About our cats...

[la_rainette]

Rainette: Froglet, I've been thinking about getting a dream catcher - a REAL one, from the Native Canadian Center. Do you want to come with me and get one too?
Froglet: yep. OH WAIT - first I have to figure out where I am going to hang it in my room. I have to make sure the cat doesn't get to it.
Rainette: Oh yeah, that's right, he destroyed the other one...
Froglet: Mom. He ATE it. He pooped pink feathers for WEEKS.

Rainette and Froglet: *are watching TV*
TV commercial: "We only feed Einstein this awesome food! It's MAGICAL!"
Einstein: *is a happy-faced dog*
Rainette: Wow. They named their dog EINSTEIN? Leaves you to wonder what they expect from him, huh.
Froglet: Mom. We named one of our cats NAPOLEON.
Rainette: Ah. Right.
Froglet: Can you imagine him invading Europe? I mean, look at him, he is such a NICE cat. He'd be like, can I invade you? and they'd be like, NOPE, and he'd say, oh, okay then...
Rainette: OR he could just hop on their laps, settle down in a lovely ginger cat roll, look into their souls with his huge green eyes and purr. They'd never have the heart to push him away.
Froglet: I am not sure this...
Rainette: What's that on your lap right now?
Froglet: Yeah, okay. That would totally work.
Rainette: that makes your dad Russia. Only he has the heart to shove Napoleon off.

Comments

[tealin]

Haha, I used to make the very-not-real ones as piecework for pocket money in middle/high school. In retrospect, that was an extreeeemely shady operation ...

[la_rainette]

Huh. Only half of the entry came over from tumblr Oh well - fixed now :)

Hey, I am not very craft-y so I used to buy dream catchers because they were pretty - I am sure I would have bought one of yours :D it's just that I recently came across a post were native Americans were like, dream catchers are fine to owe, just make sure you get a real one, not a cheapo one that's made in China because that's not okay and I was like... "oh shit" *grins*

[tealin]

... Or made in some suburban basement by a teenager listening to the World Service overnight because it's too hot to be awake in the daytime. ;) Srsly though, there wasn't anything un-shady about that deal – the layers of wrongness only started at the cultural appropriation...! (they were fun to make, though.)

Thanks to your amendment, your family now adds significantly to my hope for the future of humanity.