Resolutions For 1996
by Scott Patterson
Originally published in The Cold Blooded News, Vol.23, No.2, February 1996.
Recently my wife told me "Quit raising the kids like your lizards." So, I have made the following resolutions for this year:
Top Ten List
10. I will stop sprinkling Rep-Cal on the kids' breakfast cereal.
9. I will stop searching the children's room for the best basking site.
8. When they ask for water in the middle of the night, I will stop giving it to them with an eyedropper.
7. I will stop wondering how my kids grew without shedding.
6. After a doctor's appointment, I will stop asking "What did the vet say?"
5. I will stop asking "Why don't the kids' appetites decrease in the winter?"
4. I will no longer make the kid do their homework under a Vita-Lite.
3. I will no longer refer to their beds as hide boxes.
2. I will no longer send them to school with sack lunches of leafy greens and calcium fortified crickets.
1. I will no longer roll SweeTarts by them so they can recognize their prey by its movement.
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