Teddy Talk: Creating, Collecting, Connecting

your wee robin reminds me of an incident a couple of years ago.

I was a work one day in the summer (on nights) and left the kitchen door open.  Later on in the evening I went to close the door and it would shut - then I heard a "pop".  The sight I saw was horrendous - a toad had been trapped between the door frame and the door and to make matters worse he was still alive with his vital organs hanging out.

I was absolutely distraught, and being so soft I couldn't even put him out of his suffering - it took him about 2 hours to die.  I cannot even express how upset I was.

Now I always look behind the door before I close it.

I have tried to make up for it since by carrying them to safety when they try to cross the busy road to get to the stream on the other side.

It was terrible though - even now it haunts me.

Karon