Before the incident, Jeremy Sutcliffe had actually liked snakes. He’d found them beautiful, even. Besides, the 40-year-old wasn’t someone who kept away from wild creatures.
Jeremy was an adventurous outdoors man who took every chance he could to camp and fish. That love of nature was part of the reason Jeremy and his wife, Jennifer Sutcliffe, 43, had recently moved to South Texas from Kansas.
On a steamy Sunday morning in May 2018, the couple were tidying their yard in preparation for an evening cookout with their daughter.
At around 10: 30 a.m., Jeremy began mowing the lawn while Jennifer worked on the garden. She had just reached down to grab a weed when she saw it: a snake, right next to her hand.
Jennifer leaped up as the snake, a yard long, rose into striking position, its dusty triangular head tensed and its tail making scary sounds. "Snake! "yelled Jennifer as she backed away. "Snake! "
When he heard his wife’s cry, Jeremy figured she had run into the snake that often showed up on the property. He grabbed a shovel（铁铲） to frighten the creature away and jogged around the house to the garden.
That was when he heard the sounds. His wife was cornered between some bushes and the house, the snake directly in her path.
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Jeremy first tried to drive away the snake using the shovel, without success.
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He bent down to pick up a stick lying next to the snake’s head so that he could move it away quickly.
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A Sweet Song
“Nothing will ever be the same again,” Ally whispered.
Ally’s father died last summer. It wasn’t fair, Ally thought, frowning. Dad was young and had never been sick. Why had his heart suddenly stopped? Ally curled herself up in her father’s favorite chair and looked at his picture on the bookcase. It was one of her favorite shots. Ally smiled. “I miss you, Dad,” she said softly.
She felt a hand smoothing her hair and glanced up. “ Why don’t you come outside with me, Ally?” her mother asked. “The birds are nesting (筑巢) in the woods. By this time last year you had already taken dozens of pictures.” But she knew bird watching wouldn’t be the same this year. How could it be? Ally wondered. Ever since she could remember she and Dad had been a team, searching the woods for the special wood warbler (林中莺). “I’ll be out in a while, I promise,” she answered.
After her mother left, Ally reached for the photo album she and Dad had put together. On the cover was a photo of a tiny orange bird with blue-gray wings and black eyes. Dad cut it from a local newspaper. Ally smiled, remembering the excited look on Dad’s face when he showed her the pretty bird.
“I can’t believe someone spotted (发现) this little guy way up here in New Jersey,” he said. “Wood warblers are usually found in the south, not this far north. I bet if we search real hard, Ally, we’ll see this little guy together someday.”
Ally leaned her head back and closed her eyes, letting her mind wander. She loved thinking about the times she and Dad had spent searching the woods for the little bird. They’d never spotted the warbler, but her father had an amazing way of making each outing seem special. He was her best friend, and when they were together Ally felt comfortable, “If only I could get that good feeling back,” she thought, sighing.
Staring at the bird, suddenly, she knew exactly what she had to do. Waving goodbye to her mom, she placed her camera around her neck and hurried outside. “Please let me see the warbler,” she murmured to herself. She gave her worried Mom a kiss and then set off into the woods.
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Familiar smells of the earth rose up to greet her the moment Ally stepped into the woods.
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All too soon the sun disappeared behind thick grey clouds and Ally was about to head home when a ringing birdsong floated down to her.
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【推荐2】Researchers who use animals in psychological experiments must make every effort to minimize (最小化) discomfort, illness, and pain. And procedures that cause animals great suffering are permitted only when no other procedure is available. Moreover, there are federal regulations stating how animals art to be housed, fed. and preserved. Not only must researches try very hard to avoid causing physical discomfort, they are also required to promote the psychological well-being of some species of research animals, such as monkeys.
Why should animals be used for research in the first place? Is it really possible to learn about human behavior from the results of research employing rats and pigeons? The answer is that psychological research that does employ animals has a different focus and is designed to answer different questions than research that uses humans. For example, the shorter life span of animals (rats live an average of two years) allows researchers to learn about the effects of aging in a much smaller period than they could by using human participants. Moreover, some principles of behavior are similar across species, and so some basic behavioral phenomena can be studied more simply in animals. Finally, some studies require large numbers of participants that share similar backgrounds or have been exposed to particular environments—conditions that could not practically be met with human beings.
Research using animals has provided psychologists with information that has greatly benefited humans. For example, it provided the keys to noticing eye disorders in children early enough to prevent permanent damage
Despite the value of research with animal participants, the use of animals in psychological research is highly controversial. For example, some critics believe that animals have rights no less significant than those of humans, and that because animals are unable to agree to participation in studies, their use is not moral. Others object to the use of animals on methodological (方法论的) grounds, saying it is impossible to generalize from finding on nonhuman species to humans.
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On a rainy night in March 2013, my husband Reece went out to get a box that he had forgotten in his car. On his way back inside, he noticed a small shadow moving on the driveway. He walked towards it quietly, and found it was a small hedgehog(刺猬), all wet in the grass, eating mud. Reece quickly removed his jacket and picked it up. The hedgehog was very weak and unable to move about quickly. But he did not seem to be frightened; nor did he resist being scooped up (抱起).
