Tigedy is Saved by His Dinner

For 2-5 year olds
8:38 minutes
Vocabulary words are in red.

Tigedy smelling a rabbit. Animals have a much more developed sense of smell than humans.
* This story involves Tigedy hunting rabbit with the intention of eating it. He does not catch the rabbit.*


One day there was a tiger named Tigedy. He lived in the house of his good friend Teddy Bear. One day Tigedy said to Teddy Bear "Teddy Bear, I'm going out to find a rabbit for our dinner." Teddy Bear said "OK Teddy but remember it's winter time and the snow outside is very deep. Teddy said that's ok. I'm a snow tiger. I am very nimble on the snow and I can walk right on top of it. Tigedy went out the door and sure enough the snow was very deep but Tigedy was very light and sure footed. He managed to walk right on top of the snow.

Tigedy walked into the woods and he walked a long way until he got to a field where he knew rabbits sometimes lived. In the middle of the field was a great big tree all covered with snow. It looked like a white tree because of all the snow on top of it. It was a big redwood tree. Underneath the tree there was a rabbit. Tigedy could see him. But even more than that Tigedy could smell him. Tigedy decided he would sneak up on the rabbit and surprise him.

Tigedy got low down in the snow and used his white fur to stay camoflaged. Then he began to stalk the rabbit . (ken makes stalking movements) Slowly and carefully he moved toward the rabbit. Bit by bit. Inch by inch. Soon he was just a few feet away. He could see the rabbit's little nose twitching as he sniffed. Tigedy got ready to pounce. And then he pounced! But the rabbit smelled him just before he pounced. As he was in the middle of the air, leaping towards the rabbit the rabbit went right down his hole and under the snow. Instead of hitting the rabbit Tigedy ran into the tree. When he hit the tree snow shook loose from the branches above. Tons of snow that was sitting on the branches went (crazy falling noise by ken) right down on Tigedy's noggin' burying him all the way up to his eyes in the snow. Tigedy was under the snow and he went (crazy ken noise of shaking off snow -Will laughing like a lunatic).



"I'm so covered with snow!" he said. Then Tigedy realized "I am too deep in the snow. There's so much snow on me I can't move."

Just then he saw the rabbit come peaking up out of his hole. The rabbit didn't see Tigedy because Tigedy was covered in snow and the rabbit began to hop around. It hopped very close to T. Tigedy tried to get the rabbit but he couldn't do it. Instead he said "Hello Mr. Rabbit?"

The rabbit looked around and said "Is that snow bank talking to me?"

"Uh, no it's me Tigedy. I'm caught under all this snow."

"Aren't you the one who just tried to pounce on me?"

"Yes that was me."

"If I help you will you eat me."

Tigedy said "No I won't if you help me."

So the rabbit said "Alright I'll help."

The rabbit began to dig and dig and dig. But the rabbit only managed to uncover Tigedy's ear. That's because a rabbit is not very big.

He said "Hang on. I need to get my cousins."

So the rabbit went down the hole. In just a few minutes he came back with 20 more rabbits. They all came jumping up out of the hole and they dug around Tigedy and dug and dug and dug until Tigedy was free.


The rabbits said "What were you doing out here anyway?'

Tigedy said "I was looking for a rabbit for dinner."

The rabbits said "We don't want to be dinner."

Tigedy said "Don't worry, you won't be dinner now. Because you helped free me from that snow I'll never eat rabbits from here again. Because I owe you something. I owe you for getting me out of the snowbank."

The rabbit said "Well we were happy to do and I am glad to hear that you are not going to ty to have us for dinner.


Tigedy said "I won't but I still need a dinner or I'll go hungry!"


The rabbits said "Here we have something for you."

They went deep down into their underground warrens and they got carrots they had picked earlier that year. They brought a great big bunch of carrots out to Tigedy.

They said "Here you go, you can cook these in your stew pot at home. We love carrots. They're delicious."

Tigedy said "Thank you rabbits. That is so generous of you."

He picked up the carrots and headed back to Teddy Bear's cabin. When he got there Teddy Bear cut the carrots into a stew along with potatoes and peas and mushrooms and onions. And it was so good that they enjoyed the stew and went to sleep happy and with full tummies.