In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Grid.”
… these are all el cheepo cellphone specials!
Caged animal resigned.
Caged animal less resigned.
Caged animal who wants OUT!
Caged animals happy
Abridged grid.
A grid inviting elephant hunters to walk from Africa to Australia.
By now, you are gridding your teeth, no doubt?
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Not gridding my teeth. Gridding a grin. 🙂
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You card help it if you have a code in da dose!
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Bledd you.
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Such giggles – love the tennis animals’ caged
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I believe they can be quite dangerous – particularly when they utter their battle-cry of, ‘Chalk-dust!’
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Beware – legends say they are fleet of foot!
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Unromantic, too. They hate to end up with love.
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Consider it a racket.
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LuV ❤ DaT AminaL! such a Kewl KittY! 🙂
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The one that’s a many-splendored thing?
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LOL! I had quite a laugh at the last one Col. Great interpretation for sure. 😀
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It was fun trying to give such varied pictures some sort of thread!
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You sure nailed it. 😀
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Nice to see ‘my’ pier here. I think those are meant to be whale bones, not elephant tusks. 🙂
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I knew you’d recognise it.
*whispers* Shush, it fitted in better for them to be tusks in this context!
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Trust you to take advantage of a bit of poetic license. 🙄
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Or, in other words, ‘Tusk, tusk; you took a whale of a liberty, there!’ 🙂
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👀🐘🐋
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What an interesting perspective. Kind of puts a new framework on the world, doesn’t it? Very clever collection.
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Thanks for saying so. It is surprising what one can come up with in a collection of photos over the years to fit themes which at first seem impossible! (Though finding them can be a mission if one hasn’t got an amazing catalogue – which I lack!)
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The tiger looks so sad it caught my attention. Its really sad to see animals of the wild caught in small unkempt enclosures for the fleeting joy and happiness it offers to us human! You can see the feeling of helplessness in its eyes.
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I hate zoos for that reason. Our reserves are far more acceptable.
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I hate zoo’s too. Wild animals are not amusement.
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I don’t buy the ‘education’ excuse, either. The only one of any validity is when they are animals unsuitable for release in the wild and that, without the zoo, would not be alive.
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I just feel so bad for them. How would we (humans) feel if we were caught in closed enclosures for the entertainment/education/monetary gains of some other uncomely breed? Thank you for sharing your pictures dear friend. I do not mean to rain down on your post or anything. It is wonderful. That picture just stirred an emotion …nicely done!
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That tiger looks housed in a rather squalid enclosure. Perhaps it should be moved in with the Tennis players.
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That would make him happier, no doubt, but them NOT!
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Who cares? They’re just tennis players; it’s not even like they are real athletes.
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I must point that out to Brudder-in-Law who is one of those smiting the blob over a net!
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Tell him if he wants to engage in a real sport, he should pick up racquetball.
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