The Werewolf Foot

As Troy was having his breakfast this morning, I turned on a cartoon called “Cracke.” It follows a lone chicken that has a series of misadventures while trying to protect her eggs. Usually, something or somethings bad happen to her as she sacrifices herself, placing herself between her eggs and the dangers of living in the desert.

In the episode this morning, she lays down behind a rock to sleep. As she dozes off, the clouds part and a full moon is on display. It’s magical light touches her foot, the only part of her visible from behind the rock. Suddenly, her foot mutates and grows into a vicious monster foot. It opens its claws into a crude “mouth” and howls at the moon. It then starts to crawl towards the eggs.

At this point, the chicken wakes up, sees what the monster werewolf foot is doing, and rips it off. Tossing into a bunch of cacti, she huddles protectively around her eggs. What she doesn’t realize is that there is an unsuspecting rhinoceros in the cacti that promptly gets eaten by the foot. The next morning the chicken finds the engorged foot lying next to a rhinoceros horn.

Troy fell asleep during the car ride in this morning. This is very unusual, so I assumed he must be really tired. I kept the car quiet and let him sleep as long as I could. But I had to wake him when we got to the daycare. He awoke with a start and blurted out, “The chicken foot turned into a werewolf, dada, and it ate a rhinoceros!”

I couldn’t help it, I just started laughing. I said, “Yes, it did.”

He started laughing too, and he said, “That’s very funny!”