{"id":3393,"date":"2010-01-18T13:44:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T20:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=3393"},"modified":"2010-01-18T13:47:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T20:47:25","slug":"folktale-from-haiti-why-cats-and-dogs-never-get-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2010\/01\/18\/folktale-from-haiti-why-cats-and-dogs-never-get-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Folktale from Haiti: Why Cats and Dogs Never Get Along"},"content":{"rendered":"

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'Children Playing' by Montas Antoine (Port-au-Prince, Haiti) 1960<\/p><\/div>\n

One day Mr. Cat and Mr. Dog were in a discussion about going to God to ask him a favor. Mr. Cat says he was going to God to ask him \u201ccan dead people don\u2019t come back to life,\u201d and Mr. Dog says he was going to ask God \u201ccan dead people come back to life.\u201d<\/p>\n

So they decided to race each other to see who\u2019s going to get to God first. Mr. Cat was so clever; he puts a bone in every corner that he knows Mr. Dog was going to turn on so he can slow him down. Mr. Dog thought of something smart too but he was not clever enough to trick Mr. Cat, so Mr. Dog puts a bowl of milk in every corner that he knows Mr. Cat was going to turn on so he can slow down.<\/p>\n

While Mr. Cat was running he saw the milks but he didn\u2019t pay any attention to them because he knows what Mr. Dog was trying to do. And Mr. Dog was so stupid and greedy, he stopped in every corner to enjoy the bones that Mr. Cat prepared for him but he didn\u2019t know if it was a trick to slow him down.<\/p>\n

So then, Mr. Cat reaches God first, when Mr. Cat gets to God he started talking to him and said, \u201cGod I don\u2019t want you to bring dead people back to life,\u201d and God said, \u201cOkay no problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then Mr. Cat went home. When Mr. Dog finally finished enjoying his bones, he went to God and said \u201cGod, can dead people come back to life?\u201d and God said, \u201cI\u2019m sorry Mr. Dog, Mr. Cat already came here and told me that he doesn\u2019t want dead people come back to life.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, since then, dogs don\u2019t like cats. And every time a cat sees a dog, the cats always trying to approach the dogs friendly but dogs always give them mean look. That\u2019s why cats and dogs never get along.<\/p>\n

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“Why Cats and Dogs Never Get Along” has a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Here are some ways to give earthquake assistance to the people of Haiti:<\/p>\n

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The Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders and the United Nations Food Program are putting medical supplies, doctors, nurses, food and water on the ground in Haiti to try to prevent the worsening catastrophe and enormous loss of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

adapted by Donalson Latour One day Mr. Cat and Mr. Dog were in a discussion about going to God to ask him a favor. Mr. Cat says he was going to God to ask him \u201ccan dead people don\u2019t come back to life,\u201d and Mr. Dog says he was going to ask God \u201ccan dead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,93],"tags":[223,92,861,2482],"class_list":["post-3393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-stories","category-folktales","tag-childrens-story","tag-folktale","tag-haiti","tag-literature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3393"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3401,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions\/3401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}