Mama Diaries

Saturday, April 14, 2012

And Then There Were Twenty-Six

Twenty-six pets, that is.  Bad news here at my abode.  Do you remember the test tube tadpole that arrived in the mail?  He died.  I found him floating upside down in his habitat today.

My poor son was devasted.  He shed quite a few tears over that little guy.

"Can we get another tadpole from Grandpa's pond when we go to visit him?" he asked.

"Buddy, I don't think we'll be transporting a tadpole four hours in the car.  I think we'll just leave that tadpole at Grandpa's house."

He wasn't very happy. 

Poor kid.  In the last couple of days, he lost a frog and a tadpole.  I hope the hermit crabs don't get any ideas! 

13 comments:

  1. Poor tadpole, suriving the mailman yet not the tank. That is life sometimes I guess.

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  2. Poor little guys. The tadpole and your son.

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  3. How on earth do you manage 26 pets? Sounds like QUITE a handful!
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    1. A lot of those are fish. With the exception of the dog and the cat (who is outside all the time), they are all contained.

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  4. Poor little guy! Poor tadpole and frog, too. My kids just finally got a cat after years of begging for another pet (our cats died two years ago). I don't think we'll be approaching 26 anytime soon!

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  5. Awww your poor son. I hope he feels better soon.

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  6. Awww, poor little guy - the tadpole and your son =(

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  7. I remember catching a tadpole for a kid who had come over to my home when I was 8. We put it in a jar and I poked holes in the lid for the drive home. 10 mins before leaving, he tripped, breaking the jar.

    Water everywhere and tadpole gone. Possibly squished.

    I was 7.

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  8. that is so sad. having gone through stuff like that lots of times when I was a kid, I was crushed reading that. Maybe you have the next Jeff Corwin on your hands!!

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  9. I'm so sorry. It's always devastating. I still get torn when a pet passes away.

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