New Pet?

This was the conversation with Luke today:


“Mommy, I think we should have a raccoon as a pet. If we had a raccoon as a pet we wouldn’t have to worry about taking the trash out because it would eat all the trash. “

Pause

“But raccoons are nocturnal so we should probably put him in Marley’s crate at night so that he doesn’t mess up the house. You would be mad about that, right? I bet if we left him out during the night he would get into some of the food in the kitchen. The difference between our pet raccoon and Marley is that Marley sleeps at night like us because he is not nocturnal so we don’t have to worry about him walking around at night. Our pet raccoon would get into things during the night. Marley only gets up at night to throw-up sometimes. “

Another pause

“But wouldn’t that be cool to have a raccoon as a pet? Can we get one?”

Mommy: “Ask your father”