Exotic pets!

When Bob was a child he had all kinds of different pets, a chipmunk, a crow and assorted snakes.  These were educational in his parents eyes.  I had cats and dogs.  They moved easier.  This helped when our kids came home with different pets.  We had crows, turtles, assorted snakes.  One of the best was the mice, Stacy's mice.  We started with two, which soon grew to twelve, and then we had an explosion.  We were asking everyone if they had a fish tank they didn't want.  We really needed it.  We sold some to different pet stores in the area.  We didn't tell Stacy they would go to feeding snakes.  She was too young and I wanted some of them out of here.  The basement was starting to look like a pet store.  Finally one got loose.  It had the freedom of the house for two weeks before he got caught.  He was shiny and sleek compared to the others.  We had Stacy pick out two mice she wanted to keep,  We thought they were both girls until all of a sudden there were ten again.  She finally gave up.  The mice can go.  We were taking the mice to the pet store in a little carrier, including Loco the mouse who was loose in the house.  He was never the same, always tried to get loose.  We watched that he didn't get loose in the car.  On arriving at the pet store and being greeted by the salesgirl, we gave her the container and she went into the back to put them in a cage.  As soon as she opened the lid, out jumped Loco.  Up her arm and down her back he went, never to be seen again.  Of course we told Stacy he would come and join the rest later.  Now when Mckenzie asks for exotic pets I just smile.  Of course she usually wins....