Bubba: A Gerbil’s Adventure

By Richard Engel and Deborah Dominguez MFT

Bubba was spinning, spinning, spinning and amazingly watching and thinking and learning. No one, then or later, figured out how Bubba learned to put two and two together, especially himself, but he wasn’t about to let anyone know, that’s for sure. He was in a difficult and unusual situation and needed to keep close confidence with just himself. He was fully aware that he shouldn’t be able to think about the things he was thinking, that he should be content to simply eat, drink, and run on his exercise wheel, but something interesting happened to him that made those things pointless. He was only a gerbil, yet he was suddenly reasoning like a human!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 18, 2018
• ISBN: 9781984555816

Richard Engel

Richard Engel is the award winning Chief-Foreign Correspondent for NBC and has been in the Middle East war zone for over twenty years. He is the author of And Then All Hell Broke Loose, War Journal, and A Fist in the Hornet’s Nest.

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Copyright © 2018 by Deborah Dominguez Richard Engel.

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ISBN:             Hardcover             978-1-9845-5580-9

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Contents

Chapter 1:   Bubba Escapes

Chapter 2:   Bubba Is Free at Last

Chapter 3:   Bubba’s First E-mail

Chapter 4:   Bubba’s E-mail from France

Chapter 5:   Bubba’s Long E-mail

Chapter 6:   Lost at Sea

Chapter 7:   Bubba Survives

Chapter 8:   His Free Cruise

Chapter 9:   It Looks like Safety

Chapter 10: An Update Goes to Debi

Chapter 11: Bubba Discovered

Chapter 12: Bubba Saves the Missionaries

Chapter 13: Bubba Makes It Home

DEDICATION

To my grandchildren and great grandchildren.

CHAPTER 1

Bubba Escapes

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Bubba was spinning, spinning, spinning, and amazingly watching and thinking and learning. No one then or later figured out how Bubba learned to put two and two together, especially him, but he wasn’t about to let anyone know, that’s for sure. He was in a difficult and unusual situation and needed to keep close confidence with just himself. He was fully aware he shouldn’t be able to think about the things he was thinking, that he should be content to simply eat, drink, and run on his exercise wheel. But something interesting happened to him that made those things pointless. He was only a gerbil, yet he was suddenly reasoning like a human.

He could easily see outside his fantastic habitat cage with all its colorful tubes and accessories, but Bubba knew there was more outside than inside his plastic house. He now understood there was more going on in the outside world than spinning and eating. While he exercised on his bright red wheel, he would watch and think and learn; it was so strange.

People passed by and enjoyed watching him spinning on the red wheel or running through the colorful tubes, but most of the time, they moved on because they had something else to do. Bubba would just continue running on his fiery red wheel, staying in top shape for the right moment … if he only knew what the right moment was.

He had been aware for quite a while now that the wheel was red, the colorful tubes were green or blue or clear, and the confining door on one side of his cage was bright yellow, but he didn’t know how he learned about colors. He knew he was spinning because everyone who looked into his cage said so that he was spinning on his red wheel, but how did he learn to understand what they were saying? He knew words, and he knew what they meant. It was very strange.

All he knew for sure was he wanted to escape his habitat. To