Some animals are born lucky. Bad fortune never pursues them. After untroubled lives they depart this world without a wrinkle or a gray hair to show for their presence on earth.
Other animals are forever experiencing tough luck. They just never get the breaks. With luckless feed they instinctively tread on all of Fate's banana peels and, without quite knowing what it's all about, go skidding into Old Man Trouble.
Suck an animal was The Patsy, a young female elephant I brought out of Ceylon some years ago...