Subj : Re: Someone just walked into the shop with a "pet" black squirrel. 3
To   : August Abolins
From : George Pope
Date : Wed Mar 01 2023 08:28:20

> Hi Wilfred...
>> Hi August,
>> On 2022-05-16 17:34:42, you wrote to me:
>>> "It Ends With Us" by Colleen Hoover, for his girlfriend. :D
>> I was wondering it it would be about pet squirrels... ;-)
>> Bye, Wilfred.
>I *did* suggest the doesn't just arbitrarily ask strange old men, "hey.. wanna
> see my pet squirrel?"   When he laughed, his squirrel popped out for another
> presentation.

My wife called our son's his "weasel". . . Before we taught him the anatomical  terms. . .

The danger in teaching cutesy nicknames for one's birth righted 'toy' is when a kid tells his teacher, "the gym teacher was rubbing my squirrel" his class  teacher might think nothing of another teacher touching a kid's plush toy he  brought to school that day, when it's actually evidence of a far more sinister  occurrence. . . :P 

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