Don’t Cage Her

“I don’t like it when Mommy puts me in a cage.  I get scared.”

This is what I heard the other day.  Kind of took me aback for a second.  Just as it was dawning on me that Elaina and I were getting out of the car to take Olyvia into the vet, and Olyvia was in a cat carrier…which is very like a cage….

“I get scared when Mommy puts me in a cage and takes me to the vet.”

Nice empathy there for Olyvia.  Not something for Elaina to say to her teacher or the adoption agency’s social worker, though.