Alison, we're catching up; but chickens will not be part of this equation. After church, we dropped Savannah off at her religious education class. This gave us 50 minutes to kill. We needed pet supplies, so we ended up at the convenient and always-loon-filled PetSmart. What a collection of shoppers this place always has.
We procured the supplies for our annoying parakeets. I'd prefer to buy them little knapsacks and wish them well, but the children won't permit it. We walked through the bird section longing for the quieter finches or perhaps just buying sound proofing for our own cage. Past the birds were the rodents. Those are easy to talk my son out of because they are nearly all nocturnal and all are smelly, and they bite. Whew!
Then, we passed the reptiles. Snakes aren't even a consideration in our house. My husband is beyond loathing them and I don't like the idea of feeding them frozen rodents. But lizards - they have legs, they eat worms and crickets, they are not noisy and pretty mellow. Our son lost his mind. He can read now and narrowed it down to three within about 3 minutes: Water Dragon, Leopard Gecko and Anoles.
Water Dragon -- cool, but it would need a large tank very soon and we don't have the room.
Leopard Gecko - so close - but nocturnal. Too bad.
Anoles - change colors, day time, small - done deal. "We'll take two, please." I had these as a child and found them easy and interesting. Not a hold-me type of pet, but that's fine.
We couldn't wrap this up before we picked her up so we all ventured back to the store. "Fish, can I have a fish since he gets lizards?" "I'll pay for them!"
$230 later we have two new types of pets: 2 anoles. They are named Bill and Phil. They are named bill when they are brown, when they turn green they are Phil. Sometimes we have two Bills and sometimes we have two Phils.
Fish, no names. Just the fish for now. I'm sure they'll end up with names.
Do you know anyone who wants two beautiful, chatty, squawky parakeets? Really, we'll give them to you with the cage.
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