The Monkees pad becomes a real animal house, when Peter unoffically adopts a lion cub from the circus
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"Lions, and Tigers, and Bears, and Monkess Oh My"
It was a quiet day at the pad.
The Monkees had just finished practicing and were deciding on how to spend the rest of the day.
"How about a movie?" asked Davy.
"It's nice of a day to be indoors, said Micky.
"Maybe we can take a drive down the strip," said Mike.
"Sounds good to me," said Peter.
And the guys headed out to the car.
As they drove down the road, they spotted a sign.
"I wonder what it says," said Davy.
"Circus located at ball park, one day only," said Micky reading the poster.
"Groovy, I love a circus, said Peter.
"I remember the last time we went to a circus is when we were pretending to be trappez artists," said Davy, reffering to the time the guys acted a group called the Muzzerlla Brothers to help a girl named Susan and her father save their family circus.
"Do you think we can check it out?" Peter asked.
"Sure why not,"Mike answered.
So the guys drove to thre park and went to the grounds, where they spotted several tents.
"This must be the place alright," said Davy as he and the guys appoarched the gates.
They each paid 50 cents to entered the area.
Just then, there a voice was heard over a loud speaker.
"Attention ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the next show at the big top will start in five minutes," said the voice.
"Let's head to the tent now so we can get a good seat," said Davy.
As the Monkees towards the big top, Micky began to sing a song.
"It's great it's terrific, it's the best show on earth, the circus will be in town today," he sang.
"What kind of song is that?" Mike asked.
"It's a theme somg from an old TV show that I heard somewhere."
The guys go to the big top, went inside and took their seats.
When the tent was full the show began.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls welcome to the big top show!" said the ringleader, speaking into a meagphone.
The audince clapped.
"Our first act is Jojo the tap dancing chimp!"
The crowd clapped again.
Seconds later, a chimp wearing a tux and tap show came out of a cage and began to dance for the audince.
At the end of his dance Jojo did a flip, landing in Mike's lap and gave him a kiss on the cheek, causing the crowd and the other Monkees to laugh.
The ringleader then cracked a whip, indicating for the chimp to return to his cage, which he did.
The crowd cheered for the act, expect for Peter, who didn't like to see an animal get treated like that.
"Next we have Maggie the tiger, who will jump through the flamed hoops!"
The ring leader indicated to a row consisting of three hoops that were on fire.
The crowd ohhed and ahhed, but not Peter.
He then pointed to the rings and said to the tiger," Jump Maggie!"
But the animal didn't move.
"Jump Maggie!" comanded the ringleader.
Maggie didn't move towards the rings, but rather away from them.
"Maggie Jump right this instant!" yelled the ringleader cracking his whip.
Maggie then went back into her cage.
Since there was no trick, the crowd turned unhappy and began to boo, and with that the show ended.
"I'm glad to show is over, said Peter, I didn't like how that ringleader treated those animal.
"Peter, I'm sure it was all an act," said Mike.
"I'm going to check out the animals," said Micky.
"Me to," said Davy.
"I'm going to get a soda, I hate seeing all those animals caged up," said Peter.
And Peter took off in a different direction than his bandmates.
As he walked around, Peter heard a voice coming from a nearby tent.
"You messed up my show once again Maggie!" shouted a voice.
Peter carefully poked his head in the tent to see that it was the ringleader, yelling at the tiger from the show.
In one hand, he held a whip the other hand was a small tiger cub.
"Listen Maggie, you better do what I says, who you'll never see you cub again!"
The cub then bit the ringleader on the hand, causing him to drop it.
The cub then took off, and Peter ran after it.
He managed to catch up to it and scooped the cub up in his hands.
The cub hissed at Peter, but he calmed it down.
"Don't worry, I'm not going to hurt you,"said Peter.
He gentlely pet the cub, causing it to pur.
He knew that the ringleader would coming looking for the cub so he took off.
Luckily, he found the guys.
"There you are Peter," said Mike.
"Hey that's a very realistic toy tiger you got there," said Davy.
Just then, the guys noticed something out the cub.
"Did that stuffed tiger just blinked or am I seeing things?" asked Micky.
"It is a real tiger," said Peter.
"What?" said Micky.
"Peter, what are you doing with a real tiger cub?" asked Mike.
"Yeah, you can get in real trouvlw you know," said Davy.
"I had to take him, I saw the ringleader was going to hurt him," said Peter.
"Well then we better get out of here before we get spotted with the cub and get into trouble," said Micky.
"Now wait a minute, just how are we going to sneak a tiger cub out of here?" said Mike.
"I got an idea said Peter, Davy give me your jacket."
Davy thought it was an odd request for a situation like this, but he did what Peter told him to do.
Peter then wrapped the tiger cub in the jacket.
After that, the guys then headed for the gates to leave.
Just as the guys were about to leave when they saw the ringleader talking to the ticketseller.
"That's the ringleader," said Davy.
"And the man who wanted to hurt the tiger cub," said Peter.
"It's ok, let's just be cool and hopefully he won't notice," said Mike.
"Did you gentlemen enjoyed the circus today?" asked the ringerleader in a cherry voice as the Monkees appoarched the gates.
"Yeah we had a groovy time," said Micky.
"My baby brother loved it, but he fell asleep so we have to take him home," said Peter.
"Alright have a nice day then," said the ringleader.
The Monkees then dashed to the Monkeemobile, with Peter, still holding on to the tiger cub tightly.
When they got in the car, Peter unwrapped the cub out of the jacket and said to the cub,"You're safe now."
The cub purred once more.
"Oh Davy, here you go," said Peter handing Davy his jacket back.
"You know Peter, you plan might had worked, but you owe me a new jacket," said Davy.
That's all I got for tonight
Mickys411 (Laura)

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