Yesterday morning we found Buttercup not moving in her box. She is actually Gibson's snake and he was very upset. As soon as he heard that she might not be with us, he ran down the stairs and picked her up out of the box. He was straightening her out, crying, and doing everything but mouth to mouth to try and bring her back. He wanted us to rush her to the vet's office. It was very sad. We had a small funeral for her in the backyard. (Gib keeps digging her back up to make sure that she is still there.)The other kids were pretty upset as well. The tears were falling pretty fast. Every time everyone would start to calm back down, Hayden would break in with, "She will always live in our hearts." or "We will never have as a good a pet as Buttercup." or "She will live forever in heaven." and everyone would start up again. It was a cry fest of epic proportions. Shane was trying to get everyone to calm down and started making promises of another pet to replace Buttercup. I was shooting daggers at him with my eyes.
Hayden also pointed out to everyone that we went from having four pets to just one. That went over with lots more crying. (We let the two turtles go before we moved because they were getting so large.) So for now, we are back to just having Jones (the dog). We'll see if we add to our family again.
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I know it's not funny but this totally made me laugh mostly the kids reactions of everyone crying. Poor Buttercup but that snake had one loved life!
This made me laugh too.. Poor Gib!!! RIP Buttercup
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