I agree---some parents get very touchy.
I am not a teacher, but run a small animal sanctuary. The local Brownie pack used to visit once a year, when i would introduce them to the animals, let them cuddle kittens or whatever was here, and tell their story of what had happened to need care.....and I always introduced them to Beau, the turkey in my avatar, and tell them his story.
Beau fell off a lorry on the Forth Road Bridge on his way to be slaughtered, aged about 12 weeks. The workmen on the Bridge stopped the traffic to rescue him, but the vets didn't expect him to survive because he weighed 44lbs and his legs couldn't bear his weight
. He did though
and became a gentle ambassador for his kind, winning the hearts of all who met him. A lot of those Brownies went home and announced they were becoming vegetarian after meeting him-----------but then one year a mother complained because her daughter had burst into tears at the sight of the Christmas turkey and refused to eat it. The mother claimed
I had ruined their Christmas. So the Brownies don't come here anymore.
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