Pet

What was the name of your favorite pet? Why was it your favorite?

Mitzy was my favorite pet. Our parents (especially Dad) didn't want our pets in the house, but Mitzy got by disobeying the house rules much better than the four Kendall kids did! Perhaps her disobedience was one of the reasons why we liked her so well.

She had several litters of kittens, so that we learned from her some of the basic facts of life. One of her personality traits was strong perseverance. If she was lucky enough to get into the house and to find the closet door in our patents bedroom open at delivery time, she would joyfully give birth to at least four kittens right there under Dad and Mom's clothes! And when we would dutifully move that tiny quartet to an equally nice nest outdoors, she would stubbornly return her family - one at a time and by the neck-to that favorite closet upstairs. I think her middle name was "Never Give Up"!