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Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing

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    Dan (in ASL): This book is called "Animals
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    Definitely Should Not Wear Clothing.
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    The book is written by Judi Barrett. The Illustrator's
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    name is Roy Barrett.
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    "Animals definitely should not wear clothing."
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    "For example, if you have a porcupine, you know
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    that spiny animal with lots of quills,
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    "Suppose you gave that porcupine a nice shirt,
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    what whould happen?"
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    "It would get totally destroyed!"
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    "The quills would poke through the shirt and
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    destroy it."
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    "So you can't give a porcupine a shirt."
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    "Suppose you gave a camel
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    a hat - what would it do with it?"
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    "Maybe it'd get confused!"
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    "It might put it on its head or maybe on one of its
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    humps!"
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    "So you can't give a hat to a camel."
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    "Suppose you have a snake. If you give it
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    pants, what would happen? Would the pants sta
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    on the snake? No way!"
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    "The snake would crawl right out of the pants
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    and leave them behind - whoops!
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    "So you can't give a snake clothes."
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    "If you have a mouse, maybe you'd think, what
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    a lovely hat I have, let me give it to the mouse.
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    So you put it on, but wait!
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    "Where's the mouse? Oh, oh! There it is.
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    The mouse is too small, and the hat covered it.
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    So you can't give a mouse a hat."
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    Ah, here we have a sheep.
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    You know, it already has thick, curly, warm wool.
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    If you gave it a scarf, a hat, a sweater,
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    and bundled it up tight, boy, that would be too hot!
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    The poor thing would be sweating and sweating.
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    So you shouldn't give a sheep clothes, either.
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    Next we have a pig.
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    You know, the pig is a nice clean animal
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    Always clean and well-mannered.
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    No way. So if you gave it some formal dress,
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    like a tie and button down shirt, do you think it'd
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    stay clean?
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    Nope - that pig is sloppy, going to be rolling in the
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    dirt and getting food all over itself.
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    So you can't give a pig clean clothes like that.
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    Here's a chicken - you know what they do every
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    day, right? Laying eggs, that's their routine.
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    Now, suppose you gave a chicken some lovely
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    pants to wear - do you think it could continue to
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    lay eggs? No chance - the eggs would get stuck in
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    her pants!
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    So you really can't give a chicken clothes.
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    You know the animal called a kangaroo? It
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    hops along and has a little pouch for the baby on
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    its stomach?
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    Suppose you gave it a jacket with pockets on
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    the side. But that animal already has a pouch
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    for its baby to ride in. What does it need those
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    extra pockets for?! Forget it.
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    Don't give a kangaroo a coat with extra pockets.
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    Here's a giraffe - you know, with a really long neck.
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    If you gave it a coat with a tie, it has such a lon
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    neck, how many ties would you give it?
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    It would look ridiculous! You don't need to give a
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    giraffe clothes like a coat and tie.
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    If you give clothes to a goat, what would it do?
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    Eat it! Because, of course, goats have a habit of
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    eating clothes! So you might give it clothes, and
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    suddenly they're gone, destroyed.
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    Because the goat ate it.
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    So you can't give a goat clothing.
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    (ACHOO!) Excuse me.
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    Here's another animal, a walrus, with long tusks
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    that swims in the ocean.
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    If you gave fancy clothes to that walrus, a tie,
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    hat, and coat, would it stay dry?
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    Definitely not. Once you gave the clothes to the
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    walrus, he'd hop right into the water for a swim!
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    Everything would get soaked and stay soggy.
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    You can't give a walrus clothes.
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    If you gave pants with suspenders to a moose,
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    what do you think the moose would do with it?
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    It might hang the suspenders on its antlers!
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    And then it would be totally stuck.
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    So a moose can't use suspenders.
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    Here's an animal called an opossum, that likes
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    to hang upside down.
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    Suppose you gave the oppossum some clothes
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    while it's hanging there, how do you think you'd
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    do it? Since it's hanging upside down, which way
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    do you put the clothes on?
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    And last, if you provide clothing for an elephant,
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    an elegant hat and blouse, and a woman strolls up
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    who's wearing the same clothing, how embarassing
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    that would be!
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    So you can't give clothing to animals, absolutely not!
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    That's it - hooray.
Title:
Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing
Video Language:
English
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07:55
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