! She’s helped leopard and lion cubs on several occasions. Now that’s something you don’t see every day! I assure you, I am NOT making up this story!! [If   you   still   don’t   believe   me,   comment on this post. I have pictures to prove it!]

  

   AUTHOR’S NOTE: Thank you for reading this story. I hope you enjoyed it very much, because I know I did! It is one of my favorite stories, and not because I wrote it in my own words. It teaches you that, no matter what culture, religion, or color you are, you can always be friends. You could even be different species or animals! I mean, look at what happened with the two white tiger cubs and Anjana!! Overall, it was a very heart-warming story about three animals that put aside their differences to help one another. If everyone in the world could do that, our lives would be perfect! But I guess that just wasn’t the way it was meant to be.