Saturday, April 28, 2007
Disaster at Petland
The last couple of days, my 6 year old daughter is absolutely ADDICTED to Petland! We went there at the beginning of the week to see a puppy that my sister was interested in, a Chihuaha cross Daschund. Well, thus began my weekly Petland visits. One of the brilliant employees at Petland decided to show Court how to hold the Cockatiel. She begged, and begged, long after the employee had disappeared, "Mommy, let me hold the bird again, come on, I know how!" Let's face it...I didn't want to tell her that I knew ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about birds, let alone how to handle one. So, I began being Sherry, the Bird Lady. I picked it up, let her take it off my finger, pet it. Feeling pretty confident, we walked around the store, all the while thinking, I can handle these vermin! Yup, I rule! Anyhow, that feeling didn't last longer then about 30 seconds. Next, she begged me to hold the guinnea pig. I said flat out "no way." Strolling over to the hamster pen, I said with confidence "but I can pick up the hamster." I chose the most docile, sleeping hamster (master that I am!). It stayed sleeping in my hand as my daughter said her ooohs and aaahhhs. Just then, the thing took a flying leap right out of my hands and flipped onto the floor and started to run! I ran after the thing yelling until I caught it, and flipped it back into it's cage, and then with real poise started looking around to make sure nobody had seen me almost kill one of the animals! My daughter was shaken up, but then we both started laughing hysterically. I said, "Courtnay, I don't think mommy is very good at holding these animals." She said, "it's o.k...I think you're right!
| posted by Warm Fuzzies at 6:11 PM
