I don't really like hermit crabs. I wasn't all too thrilled when my parents bought a couple of them for my daughter this past summer. I was even less thrilled when I was the one who ended up getting stuck taking care of them.
But I really feel horrible about what happened to one of them the day before Halloween.
The whole sad story is here:
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This is a sad, sad story. Hopefully that will teach your parents not to give your kids pets. (lol) We have a variety of fish, a firebelly toad, and a poor baby wren that fell out of its nest buried in our back yard. Right now, I live in fear that I will accidentally kill our remaining firebelly toad (Toady). No one else notices him, but I'm guessing they would notice if he was gone...
Oh Jen, I feel for you!!!! But try to console yourself with the thought that the hermit crab is in a happier place now with all his hermit crab friends having hermit crab parties with reggae music and silly hats and sun glasses ...
Aww! Poor hermit crabs. How did your kids react? It's always sad to lose a pet - when I was growing up, we had a little terrier-mix mutt dog who developed really bad cataracts and diabetes. When I was 13, we had her put down. It was sad, but she was extremely old and ill, and it was for the better.
This is a sad story, even if I think hermit crabs are probably not the best pet material in the world (said the woman who used to have an iguana as a child^). I like Laura's vision of a hermit crab afterlife though, that is the greatest! (and can I sign up?) But what really grabbed me was the post title: "On top of everything else, I killed the hermit crab". That is just NOT a sentence you see every day, to put it mildly!
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