Our Family Is Growing

This month, our family grew has grown substantially. Our newest (and feather-iest) member is Birbie, a parakeet that our friends gave us. Apparently, the family had TWO parakeets and, for some reason, that made Birbie rather cranky. She became a biter (which, as many of us know, does not make one very popular in most social circles). The pet store owner assured the family that Birbie would become a delightful parakeet again if she lives in a loving home that is (except for her) parakeet-free. As a result, the family made some assumptions about the love--and parakeet--levels of our family and asked us if we would take Birbie in.

So we have become a part of a social experiment--to see whether parakeets can be reformed or whether, once they show a penchant for violence, they are destined for ongoing lives of brutality.

There is also a human-development experiment going on--to see whether children who beg and beg and beg their dad to allow them to have a pet will REALLY live up to the lofty promises they make about caring for said pet. As a first-year law student, I naturally had L sign a contract regarding pet care. I made sure that we included the consequences for breaching the contract, and that the "damages" would involve chocolate.

Would it be unethical for me to sabotage her from fulfilling the contract?

MOJ

p.s. I'll try to post photos of Birbie and the kids some time soon.