Every ‘normal’ kid has at least one standard pet of the dog, cat, rodent or fish variety. A lucky few have something a little more spicy, like chinchillas or tree frogs.
The very luckiest, those with the smuggest parents and the largest yards, throw roosting chickens into the menagerie. This is but a simple statement of fact, according to my daughter.
Those children who have no pets are school pariahs with zero friends and no hope of growing up to functional adulthood — also according to my daughter, who until recently was considering reporting me to the Geneva Convention for my continued refusal to get her a pet.
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