Ode to the World’s Most Preposterous Pet

I love having pets. I’ve always had as many pets as I was allowed at a given time. When I was a child, that was zero. My mother wasn’t a pet person. She also wasn’t really an offspring person, but that’s the subject of another article.

When I became an adult I immediately got cats, because cats are very low maintenance and anything I had to come home and walk constantly just didn’t fit in with…