our lives in small town, East Africa

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

dragon and lyra

I'm pretty sure we're the worst pet owners ever. Ok, maybe we've just had bad luck.

Yes, we've had yet another pet funeral.

Actually, a double pet funeral.

Juma's two green anole lizards, Dragon and Lyra, died within a couple weeks of each other. Juma figures it was a communicable lizard disease. I doubt that, but whatever it was, we'll miss watching them chase crickets.

We always have a little funeral to help Juma cope and grasp, in his six-year-old way, a little bit about death. This time, we buried them in our backyard under a homemade gravestone.

(Juma thought the digging was a blast.)




Goodbye Dragon and Lyra!

2 comments:

Laura said...

this may sound insensitive, but it made me laugh when i read that another pet died. However I am sorry for your loss---again.

Sarah said...

Oh, I know, I know. We are no Rus-n-Kelly, that's for sure.

I'm not-so-secretly relieved to be pet-free for a while.