One day, a puma caught a wild cat defecating with great difficulty, screaming in pain, after eating clawed crayfish. She then decided to help him by teaching him to hunt animals with good, tasty meat.
The wild cat, groaning from the suffering he had endured and barely moving his legs due to pain in the anus, followed the puma. However, when he saw the chachalaca duck, he was about to rush at it, but the puma dissuaded him, wisely explaining that this bird was too bony. This means he will have digestive problems again. So you should wait for something tastier.
Then the wild cat heard the puma mutter quietly:
- March, April, May, June...
Very soon a deer appeared on the path, coming to drink water. The wild cat immediately rushed to the puma:
- Here it is - our long-awaited prey. I hope now you won’t mind if we hunt her.
- No, my friend, I will! Don't you see that this animal consists only of sinews? - the puma reasonably objected, and she continued: March, April, May, June...
It took a long time before the fat bull appeared. This is what excited the puma, who quickly whispered to the wild cat:
“But the meat of this particular animal is very suitable for eating.” We need to attack him together, knock him to the ground and then finish him off. I'll hang on his throat, and you'll grab his tail.
- I understood everything! — the wild cat purred joyfully.
Everything worked out for them as well as possible.
While they were dividing the bull's meat into equal parts, the puma said to the wild cat:
“Today, buddy, you’re finally going to eat your fill.”
You will be satisfied with pure meat. And when you want to eat again, find me to hunt again.
“I agree,” the wild cat lit up with joy.
He was very pleased that he had received meat even for his brothers.
“Here’s meat for you, my brothers!” Eat as much as you want! - he said when he returned home.
Seeing so much delicious meat obtained by the wild cat, the elder brother asked:
- How did you manage to do this?
- Ask less and eat more! The time will come and I will tell you everything! — the wild cat answered thoughtfully.
But since there were many brothers, there was only enough meat for a few days. The wild cat fell into deep thought about how to get more meat so that it would last for a long time. And as a result, this is what he came up with.
“If I go hunting with a puma, then again there won’t be enough meat for long, because there are a lot of us.” And if I go alone, then I won’t have to share with the puma. “That’s what I’ll do,” the wild cat decided.
Having sat in ambush, he began to mutter, as the puma did, in the hope that it was this saying that would lure the game:
- March, April, May, June...
And then he saw a fat bull coming to drink.
The wild cat waited patiently until the bull fell to the water, and only then quickly rushed on top of him. Feeling the cat on his back, the bull jumped up and began to rush headlong through the surrounding thickets. The poor wild cat could not stay on the bull's neck for long. He was just about to jump to the ground, but, unfortunately for him, the bull at that time was carried into the thickets of a beeb tree, which had thorns in the form of hooks. The cat got caught on the thorns and hung on them, without any possibility of freeing himself.
Several days passed. The brothers of the wild cat, despairing of seeing him with his prey, went in search of the unfortunate man. They walked for a long time through the forest thickets, until finally they came to where, it seemed, a terrible battle had taken place. There were clumps of fur hanging everywhere, similar to their missing brother's fur. Having carefully examined the surroundings, they found the poor fellow dead in the branches of a beeb tree, impaled on its thorns.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru