Don't tell PETA but....

We went to the carnival a couple of weeks ago and the boys played the game where you shoot darts at balloons. They each got to pick out a toy. My 3 year old picked a toy car. The 5 year old picked a pair of handcuffs. Yep. You already can see a bad story happening, can't you?

He tried to coerce his younger brother into wearing the handcuffs, but that didn't work. Next thing I know...there are TWO screaming boys and a CAT running at top speed through the house. The 5 year old has one handcuff on and the end is dangling.....

Hmm...I started running looking for the cat. The whole time I was thinking "oh boy..how do I explain to him if he killed the cat?" Luckily, I found the cat in the basement sitting relatively (relatively) calmly with a handcuff around his neck. I saved the cat...and then we had a LONG talk about how it is never a good idea to put ANYTHING around ANYBODY's neck. We got the cat from my mom. I sent her an email saying "Please let me come home. Love, Jerry" Jerry is the cat.

Tit for tat though....we have some angel fish in the house. We used to have two very large ones, but we left the house one Thanksgiving and when we came home we found out that our then 2 year old had unplugged the tank. Unfortunately for the fish, they didn't fare so well. We've spent the last 18 months with frogs, snails and newts...and finally decided we were ready for some more angelfish. The first two seemed to be doing well...and then this weekend one died. Why, you ask? Apparently angel fish are very fragile fish and can't handle noise...OR A CAT BODY SLAMMING THE TANK 50 TIMES A DAY. Seriously. It's a zoo here.