
M. Edium met quite a few animals this weekend. At the dog park, he was too shy to make friends with any of the puppies, and the one who kept trying to herd us in with his family probably didn't help with all his barking and circling around. Then the next day, we all went to a "petting zoo," which turned out to be pretty disappointing. It was a two-day thing at a local superstore, consisting entirely of a calf, two goat kids, a couple of sheep, a few baby bunnies, and a Tupperware pan full of chicks with a screen over them. And I'm pretty sure eveything that had horns was doped all the way up to them.
He was a little disappointed with that, so later we went to the pet store to see some actual animals. We have kind of a routine there. We breeze past the fish tanks, glancing briefly at anything larger than his hand as we go by, in a rush to get to the tank at the end with the hermit crabs. After a brief conversation about why hermit crabs are so shy ("Well, that's why they're called hermit crabs"), we move on to the bird cages, and the little tanks with the guinea pigs and various rodents. After that, we go to the window of the grooming center to watch the dogs get their hair cut. Every last one of them, by the way, is always looking out at us like, Please get me out of here. This is so humiliating.
And the last stop is the little room off to the side where the cats are waiting for adoption. Today, there weren't any.
I'm not sure exactly how disappointed M. Edium was that there weren't any cats for him to meet, because I quickly put a positive spin on it. What it meant was that there weren't any cats here waiting for homes; all the cats that used to live in these little lockers now have families who love them.
As an adoptee himself, I think that meant something to him,
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