I know how you feel. There's been times in my life when my pets were the only living creature I felt like dealing with (thank gawd the dog I had in my teen years couldn't rat me out to my parents LOL).

We love watching our kids with the pets, especially the youngest. There's something so pure in a small child experiencing an animal for the very first time. We let our 4 year have Baby the bp on his lap yesterday for a few moments and his eyes just got huge! He kept repeating (in his words)...."she's tickling me with he's tongue!!!" (kid is as confused over this snake's sex as the rest of us I guess LOL). It was just wonderful to see him so fascinated with this new pet and have no fear at all.

Now if I could only get over my fear of big spiders I might be able to deal with my 13 year old son's request for his idea of a great pet *shudder shudder*


~~Joanna~~