You just had to be thereI wish i had a pet. Well, I have animals. Fish to be exact, but they aren’t really the most affectionate and fun pets are they? I mean, watching them swim back and forth around their bowl or tank just depresses me and makes me feel repressed and boxed in. Forever swimming back and forth. When I was younger I always begged my parents for a puppy or any kind of cute furry animal. Regardless how much I pleaded I always received the same answer. “No”. My Dad would always say,“If you can barely look after yourself how could you look after a dog? You have to pick up his shit, feed him, clean him and take him for walks. You can barely do any of those yourself.”I spontaneously bought an Axolotl , because I thought it’d be cool. It was the most badass pet I could ever dream of. I named him ‘Oscar’ after Will Smith’s character in ‘Shark Tale’. I’d feed him and watch him for hours on end. Then, one day, the inevitable happened. I had some friends over and I left them alone with Oscar. Now till this day I still find it hard to fathom, but apparently, my friend reached into the tank and touched Oscar on the head. After that ‘encounter’ Oscar started getting sick and then one day after school i returned to see him belly side up in the tank. I realised at that moment I was more than capable to look after a pet. Hell, I could look after an army of pets if i had the time and arms, but the one thing that dragged me down, the one thing that would end my puppy army would be my mates. My pet killing mates.That’s why I don’t have pets, because sadly, I have dumb friends who I love.Fuji 200 / MG-1

You just had to be there

I wish i had a pet. Well, I have animals. Fish to be exact, but they aren’t really the most affectionate and fun pets are they? I mean, watching them swim back and forth around their bowl or tank just depresses me and makes me feel repressed and boxed in. Forever swimming back and forth. When I was younger I always begged my parents for a puppy or any kind of cute furry animal. Regardless how much I pleaded I always received the same answer. “No”. My Dad would always say,

“If you can barely look after yourself how could you look after a dog? You have to pick up his shit, feed him, clean him and take him for walks. You can barely do any of those yourself.”

I spontaneously bought an Axolotl , because I thought it’d be cool. It was the most badass pet I could ever dream of. I named him ‘Oscar’ after Will Smith’s character in ‘Shark Tale’. I’d feed him and watch him for hours on end. Then, one day, the inevitable happened. I had some friends over and I left them alone with Oscar. Now till this day I still find it hard to fathom, but apparently, my friend reached into the tank and touched Oscar on the head. After that ‘encounter’ Oscar started getting sick and then one day after school i returned to see him belly side up in the tank.

I realised at that moment I was more than capable to look after a pet. Hell, I could look after an army of pets if i had the time and arms, but the one thing that dragged me down, the one thing that would end my puppy army would be my mates. My pet killing mates.

That’s why I don’t have pets, because sadly, I have dumb friends who I love.

Fuji 200 / MG-1