Pet Story

The kids and I were living in a rental house when we got Pika, our first cat, the one pet we were allowed to have there. After we bought our current house, one of the kids’ first questions was how

I woke up at 4am to the sound of our two parakeets, Thunder and Clover, going crazy. My daughter calls it “helicoptering,” when they frantically flap their wings and fly all around like the world is coming to an end.