Troy:
“No, I want to feed the animals at the zoo.”
Me:
“So, you want to be a zookeeper?”
Troy:
“Yes.”
Me:
“And help the animals?”
Troy:
“No, feed them!”
Me:
“You just want to feed them, and play with them, and train them?”
Troy:
“Mmmm, hmmm.”
Me:
“You don’t want to help them?”
Troy:
“I just want to touch them too.”
Me:
“To touch them. So, you don’t want to be a veterinarian?”
Troy:
“Eh, no.”
Me:
“You don’t want to be a doctor?”
Troy:
“No.”
Me:
“You just want to play with the animals at the zoo?”
Troy:
“Yeah. And touch a goat!”
Me:
“Just a goat?”
Troy:
“I can touch every kind of animal.”
Me:
“Well, what kind of animals do you want to work with?”
Troy:
“I can work with a lot of animals.”
Me:
“Do you want to work with the monkeys? Do you want to work with the cats? Do
you want to work with the snakes? The anteater, the sloth, what? What do you
want to work with?”
Troy:
“Uh. When I touch a snake, they might bite me. But I need to…but when they’re
hurt, I put a band-aid on their tail, so they can feel better.”
Me:
“Well, that’s nice of you.”
Troy:
“When a frog is hurt, then he can’t jump and…”
Me:
“…and we eat them?”
Troy:
“No! We don’t eat them!”
Me:
“We don’t eat frogs?”
Troy:
“No, they are nasty. They have flies inside them.”
Me:
“They do?”
Troy:
“Yeah.”
Me:
“Because that’s what they eat?”
Troy:
“Yes.”
Me:
“So, they eat flies, and then the flies are inside them, and if we eat the
frogs, we’ll get the flies inside us?”
Troy:
“Uh, huh.”
Me:
“I see.”
Troy:
“That’s because when the frog is hurt and can’t jump, I put a band-aid on him.”
Me:
“Where do you put the band-aid?”
Troy:
“I put the band-aid on his foot.”
Me:
“On his foot.”
Troy:
“Yeah, so he can jump really high.”
Me:
“I see. Do frogs wear shoes?”
Troy:
“No.”
Me:
“Oh, I thought maybe the shoes would help him jump really high.”
Troy:
“When the shoes…when they jump really high, they’ll go into the swamp and the
shoes will comes off.”
Me:
“Ah, so that’s why they can’t wear shoes, because they’d get stuck in the mud?”
Troy:
“No, they get…no, they don’t get stuck. They float away in the swamp.
Me: “Oh, I see.”
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