STUPIDEST PET

I am sitting at gymnastics watching Grace work towards her Olympic gold medal, and decided I would write a short blog about the newest addition to our family. Sometime last year, Grace's Sunday School class had a class pet... a hermit crab. Grace won the drawing and got to take "Herman" home to live a happy life at our home. Well, not all the preparation in the world can prepare you for a hermit crab. So, without going into all the details Herman was dead within a few months. Very sad day at the Hofer home.

Fast forward to Grace's birthday and Aunt Amy decided to ease Grace's pain by giving her a new hermit crab. Not any hermit crab but a painted, jewel encrusted, hermit crab named "Jewels". Determined not to repeat the same mistake, Don has read up gone to Petsmart and I believe has become an expert on the care and feeding of hermit crabs. New shells, new food, new water, new bark chips for the box we keep her in. Evidently Jewels is very happy and now has burrowed herself into the sand and we have not seen her in weeks. We think she might come out at night, but neither Grace nor I have witnessed this event. So we put water and food out for the pet we never see....ever. We pay money to feed the pet we never see. It truly is the stupidest pet...ever. And yes, I realize that they are called hermit crabs for a reason.