Someone was selling puppies and small rabbits on the street in Silom this week. They are outside California Fitness. If you hurry you can buy some.
Chalerm fell for the rabbits. Once the seller gave him one to hold he wanted to take it home. I said no. Who will look after it, I asked. It will pee and poop all over the place and I don’t want to clean up after it.
Last year it was aquarium he wanted. Having thought about it I said yes provided he cleaned it himself every week, but Chalerm forgot about it and it wasn’t mentioned again. But when he wanted the rabbit I reminded him that the only approved pre-approved pets were fish.
This morning Chalerm bought a small aquarium. He is setting it up as I write this.
I understand his desire to have animals. I used to have a large aquarium for some years, until I got tired of the cleaning and of replacing the dying fish and fish that “disappeared” in the presence of bigger fish. Then I sold it. I also had rodents for a while. Cleaning up is the bane of pet ownership but we’ll see how it goes. At least the fish won’t run around on the floor leaving stuff in the corners.
PS. Now Chalerm sat down on the glass top of the fish tank and broke it. He had put the top on a chair and forgotten about it when he took a break to watch TV. It made a scary sound. The maid is picking pieces of broken glass from the chair. Oh well…