Excerpts
“Squib Girl’s a great friend. We chase carp and try to see who can stay underwater the longest.”
–River Otter
“I get what Brother Elrod here is saying. Rabbits taste pretty darn good. No getting around that.”
–Squib Dog
“All the Creatures of Come Along Slough must obey the Natural Law of Animals. Only the Squibs flagrantly violate this law!”
—Owl
“The USA is a society of slackers and freeloaders. Only trickle-down gastronomics work for us. Prey-predator ratios? Kill quotas? Meat for the meek? Ridiculous! What we don’t eat can trickle on down to the deadbeats and layabouts.”
–Coyote
“Elrod ate my babies! It’s a fact. Now I gotta go find a willing buck and devote time to an unscheduled mating effort."
–Madame Rabbit.
“To protect our sacred territory, we must declare a war on the Rats.
Before we agree to this, minimal public input is customary.”
–Muskrat
A paradox is any idea that contradicts itself. We live simultaneously in the local world and a nonlocal world. These two worlds are one world. It’s a real brain twister.”
—Maggie the Lorikeet
Nothing escaped Crow’s attention. He had a sharp eye for the tumultuous but tedious routines of life. The animals spent most of their time eating. Eat, eat, eat—that’s all they did, day in and day out. They nibbled, gnawed, and chewed. They killed, ripped, and swallowed. They scavenged and stole. Then they slept until it was time to restart their routines. That was life on the Slough.