The joys of having pets

This morning I was cooking breakfast in the kitchen and the boys were playing outside while Kaylie played in her exersaucer. I heard Rex yell to the kids, "Ry-ry! Colty! Meowzer caught you a lizard!!!" Meowzer has been known to bring us "presents" if we get mad at him or if we run out of his food. (We figure he thinks we're struggling to feed ourselves, thats why we can't feed him so he brings some food to help out)

I thought to myself "ugh I SOOOO don't want my kids playing with a dead lizard" I figured they'd look at it and poke at it with a stick, as boys and grown men tend to do. A few minutes later Rex came in the kitchen and said that Ry and Colty were playing with a lizard. "Are you kidding me? it's alive?!?!" Apparently Meowzer really DID catch a lizard.

Meowzer was sitting on the grass and called out to Rex. Rex went over to see what he wanted and saw that he was holding a small alligator lizard under his paw. When Rex called to Ry and Colty and they went running Meowzer released the poor little guy and he tried to escape. Too bad for the lizard Ry caught him. The boys held him and carried him around the yard for a while, until I called them to come in for breakfast. Ry said he wanted to keep him and I told him he had to put him back in the grass so he could go back to his mommy and daddy. Ry said "but he IS the daddy or mommy!" so I told him that he better put him back so he could get back to his babies, and Ry still didn't want to put him back, so I tried to get Ry to understand that he wouldnt want someone to take his daddy away from him and never let him go. That message hit home so he put him in the grass to wash up for breakfast