Carpe Shar-Pei (Seize the Wrinkled Dog)

Ennie Meanie Minie Moe

Ennie Meanie Minie and Moe are budgies or parakeets. Budgerigars, or budgies, are small parrots sporting a long tapered tail. A budgie is always a parakeet but a parakeet isn't always a budgie. Their small bodies are packed with a huge personality. Budgies are very playful and mischievous and in most cases, easily tamed.

These budgies are blue, yellow, white, and green. They probably worked in a discount store before we got them because they tell us how "cheap" everything is. They hate badminton, even though they haven't even played a game, maybe their parents told them how rough a sport it is. Native Australian budgies are always green, there are many "Moe" of them than any other color.

Ennie, Meanie, Minie, and Moe are now with an older gentleman who needed companionship after a long stay in the hospital and convalescent center. He was returning home to a quiet house. At last check, the budgies and the gentleman were getting along great. Best wishes to all.

Ennie, Meanie, Minie, Moe
Catch a tiger by the toe
If he hollers, let him go
Ennie, Meanie, Minie, Moe
My mother told me to pick this one!

Ennie Meany Miney Moe
Catch a tiger by his toe
If he hollers make him pay
50 dollars every day
My momma told me to pick one
and this is it!



A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Jack London

Credits:
Paper and canvas prints of "Growing Up Chinese Shar-Pei" by Barbara Keith are available online.

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