SIDE

Mind you, Jip seemed perfectly happy with the gout pills. You see, that s the difference between animals and people, Maddie. Animals don t complain!

The truth is, Doctor, you prefer animals to people!

Animals are so much nicer than people! I care about animals! That s probably why I m such a terrible people doctor!

(POLYNESIA speaks for the first time.)

Then you should be an animal doctor.

(thoughtfully)
An animal doctor?

Why not? I could bring you hundreds of patients. Mildred was saying just the other day that there isn t a decent animal doctor for miles around!

Who s Mildred?

Farmer Green s cow.

You mean you spoke to her? Animals can actually talk to one another?

Well, of course we can! Do you think we re all dumb?

I  uh  uh  no!! No. I knew that parrots could talk, of course&

Parrots are the finest linguists in the animal kingdom. I speak over two thousand languages, including Dodo and Unicorn.

Unicorn?

I had a classical education.