Have told this story before elsewhere in the forum but it still kinda fits here.
Last Christmas season we had both sets of my nieces and nephews (2 each) over and of course they all wanted to see my BP Zebes.
Fascinatingly, the girls were far more enamored with him, the eldest (she just turned 13 last month) in particular constantly asking me the whole visit if she could hold him. At one point I allowed her to hold him for a little while on her own and he just settled right down in her hands. I of course made it clear that he was to be held only once a day and made sure they were gentle and quiet with him, but it was wonderful that they were so eager to interact with what's normally such a misunderstood creature while answering as many questions they had about him as I possibly could.
I chose a BP partially with visiting kids in mind given their placid dispositions, and Zebes has surpassed that expectation. I couldn't be more proud of my boy for being a shining ambassador of his kind to the next generation.
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