Short Story for boys and girls written by: Luis Muñoz (Spain).
There was a country house in a beautiful valley. It was very big, beautiful, built with good taste, and full of details.
The owner was a well off landowner called John. I was a person who had a good heart and loved animals, he liked going hunting.
He used to capture different living birds to put them into cages. He liked seeing the animals inside, to take care of them and protect them. Before hunting them, those were wild animals living in the valley.
John had a fifteen year old son called Josh. He also liked animals and birds, but unlike his father, he didn´t like the way his father had them, inside a cage, without being able to move, Josh liked them being free, at their natural environment.
Sometimes, when his father wasn´t around, Josh freed some animals in order not to suffer in the cages, even if were confortable for them.
His father used to capture, gazelles, cats, zebras, leopards, eagles, owls and many others.
John, his father never noticed it, until one day realize that some cages were open and empty.
As Josh knew his son´s wish of seeing the animals being free. Knew that it was him.
Josh was angry, didn´t think about it, and decided to leave the country house without telling his dad.
After some days, his father was worried, because Josh wasn´t back. Cried thinking that he had left him forever.
It was his only child, and loved him more than no one, more than the animals, because this was just a hobby to distract himself.
John asked to some of the employers of the house, to go out to look for his son. They finally found him after a long time searching. It was in another country house with a friend.
The employers told him his father´s desires. Begging him to come back, that he could do what he wanted with the animals and the cages, if he came back home in exchange.
Gave him permission to free all the animals, to range them free around the country house or the valley.
Josh went to see his father and told him he was coming back to release the animals. Said that the doors of the cages of the fence doors of the house were going to be always opened, so all animals living there could move as they wanted, getting in or out, if they wanted to eat there or not.
And so they did, animals went in and out when they wanted, even other animals that had never been caged, went there too. They liked going because were well cared for.
Josh and his father were very happy because they had made the right decision letting them free, this way, John did not have to go hunting, the animals went to his property by their own. The country house was always full of animals.
So, the very united family lived very happy with their wild animals and birds, taking care of them
Wild animals should always be free enjoying their nature and environment.
THE END
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