Exotic Pets

This is relevant to the dinner party, but worthy of its own post. The hosts of the dinner party had gone through many different kinds of pets. One in particular was the Slow Loris. They are small, slow-moving primates, and very cute. One of the party guests later sent out a fact sheet she had found on the internet about the animals. Wayne forwarded it to me. I promised to stop asking for a puppy if he would get me one, paying no regard to the poisonous spit or the toxins in their forearms.

I have had interest in various other exotic pets before. For a while I wanted a Sugar Glider, but I was easily talked out of it when I read about how high-maintenance they are. Fennec Foxes also seemed cute, and many people keep them just like they would a small dog, but when I found that some of them do not house train very well, I gave up on that one, too.

I think what it really comes down to is not that I want to own any of these animals; I just want to play with them for a while and give them back to their owners, sort of like kids. Maybe what I really need is just a trip to the Houston Zoo.