That tadpole pet story reminds me.....
My mother would let us have ANY pet we ever wanted. We had....
a parrokeet, 2 aquariums, 6 turtles, a dog, a cat, a guinea pig, and a hamster...plus 12 hunting dogs...ALL at the same TIME. If we'd had more land she'd let us have the whole farm
And she loved all these things as much as we did
Even the mouse looking ones.
Btw, one of those aquariums...my baby brother got a toy set one year...with real miniature tools...no fake plastic here
He sawed the table leg off the end table, took the saw away, nailed something into the TV, no more hammer, little screwdriver....scrapped the back door w/ that sucker....any way....only thing left was a wooden mallet and the measuring tape. He took that mallet and whacked the side of the aquariums....didn't shattered...made a nice round hole in the side. Fishies pouring out by the gallons
He's real good at measuring stuff now though
