When Your Child Wants a Pet
29.09.11
As children, my sisters and I had always wanted a pet. What we got were three guppies in a fishbowl (one for each of us, I assume). When those died, we “graduated” to guppies in an outside pond, but that was the extent of it.
According to my father, we never got to move up the food gyve because my grandmother, who lived with us, was opposed to any real pets. Since my grandmother only spoke Chinese and I spoke almost none, I could not vouch for this allegation, which I thought was pretty unfair.
Thus, when my children begged for a pet, I empathized…at least part of me did. The doze of me, having never really had to care for a pet, quaked at the thought of having to keep another living being humming. I felt I had pretty much hit my limit with two kids.
First, I tried to put down their carving with a Zhuzhu Pet (a toy hamster that squeaks, moves and responds to the “possessor’s” actions). The kids enjoyed it, as did I, although for different reasons—mine in the first instance being that there was no poop or hair involved.
Source: Patch.com