# NEW PREMIUM TRAILER: Forbidden Friends

An episode of [Animal Tales: The Kids' Story Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1644596989), 11 Jun 2026, 5:26.

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## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to a special taster of our new
[0:03] Speaker 1: premium only story. We hope you like it. Hell yo, Hello,
[0:23] Speaker 1: I'm Josephine and this is the Animal Tales podcast. There
[0:27] Speaker 1: are over one hundred extra stories on our premium service,
[0:30] Speaker 1: with a new one released every Friday, and this is
[0:34] Speaker 1: another one. R s R are premium members from Flores
[0:39] Speaker 1: Island in the Azures, and they would like a story
[0:42] Speaker 1: with a baby deer, a baby wolf, and a baby
[0:46] Speaker 1: albino owl. Don't forget to listen to the animal facts
[0:50] Speaker 1: after the story to learn more about these creatures. If
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[1:00] Speaker 1: dot uk. As premium listeners, we guarantee to write one
[1:04] Speaker 1: for you. For now, it's time to sit back and
[1:08] Speaker 1: get comfy, because it's time to begin Forbidden Friends. Once
[1:15] Speaker 1: upon a time, there were three very young animals, a fawn,
[1:20] Speaker 1: a wolf cub, and an owlet. They were little more
[1:24] Speaker 1: than babies, so didn't know much about the world or
[1:27] Speaker 1: what was expected of them, and they certainly didn't know
[1:31] Speaker 1: that they couldn't be friends. Deer, wolves and owls would
[1:36] Speaker 1: normally have nothing to do with one another in the forest,
[1:40] Speaker 1: but nobody had told the three youngsters this. All they
[1:44] Speaker 1: wanted to do was spend time together and play. River
[1:49] Speaker 1: was the tallest, being a fawn, her long deer legs
[1:54] Speaker 1: had been wobbly at first, but now she enjoyed running
[1:57] Speaker 1: and jumping through the undergrowth. Rainy was smaller, but being
[2:02] Speaker 1: a wolf cub, she was always looking to play. She
[2:06] Speaker 1: enjoyed pouncing and discovering new and interesting smells with her
[2:11] Speaker 1: sensitive nose. And then there was Shine, the owlet, still
[2:17] Speaker 1: wrapped in a covering of fluffy down. It would be
[2:20] Speaker 1: a long time until her adult feathers grew that would
[2:23] Speaker 1: help her to fly. What's more, Shine was albino, so
[2:28] Speaker 1: every feather was a brilliant white. They were a strange sight,
[2:34] Speaker 1: the fawn, the wolf cub, and the owlet, but all
[2:37] Speaker 1: that mattered to them was having fun together and not
[2:41] Speaker 1: knowing any better. That's what they did then. One evening,
[2:47] Speaker 1: while they rolled around amongst the bracken and foxgloves, a
[2:51] Speaker 1: hoopoo bird landed on a near by branch. It was
[2:55] Speaker 1: so surprised to see the three animals together that the
[2:59] Speaker 1: tall feathery crest atop its head almost popped off. What
[3:03] Speaker 1: is the meaning of this, the hoopoo snapped crossly. An
[3:08] Speaker 1: owl playing with a deer and a wolf has the
[3:12] Speaker 1: world gone mad? The three friends were so stunned by
[3:17] Speaker 1: the stern voice that they stopped playing immediately. We were
[3:21] Speaker 1: only playing, said Shine the owl at quietly. Then you
[3:26] Speaker 1: should be playing with your own kind, said the hoopoo sternly,
[3:31] Speaker 1: another owl, perhaps, or at the very least a creature
[3:35] Speaker 1: with feathers. A deer and a wolf are not friends
[3:39] Speaker 1: for you, But why, asked Shine innocently. Deer are simple
[3:46] Speaker 1: and foolish, while wolves are ferocious and deadly, stated the hoopoo,
[3:52] Speaker 1: flicking its long beak upwards as if to say there
[3:55] Speaker 1: was nothing more to be said on the matter. Shine's
[3:59] Speaker 1: experience of her two friends didn't match what the hoopoo
[4:03] Speaker 1: was saying at all, but she was too young to
[4:06] Speaker 1: argue with such an impressive bird. However, during this exchange,
[4:11] Speaker 1: she had noted something curious about the hoopoo, something she
[4:16] Speaker 1: had never seen before on a bird. What's that wrapped
[4:20] Speaker 1: around your foot? Asked the howlet. The hoopoo was surprised
[4:25] Speaker 1: by the change of subject. Its foot was tangled up
[4:29] Speaker 1: in fishing line, something it had accidentally trodden in while
[4:33] Speaker 1: foraging for insects beside a river. The more the hoopoe
[4:37] Speaker 1: had pecked and pulled at the line, the more knotted
[4:40] Speaker 1: it appeared to get. It was now very uncomfortable, making
[4:45] Speaker 1: standing on the foot difficult. It's something a human threw away,
[4:50] Speaker 1: grumbled the hoopoo as it glanced at the fishing line.
[4:54] Speaker 1: And now I'm stuck with it. It's certainly nothing you
[4:58] Speaker 1: need to concern yourself with, but I could help, said
[5:02] Speaker 1: river the fawn. If you'd like to hear more, please
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[5:23] Speaker 1: I look forward to seeing you there

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