Easter Pets

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Giving children live Easter pets seems like a harmless thing to do,
but my experiences with them when I was a child tell a different story. Here’s my story.

 

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Easter Pets
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Baby Ducks

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When I was 6 years old, my sister JerrylDine and I got these soft yellow fuzzy live ducks from our parents for Easter presents. I loved my little duck and named him “Waddles”. I played all day that first day with my new pal Waddles and made a box with a soft blanket for him to live in. The second day, I was playing outside with Waddles and my sister brought her duck out to play with us. We were running around playing with them and JerrylDine accidentally stepped on Waddles and squashed his guts out. I was just devastated and heartbroken. My best friend had been cruelly murdered and died a horrible death. I cried all day long and we buried him in a box in the back yard. I was miserable for a couple of weeks after that. About a week after Waddles died the neighbors cat got my sisters duck and she went through some of the same misery I did. So the baby Easter ducks that were supposed to bring us joy and happiness had succeeded in making us miserable for an extended period of time.

 

 I loved my little fuzzy yellow duck named Waddles until he was accidentally squashed to death by my sister JerrylDine.

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Baby Chicks

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When I was 8 years old, my sister and I got these cute little fluffy chicks from our parents. They gave me a baby chick dyed blue and my sister a chick dyed pink. The first day I had my blue chick, I was laying in the grass in the backyard letting the chick walk on my body. He climbed onto my face and the first thing he was to take a crap right on my lips. After spitting and washing my lips with copious amounts of hose water, I was stupid enough to lay back down on the grass and let the chick walk on me again. He made it back to my face and I was watching him closely with my eyes. He must have thought the iris of my eye was something good to eat because he pecked me right on the eyeball with that sharp little beak. This was very painful and put a deep scratch on my eyeball. The injury hurt a lot for a full week. For about two weeks after that, it felt like I had a big grain of sand in my eye with constant irritation. I gave my chick to my sister the day he pecked me in the eye. A few weeks later they out grew the box in the house and she took them to the barns near our house and put them in with the rest of the chickens. So again the baby chicks for Easter that were supposed to make me happy had dealt me weeks of misery and pain with my eye..

 

 

Here JerrylDine you can have my chick too. This little peckerhead pecked me right on the eyeball.

 

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Baby Bunnies

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When I was 10 years old, my parents gave my sister and I each a soft fuzzy baby bunny for Easter. We had a lot of fun playing with them in the house for a few weeks until my Dad started finding a lot of rabbit pellets in the house and he told me to build a cage and move them to the back yard. I spend a couple of days scrounging up materials and building the cage. I moved them to the back yard and had to feed and water them every day. These guys had become a lot of work to take care of. In about four months they had become huge Godzilla rabbits and they attacked me trying to bite the hand that feeds them. They nipped me a couple of times bringing blood so I out smarted them and wore a pair of leather gloves when I fed them. They bit right through the leather glove and took a big hunk of meat out of my hand. That night, someone left the door to the cage open and they disappeared forever. I wonder who could have left that gate open? Heh heh heh.

 

It’s hard to believe these cute little balls of fur could turn into Godzilla rabbits biting chunks of meat out of my hand.

 

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Summary

 

Parents please don’t give your children those cute little Easter pets for Easter gifts. Instead give them a soft fluffy stuffed duck, chick, bunny, or some other animal. This will surely make them happy and will likely prevent the weeks of misery that the live pets can cause.

 

One of these stuffed pets will make your children happy without the possible misery that can result from live pets. 

 

 

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Thanks for reading Easter Pets,
Bill