[lit-ideas] Re: English Pubic Schools
- From: Erin Holder <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:28:35 -0500
My brother made us bury his gerbil and give it a funeral. We put it in an egg
carton and burried it in the garden. He wanted us all to sit Shiva, but you
have to draw the line somewhere.
Erin
Quoting JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx:
> You should get another. Lucy is the first dog I've really loved since my
> wonderful collie/hound mix...he was such a good pet. Died of old age. And
> I
> have tended in the past to ridicule slightly those people who treat their
> animals like people ....but Lucy is such a wonderful companion; I take her
>
> everywhere in the car with me, and even let her sleep on my bed (an absolute
> no-no
> in general) when I had the flu. She so absolutely has her very own
> personality. Sometimes I think animals are nicer than people. My daughter
> would
> certainly say so. One of her mice recently had babies and one of the tiny
> things
> (ugly as all get-out, pink, hairless, worm-looking) died. I told her to
> toss it in the trash. She was outraged and insisted on a full burial. ("If
> you
> had a baby, Mom, and it died, would you want someone to throw it in the
> trash??"). Of course this is the same child who begged me, years ago, when
> I
> swatted a wasp in her bedroom, to "make it alive again, Mommy, make it alive
>
> again!".
>
> Julie Krueger
>
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