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Ponies rule! Dolls drool!

(A conversation between lengli's & Renee's 4-year-old selves)

4-year-old lengli: I love My Little Pony! This one is named Merriweather and she's a Sparkle Pony and she's my favorite because she can fly. I like to pretend the bathtub is a pool and then we have a pool party. She's the most beautifulest pony I've ever seen and I love her.

I hate dolls! And I hate babies! My grandma once gave me a doll for my birthday and I told her I hated it, yuck! They're ugly and stupid. Animals are better because they're pretty. My neighbor's cat sleeps in our sink. It's funny.

Doll clothes rule! Naked Ponies drool!

4-year-old Renee: Nuh uhhh! How come your ponies are always naked? You don't get cool clothes to put on them...that's BOR-ING. No one likes naked things. My mom says I can't be outside naked and she tells me not to play with my Barbies when they're naked. She bought me lots of clothes for them. Even little Barbie clothes hangers! Besides my Barbie can ride your Pony so that means it's better. Mom says I shouldn't let the Pony ride my Barbie though. Especially if they're both naked. And Ponies are always naked. Ew.

I love my Barbies. I hate your Ponies. But I like being naked. Mom said I should stop saying that.

Dinner for pets....

....Or people.

Did it ever strike you as being really odd that rabbits are often kept as both pets, which provide amusement and love to their owners, and as livestock, which provide their owners with tasty, tasty flesh?

To me, there's something very uncomfortable about playing with a cute, fuzzy creature one moment and seeing the cooked corpse of that same animal subsequently appear on my dinner plate.

But then I ran across Wysong Au Jus All Meat Canned Rabbit and found myself smitten with the cute little puppies and kittens that were depending of Mr. Bunny's flesh and entrails for sustenance.

So I got to thinking, if super cute puppies and kittens want to eat some of my lesser cute pets, I suppose I'm cool with that.

Ed note: While Bill doesn't mind feeding mammals to other mammals, he prefers not to eat them himself.