Ginny and I had a cat Sputnik (or should I say she once had us..) who would bring us live gifts -- a snake, rats (and this was in San Francisco where snakes are not easy to come by!). Actually she meant for the snake to be a present for our newborn - she tried to put it in his crib. The way I figure it, the stores were closed, she didn't have any money anyway...so what else kind of gift could she give??

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