"Mama, I need to bring my friend "Froggie" inside for the night. He may get cold." "Mama, I found a lizard. His name is Lucky. He needs to come in and live in the bath tub." On one ocassion I came home, after being at the grocery store, to find that her Daddy had allowed her into the bathtub to play with a SNAPPING TURTLE! "Well, 'Harvard', I'll bet you didn't know that was a snapping turtle did you??" "No." Said the boy from Philly. Turtle went out into the woods as child screams..."MY TURTLE!"
As time went by, there were more and more animals that she brought into the house much to Mama's dismay. Turtles, lots of frogs, many many lizards. This was only the beginning. I can thank Steve Irwin for this...God rest his soul.
I must admit that the idea of rescuing animals was my fault. If we saw a dog in the highway about to get hit, we would bring it home and try to find the owner. They always went back to the owner somehow, but sometimes we would see them back out again, and that was very heart breaking. Another big mistake that I made was taking her into a pet shop. We have had one of every kind of animal that there is in a pet shop! Because I also love God's creatures, so it was really hard for me to say, "no." except for when she wanted a snake! Had to stop there!!! So, since the girl was about 3 we have had indoor animals, but not SO many! That all changed when she started wanting to learn to ride a horse. It was downhill from there.
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