I had one.
I taught it to sit and stay.
I bought a cheap knock-off from Junior Achievement. I have an excuse though – I was young and trying to get over on the one girl in that “company”.
Mine could roll over. Only pet I’ve ever had that could.
They should build a cairn on his grave.
You mean like this?
No, the first definition.
My pet rock had the mange. Bad. It was bald. Like George Castansa bald. Like George Castanas’s blind date bald.
Bald Jerry. BALD!
I got some Chia seeds and fixed the little fella right up though.
Thanks AD, while I am sad for Mr. Dahl’s family I will now have “I burn they dog” stuck in my head the rest of the day; or life.
I had a pet rock once. Took him down to the swimming hole one day.
Skip didn’t even make it all the way across.
i have a lovely usb pet rock (thinkgeek). he keeps the computer at work company when i’m not there.
I suppose you think he invented them just 6000 years ago too.
Wrong! Rocks evolved through a process of natural selection. Once they became domesticated and people made pets of them, then breeders went on to develop the many breeds of pet rocks that are known today.
In other news, the Catholic inventor of the Pet Flower has died, as has the Chinese Confucian inventor of the Pet Bowl of Crack Seed, Pack of Cigarettes and Bundle of Burning Joss Sticks.