With plans to adopt a platypus or mongoose essentially stalled, I am now investigating alternative pet options.

Having recently seen a coyote by the side of the road, they look an awful lot like a dog – so they would be one consideration. That would help control the roadrunner population around here as well.

I suppose I could live with a bird, dull as they are, if it were an eagle or a hawk. I’d even be OK with a Peregrine falcon. A man could play “fetch” with an eagle or a hawk, if you happened to be throwing small rodents. An owl is out of the question – all that damn “who-ing”…I’ll tell you who – the chef who is about to prepare owl soufflé!!

Also out of the question – rattlesnakes, which is why I wanted a mongoose in the first place. Honestly, I still have yet to confirm that rattlesnakes are even indigenous to our area, but one can never be too careful where it concerns rattlesnakes.

Chow for now!!