A proud dad moment

[michaelh]

My 9 and 7 year old sons caught a medium size skink in tha garden on Sunday morning. They begged me to keep it and as I had been being a bit of a grump for the last few days I said yes.

It was a nice animal about 10 inchs and very well coloured. I sent them inside to put it in a container and then to come back out and start looking for food for it. My plan was they would get bored turning over every rock looking for insects and decide themselves that it was best to let it go and look for itself.

After 15 mins they were still inside so I went to investigate.

Well I finally found them in their bedroom with the first aid kit spread everywhere. The skink had dropped its tail. Their was a tear in the youngests eyes as my eldest held the skink and he was trying to apply a band aid to re-attach the tail.

I explained what had happened and they all cheered up. That afternoon after enjoying a few small roaches the shorter but still full of life skink was released.

Lessons learned all round.

Michael

 

[moosenoose]

Priceless LOL thats what it's all about.

 

[JeffHardy]

A nice story.

 

[basketcase]

haha thats hilarious!

"oh no mr skinks tail fell off, quick get the first aid kit!"

 

[Tommo]

lol. i bet it didnt help that the tail was still moving

 

[jimmy_the_kid]

ha ha ha wait ur kids are 9 and 7 i was over it b4 i was 2 hasnt it eva happened to them b4 wat do u do lock them up 23 hours a day ha ha ha im glad im not a father i know wat a little sh*t i can be and i got a hunch if i eva have kids they r gunna be just like me unfotunatly i can remember till i was about five i would pick skinks up by the tail and if it broke off in it went yummy

 

[michaelh]

yeahJimmytheyareusetothelittleonesbutnotonethatbignormallytheycantcatchthebigones.

For everybody else,

Yeah Jimmy they are use to the little ones but not one that big, normally they can't catch the big ones.

 

[jimmy_the_kid]

hey i resent that im proud of my spacing its the only punctuation i know he he he its not my fault im dumb or is it no its not its urs

 

[michaelh]

mate Im just clowning around bored at work, dont take it seriously I should have used one of those smiley things.

 

[jimmy_the_kid]

i know i wasnt serious im clowning to if i got upset every time sumone made a post about my lack of punctuation i would be an emotional reck

 

[africancichlidau]

That explains it then

 

[instar]

AWWWWW!!! thats the cutest thing ever, dear little fellas, good on em, they like herps, and care about them. Little champions Daddy!

 

[sxereturn]

I pay my 6 year old niece $2 per skink she catches me...it works out well, she makes $10-20 a week, and I don't have to look like an idiot chasing the pricks.

 

[dobermanmick]

at that price i would rather look like an idiot .
in summer that could become costly

 

[sxereturn]

There's a limit of 10 per fortnight. I live on a main road...always get beeps when I'm frantically chasing something that is invisible to the driver...

 

[africancichlidau]

Nah Dobby, he probably breaks her ankle each summer to save some cash

 

[dobermanmick]

:lol::lol::lol::lol: that would be funny

 

[earthmother]

Aw They tried to fix it.

I spent alot of my sons youth with Blues on my pillow and frogs in my sink, waking to a beardie baby looking me in the face. It's priceless.
Em