EXERCISE: barnyard chit chat?

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Original posting 5 April 2009

Remember Dr. Doolittle?

Writer's Digest, December 2007, page 21, offers the contest prompt:

"A dairy worker develops the uncanny ability to communicate with livestock." From the Writer's Book of Matches by the staff of fresh boiled peanuts, a literary journal.

If I could talk to the animals... what happens? Do cows really want to get up that early? And what do other people think about it?

Variations? Well, there are lots of people who work with animals. Or what about the Kansas farmer learning to listen to his crops? Heck, what happens when a laptop computer decides to answer the user that is complaining about how the computer made a mistake?

Just remember, you do the writing.

and babbling brooks or other voices in nature?