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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to a special taster of our new

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premium only story. We hope you like it. He yo, Hello,

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I'm Josephine and this is the Animal Tales podcast, home

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to over four hundred and fifty stories written just for you.

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Our Friday story is especially for our Premium subscribers only.

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Shay is a Premium member from Calgary in Canada, and

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he would like a story with a bunny, a fox,

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a cat, and a Walruss. Don't forget to listen to

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the animal facts after the story to learn more about

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these creatures. For now, it's time to sit back and

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get comfy, because it's time to begin Scary monsters. Shay

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hopped down the forest path a little faster than normal.

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His skips were excited, his twitching nose alert, while his

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eyes flickered back and forth through the undergrowth. The little

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bunny could barely contain himself. He was desperate to find

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some one to talk to, and all because Shay had

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seen a monster. He'd been down at the beach searching

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for shells when he'd seen it. A giant, hulking blob

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of a creature had risen from the water, far bigger

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than anything Shay had ever seen. He'd been too scared

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to stick around, but in that fleeting moment it emerged

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from the sea, he had noticed the creature's whiskered face.

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At first, the bunny had been terrified. He'd run faster

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than he'd ever run before, kicking hard with his long

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legs over the sand dunes, across the field and into

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the safety of the trees. Feeling safer now that he'd

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put plenty of distance between himself and the monster, all

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she wanted to do was tell someone what he'd seen, and,

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as luck would have it, Shay ran into someone almost instantly,

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quite literally, charging into a brown, fluffy backside. The animal yowled,

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leaping into the air in fright to hook her claws

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into the tree above Kyler. It's you, said the bunny

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to the upside down tortoises shell cat. You gave me

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quite a scare. I scared you, said the cat, pulling

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her claws from the tree's trunk. She dropped effortlessly to

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the ground and gave herself a shake. You're the one

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crashing into animals out of the blue. What has you

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in such a hurry? Anyway? Sorry about that, said Shay,

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but Kyler, You're never going to believe it. I saw

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a monster, A monster, Kyla repeated, her eyes narrowing. What

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do you mean a monster? It was huge, even bigger

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than a horse, Shaye said. It made a sound like

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a trumpet as it rose from the water, right by

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the sand dunes. What did it look like, Kyla asked,

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suddenly full of curiosity. I didn't hang around to get

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a good look, Shae confessed. I ran away before it

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could get me, But I did see its face. It

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had long, bushy whiskers around its nose, sort of like you.

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The cat wrinkled her face as she looked down her

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own nose at her whiskered muzzle, whiskers like mine, you say,

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she said, it doesn't sound very scary. Doesn't sound scary,

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Shae repeated, sounding shocked. Didn't you hear me? It was

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a monster, so you keep saying, said the cat, waving

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him off. But this monster of yours doesn't sound all

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that scary to me. And I should know, because I

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saw an even scarier monster just yesterday. What, Shay cried?

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Where what did your monster look like? Well? It was

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far bigger than your monster, for a start, Kyla said,

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mine was more the size of a moose, and the

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noise my monster made was even louder than a trumpet.

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It sounded like an airhorn blasting my ear drums. No way, say, cried,

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and was your monster near the sand dunes too? No,

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it wasn't by the sand dunes, Kyla said, it was

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much further down the beach, upon the rocks. And what

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did it look like? The bunny asked, did you get

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a good look at it? Er? Well, no, Kayler admitted,

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it was half hidden by the rocks, and the sky

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was gray and dark because it was raining. But I

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did see that it had two enormous tusks sticking out

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of its mouth like fangs. If you'd like to hear more,

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