Wednesday, November 19, 2008

PETA watch list

My son is on the PETA watch list. The reason, you ask? It has nothing to do with his abuse of live animals or bad intentions toward live animals. It has to do with what he does to the stuffed animals in his room. Or so I thought.

Currently he has Tigger stuffed under the chair in the living room. Several of Maggie's Webkinz are in the freezer. Ord, from "Dragon Tales," is in the dishwasher. He has taken a very large panda bear and tied its hands together sitting in the living room (this one I helped with). He took his favorite bear in the world and put it on the ceiling fan (it wasn't running). Sadly, I didn't help with this one, and I am very interested in how it got there.

After I had located all the stuffed animals in their precarious places, I figured it would be a good time to have a talk about being nice to animals. I called him and he came out from the laundry room. I sat him down and told him that this is not how we treat animals, real or not. One of those father/son talks. I asked him why he was doing that to the animals, and he responded, "We were playing hide and seek." I asked about the animals' hiding places and the panda. Conner's response: "Stuffed animals can't walk, so I helped them, and the panda was it, silly." The reason for tying panda's hands: "To make it fair. He's bigger than them."



From Cathy:
What Pat didn't know when he wrote this was that earlier in the morning, Conner was making plans to cut the panda's head off with his chain saw. He settled for giving the bear a buzz cut and then cramming his much-too-small baseball helmet on its head.



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