Last weekend on our way to Petco to get a Spongebob fish tank insert for the beta (lots of things wrong with that statement but I digress) she asked if she could get a lobster as we were getting ready to go.
Huh? Well...errrrr....ummmmmm...I....
Guess it'd be ok right? I mean the thing lives in a cage and will have to be separated from the cats but otherwise cheap enough, right? Food, filler stuff at the bottom, a cage that the cats can't get their paws through, an exercise wheel.
So we came home with Sugar. And also a Krusty the Krab restaurant for the fish tank.
I picked the name Sugar because she looked like a mix of brown sugar with a stripe of white sugar. Anna picked her out of a bunch.
We warned her that Sugar will bite. Inevitably and repeatedly.
I've been in Huntsville Alabama all week so I only hear the stories. Sugar has been very patient with Anna except for the time Anna reached in and grabbed her while she was sleeping. She bit, Anna dropped her, and Sugar scampered under the dresser, where Anna proceeded reach under for her...and got bit.
Also there was the time Sugar thought Anna's finger in the cage was a carrot, thanks to week-long carrot-in-the-cage-conditioning.
Youch!
There were tears followed by much forgiveness. Apparently Sugar now has a little portable cage so she can join Anna at the clinic in the afternoons. And Paul bought into that!!
Sugar will be sleeping in Anna's room I guess. But there's the whole need to lock Sugar away so the cats don't eat her. Tricky...
The poor creature...
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