Are inanimate pets still popular — you know, pet rocks and Tamagotchis?
Those seem to have fallen away. The pet rock was a joke from the 1970s. The Tamagotchi is an electronic pet that is often sold in small little units you can carry around like key chains. I’m not quite sure I understand them, I find them sort of creepy. You can’t cuddle it. And it’s this computer pet that if you don’t care for it, it will die. I suppose there’s a lesson there, but because it’s not a real creature, I don’t know how meaningful that lesson is. Over the years, what sorts of animals have turned out to be huge mistakes as pets? I wouldn’t use the word “huge,” but there are exotic animals that should never be made into household pets. You’ll probably get mail from people saying, “I love my monkey,” but I’m not sure that primates should be kept as household pets. And a lot of reptiles have problems as pets. It’s hard for them to thrive, and they take a very long time to die, so people don’t even realize they’re not treating their reptile well until it’s at death’s door. You als
Those seem to have fallen away. The pet rock was a joke from the 1970s. The Tamagotchi is an electronic pet that is often sold in small little units you can carry around like key chains. I’m not quite sure I understand them, I find them sort of creepy. You can’t cuddle it. And it’s this computer pet that if you don’t care for it, it will die. I suppose there’s a lesson there, but because it’s not a real creature, I don’t know how meaningful that lesson is. Over the years, what sorts of animals have turned out to be huge mistakes as pets? I wouldn’t use the word “huge,” but there are exotic animals that should never be made into household pets. You’ll probably get mail from people saying, “I love my monkey,” but I’m not sure that primates should be kept as household pets. And a lot of reptiles have problems as pets. It’s hard for them to thrive, and they take a very long time to die, so people don’t even realize they’re not treating their reptile well until it’s at death’s door. You als
