I'm sure nobody is surprised, because apparently Cooper was everyone's favorite pet. Interesting, because only Bex and Shady were living at home when they picked him from the animal shelter. Coop definitely was dad-the-bad's favorite. Cooper knew the sound of his cab dropping him off every thursday night, and always went crazy. I'm sure the neighbors are glad we're gone.
Lab rats - although no names were given, I brought home from a lab workshop several baby rats. We had injected the mother with a substance, not knowing she was pregnant, causing her to give birth to several cute little rats. Because the lab was going to destroy them, I took them home to Lindsey, knowing she would never forgive me if I let that happen. She cared for them, letting them crawl all over her for several months. Finally, it became evident we couldn't keep them and needed to let them fend for themselves in a field nearby. Lindsey built an escape cage for them, complete with an escape hatch for them in case they were chased by a predator. According to Ryan, these guys could catch and eat wasps in mid air.
Spike - (not Spike the iguana) this guy was the Challenge class pet hedgehog. Every weekend one child was chosen to take him home to care for him. When it was our turn, Lindsey was excited. Because she is a pushover for pets, she let him out of the cage to "roam around" for awhile. She forgot to watch him carefully and soon realized he was "lost." The first clue was hearing a scratching sound coming from the wall. Sure enough, Spike had crawled into the wall through a small corner gap in the baseboard - too small for us to get him out. Thanks to dad-the-bad, he took off the baseboard and lured him close with "treats" and using a heavy glove, pulled him out to "safety."
Hamster - (another class pet ) this time Bethany offered to keep the class hamster for the entire summer. I'm not sure how it happened, but he escaped as well. We thought for sure he was a gonner, and Bethany was worried about what to tell her teacher. We were planning to buy another hamster when the day before class started we found him scrounging around the garage. We returned him - missing one eye, with scraglyl fur, and looking anorexic - the next day. We were never asked to watch a pet again.
Spritzie - Lindsey's hamster - we only had him for a short time when Lindsey fed him Captain Crunch. (See comment #1) Apparently they can't eat that kind of treat and he suffered the consequences.
We also adopted many a turtle - none of them stayed long - as well as countless frogs that Lindsey collected each night in a bucket on our walk around the neighborhood. She insisted on "keeping them" so we left them in her open bucket on the front porch. She was always disappointed in the morning when they were gone.
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My hamster (Spritzee) actually died because of Ashley. I asked her if hamsters could have Captain Crunch or Froot Loops or whatever and she said, "what do you think?" (insert mean sarcastic voice) I took that as a yes and fed her the cereal and she died the next day.
It was almost as mean as the time when Winkie died and when she came home and saw me crying she said, "What, is your stupid rabbit missing?"
Yeah, I'm still traumatized from those experiences.
My kids have never had a pet!! They don't know the difference though...Monya
Yep. Sometimes it causes a lot of trauma, as you can see.
oh how i miss that dog. he was nuts!
And I forgot about the hamster (is that what it was?) that we couldn't find until we smelled something bad in the garage. He had crawled into the exhaust tube of the dryer. Poor DTB had to clean it out.
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