Re: I couldn't believe what I had just heard!
My mom didn't say anything. She doesn't like snakes, but she doesn't like them to suffer either. She just sat and listened while I tried to get information from this lady about the snake and how it died. I don't think my mom wanted to start anything with her friend. I didn't want to start anything either so I said "Well he could have found someone to take it instead of killing it." and we left it at that.
Its horrible the way some parents raise thier children. My children will not even get their first pet until they show me that they are capable of handling the responsibility, be it helping out around the house, helping me with my animals, ect.
Re: I couldn't believe what I had just heard!
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Originally Posted by ctrlfreq
The irony, of course, is she doesn't realize what this means for her when she gets into deep blue-hair territory and needs to be taken care of herself.
Good point! Heck I'm already sucking up to my four kidlets hoping that one of them will take care of me in my "golden years" (back up plan is to raise funds for a Home for Aged Herpers) LOL
All joking aside, this is just another sad example of a parent abducating their responsibilities to guide and raise up their children to be decent, responsible, caring and thinking adults. "It's the kid's pet, it's not MY problem" isn't the out some lazy parent should be taking and yes Christina, they should be very ashamed of their actions, but I'd put money on it that they never will be. Heck Mikey has a fish and a snake and we monitor his care of them on a daily basis. He is 6 and needs to be reminded to zip up after a bathroom trip....what in the world would make me think he should be left totally in charge of another living thing. Modelling good behaviour and being a pro-active parent certainly seems to have gone out of vogue hasn't it.
Re: I couldn't believe what I had just heard!
It sounds like they thought of the snake as a bug they could just squash or a rat they could exterminate. That, and/or an old computer console you can just leave to gather dust in the attic. This, quite literally, makes me feel sick.
