So — the next time you hear that someone is facing a problem and think that it does not concern you, remember that when there is a mousetrap in the house, the whole barnyard’s at risk. 🪤

The farmer’s wife did not get well. She died, and so many people came for her funeral that the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide meat for all of them to eat.

His wife’s sickness continued. Friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.

As you know, when someone gets a fever, what do you feed her? Chicken soup. The farmer got his axe and went to the farmyard to fetch the main ingredient.

The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer's wife developed a bad fever.

The little mouse went back very sadly to face the mousetrap alone. That night there was the sound of the trap catching its prey. The farmer's wife rushed to the trap. In the dark she did not see that the trap had captured the tail of a poisonous snake.

The mouse ran to the cow, and he said, "There's a mousetrap in the house!" The cow said, "I can see your concern, but it's no skin off my nose."

The chicken clucked and said, "I can see you're concerned about this, Mouse, but it's of no concern to me."

The mouse ran to the pig and shouted, "There's a mousetrap in the house!" The pig said, "Too bad. But it's not of any concern to me."

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