But the Ninja Turtles Need Pizza

 When my boys were little, they were obsessed with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!  We had every turtle created with all of the unbelievable accessories.  Belts, knives, helmets, and whatever else a turtle needed to take over the world.  But there was one thing that I did not have and that was the sewer for them to live in.  So these poor guys had to live in a toy box, which I'm sure they were not accustomed too.

There was one thing I knew about these turtles, they loved their pizza, and so did my kids.  If dinner was not ready or it looked like mom may order out, PIZZA!!!!  was the tribal call.  Sometimes they got it, sometimes not.  (I love to cook so mostly they got what is better known as a HOME COOKED MEAL)!

One evening when pizza was a possibility, they were supremely excited, about the pizza not the style, LOL....so Cheese and Pepperoni it was.  Little did MOM know, they were saving some of the pizza for their turtles....their plan was to feed their Teenage Mutant Ninja's what they had left, but then head to the bathroom and send some down for the local TMN's that lived in the sewer!!!  I heard them laughing and talking so I left them alone, no one was fighting, no one was crying.  Time for mom the clean the kitchen.  THEN I heard it!!!  WATER pouring...where was it from?  To my not so great surprise, the TOILET!  They had overflowed the toilet with pizza leftovers they were sending to the turtles in the great abyss.  Now came the crying, the fighting, it was me!  Fussing at them and crying because I had to clean the bathroom too!

I asked my little Turtle lovers what the heck they thought they were doing?  They told me that the Ninja Turtles were hungry and they had promised to feed them the leftovers.  I asked them when did they talk to these Ninja's?  With cute little smiles, and sheepish grins, they told me they have conversations with them every day at 3, when they came on the TV.  Of course they did!!  Sheesh!!  

Well I cleaned up the pizza and toilet mess, cleaned the kitchen, cleaned the kids, cleaned my self after that fiasco....sent them to bed and NO MORE PIZZA for a very long time!!  Do I miss those days?  ABSOLUTELY I do.  I don't want to do them again anytime soon, but my fear is now that my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle lovers have grown up, they plan to supply me with a new chain of turtle lovers!  And they have started.  So I may be cleaning up Grand baby turtle loving pizza messes for a long time to come!

What Did You Just DO!!!!!!!

 What did I just do you ask?  I just pulled a tape worm out of the kittens backend!  Yes I did!  I pulled a tapeworm out, not barehanded mind you, all gloved up, but still GROSS!!!

This is how it all started.  We got a new kitty from a garden center, they had found the kittens under some trees that they were about to use for landscaping.  They caught the kitties and the mom and placed them for adoption.  So, of course, I just can't help myself, I had to run over and get one!  I mean a FREE kitty, come on!!

We brought this beauty home, he had a very dark chocolate coat, beautiful and shiny, so we named him COCO.  Right?  Great name!  He was beautiful, but kind of turned out to be a butt!  

I took a good look at him, then took him to the Vet to be checked out and given all of his proper shots.  Well to my dismay, he had ringworm, tapeworms, and a host of other issues going on.  At the time I was pregnant with number 7 child, so I needed a kitten with a host of problems too!  We started him on all of his meds and had to isolate him so none of the kids (or myself) would get ringworm.  He was pretty feisty and would yell at me to come feed him or clean his litter or whatever else he wanted.  Catnip, a toy!  He was pretty bossy.  

He finally was showing signs of healing, the ringworm had healed up so he could now come out and play, this did take several days, so he was totally excited to come play in this houseful of craziness.  He ran and played, ate and drank, hid and jumped out at us just to see our reactions.  He was so cute and so much fun.  Then one day, he was eating right next to me as I was doing dishes and cleaning the kitchen.  Low and behold, I look down at him and see something hanging from his backside (i.e. BUTT) so I picked him up to see what it was.  GAH!!!!!! IT WAS THE TAPEWORM!!!!!  So of course I yelled out and the kids and my hubby ran in to see what the excitement was all about.  They all screamed and laughed and sort of got sick.  As did I!  But who gets to do the BUTT DUTY????  Me of course!  I had my hubby hold him with his booty facing me, and I proceeded to pull a 3 FOOT LONG tapeworm out of his A$$.....It was all I could do to keep dinner in, but I was laughing so hard I could barely see I had tears in my eyes.  The kids were screaming and making vomiting noises, and my husband, well just thank God for him, he kept ahold of that little Coco and let me pull, it came out completely, everyone survived, no one threw up! Thank goodness, I didn't need anything else to clean up, and Coco went on to live an amazing life with us and new dogs and new fish (which he dumped over a few times)....THE ONLY THING THAT DIDN'T SURVIVE WERE THE GLOVES....they had to go BLAH!!!  LOL

I'm sure there will be more pet stories, but this one just came to mind....HAVE A GREAT DAY!