Once he was inside, Reece called out to me, saying that he had something that would make my heart melt, and he was right! We named the hedgehog Alf, because, just like the TV show character of the‘'80s, he came out of nowhere. And, like Alf the alien, this little hedgehog was amazingly intelligent. Not only did he learn to eat his dinner and drink water from his bowls, but he also learnt to wait for us inside his little indoor cubby house and hop into his pet carrier whenever we took him out with us.
Alf knows us very well and recognizes both our voices. He does not roll into a ball or put his spines up. Every day he allows us to pat him. He loves playing with paper and towels and will bite and tug on the bed sheets if given a chance. Like all pets, Alf loves his treats, in particular small pieces of sugar-coated biscuits.
Unfortunately, in April 2014, I was in a car accident and had to spend two months in the hospital. And boy, did I miss Alf! Reece told me that Alf would search around the house for me, checking in places where I'd normally be, such as my desk, my favorite seat in front of the TV and even my side of the bed.
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One evening, Reece set up a video call for me from my hospital bed.
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I cannot describe the feeling when I arrived home and saw his little face again.
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Ripple, a cat in my family, liked to follow us everywhere they went. Our house was just a mile from my school. So instead of driving every day to my school, we would walk down a wooded path which was almost straight except for one fork (岔路) in the road a little way down the path. At the fork, we would turn left, which would take us the rest of the way to my school. If we turn right, the path would lead us deeper into the forest, far away from the town.
Ripple would follow us down that path every day. On weekdays, my dad and I would get ready for our walk, with Ripple following closely behind. When we got to school, my dad would drop me off inside as Ripple waited patiently at the door. After I was safely inside, my dad and Ripple would then start their journey home.
One day, it was snowing, and more snow was falling at a steady rate. Still, we headed out with Ripple following closely behind. We walked with heads down to avoid the blowing snow, and we barely spoke, as our faces were hidden into our coats. Because of this, when a small sound broke through the snow and the wind, we looked at each other in puzzlement, wondering if the other one had said something. But as we listened more, we found it couldn’ t be heard clearly, but was still there, and it made us both turn around to see what was making that noise in this white land.
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A good distance away from where we now stood, Ripple sat in the snow and the cold.
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We admitted that Ripple had a better sense of direction than we had.
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We met at the Leeds Grenville SPCA. We were here to find the best fit for our little family of three. In my heart, however, I think I already knew which one was the right cat. Portia, a quiet brown tabby (斑猫), watched us with partially closed eyes, seemingly saying, “Take your time…” and I know it’s going to be me. As I neared her cage, one paw extended. Finally we decided to bring home a cat that day.
After a day or two of settling in, Portia became a sort of small and furry nanny to my kids. She would travel from room to room with us during the day, usually staying closest to my son. She wanted to sit where he sat, look out the windows from which he peered, and make courageous attempts to share whatever he was eating. At night, she would sprawl onto his lap during story time. We nicknamed her “Guardian Kitten” for the way she always wanted to be where he was, watching over him as if he were her own.
One day, I was gathering leaves while my child delighted in disturbing the piles. Portia was dozing on the porch, her cars sometimes shifting toward the sound of our voices. Then suddenly, from down the street, a desperate voice cried, “No! Come back here!” The phrase was repeated and the volume increased as the speaker drew closer. A Golden Retriever ignored his owner and reached my property first. In a split second it leaped over the low fence surrounding the front yard.
The dog rushed toward my son with boundless energy and body language that expressed that it wanted to play. “Puppy!” my son exclaimed, spreading his arms apart in a welcoming gesture. Unlike me, he was not aware that this dog would, at the very least, knock him down with its uncontained enthusiasm. And I wasn’t going to be able to close the space between us in time.
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When I was wondering how to protect my son, a scream erupted behind me.
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After a while, the owner arrived, out of breath.
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The sun began to rise in the sky, bathing the farm in golden light.
The farmer went to the doghouse as usual, but today, it’s different, the puppies in the doghouse have grown up old enough for sell. He sighed, a small farm can not afford all of the cute little things, though they are cute enough to melt people’s hearts.
He painted a sign advertising the puppies and set about nailing it to a post on the edge of his fence. As he was driving the last nail into the post, he decided to rest for a little while, just then he felt a slight pat on his waist. He looked down into the eyes of a little boy. “Mister,” he said, “I want to buy one of your puppies.” “Well,” said the farmer, as he rubbed the sweat of the back of his neck “these puppies come from fine parents and cost a good deal of money, I don’t think you can make such big decision by yourself.”
The boy dropped his head for a moment. Then reaching deep into his pocket, he pulled out a handful of change and held it up to the farmer “I’ve got 89 cents. Is that enough at least to take a look?” “Sure,” smiled the farmer. A warm stream suddenly rushed through his heart. “You can have more than one look and play with them for a while for free before they find their owners. At your service any time.” And with that, he let out a whistle “Here Dolly!” he called. Out from the doghouse and down the ramp (斜坡) ran Dolly followed by four little balls of fur.
The little boy pressed his face against the chain link fence. His eyes danced with delight. As the dogs made their way to the fence the little boy noticed something else stirring inside the doghouse. Slowly another little fur ball appeared, this puppy noticeably smaller. Down the ramp it slid. Then the little puppy began awkwardly wobbling (晃动、摇晃) toward the others, doing its best to catch up.
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“I want that one,” the little boy said quickly pointing to it.
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Suddenly, the boy began rolling up one leg of his trousers. It was empty!
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