Posted by Catherine, the redhead mom blogger on May 22, 2008 in Parenting Drama
“Mom?”
“Yes?”
“Why does kitty have to get fixed?”
“Because it’s better for the cats health Brian and an un-spayed female cat can give birth to three litters a year, with up to six kittens in the litter … we don’t want her going through that. Let alone how difficult it is to give up kittens. I know you – you’ll want to keep them.”
“No, I’d help find homes for all of them …”
“She’s getting fixed – P E R I O D.”
[BIG BOY SIGH HERE]
“Brian, we went through this a few years ago with Boonie the dog and she is fine.”
“Well, she was never in heat.”
“How do you know, and why is that an issue?”
“If kitty was in heat, and those stray male cats did what you explained … then she could be pregnant already?”
“Maybe…”
“If she is pregnant the Doctors will still “fix” her?”
“Yes.”
“Then, the cat is having an A B O R T I O N tomorrow???”
“Uh.”
“Mom, we don’t believe in that do we??”
[BIG MOM SILENCE HERE]
Please write down the date and time. This is the first time in history the redhead was speechless.
Hmmmm … the New York Times link could be my closest bet.
You might wonder what moved me to search the Internet for a Teenage foreign language tutorial. It occurred just after overhearing the following conversation between Brian and his father:
“Dad?”
“Yeah?”
“Can I go over to Gus’ house sometime?”
“Who’s Gus?”
“This kid from school…”
“Do you know where he lives?”
“Yeah…”
Silence
“Well, where does he live?”
Silence
Silence
Silence
“Uhhhhh …. I think he lives really close.”
“Close?”
“Or really far … can we go by there?”
“And where would there be?”
“Dad! It’s not that difficult!”
He lost me at Gus, let alone the really close or really far part. I suppose we could just drop him off in the middle of nowhere and Gus might magically appear. Or, he could kick the heels of his skateboard shoes together three times and a magical woman in a pink dress with a Scarecrow, a Tin Man and a Lion could lead him to Gus’ house.
Or I could just make him take the clean dishes out of the dishwasher, feed the pets and take out the garbage.
I don’t need an interpreter to make him do that.
Gus, if you are out there … Brian is hoping you’ll drop your house in our backyard, thus killing the witch that is making him do chores.
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