The event of having live animals in our Main Street house backyard was not unusual for the Brittingham kids, especially my little brother Galen, he thought we lived on a farm and was destined to be a real Cowboy someday, after all he had the Cowboy hat, shirts, jeans and boots! Let me see if I can recall all the animals he brought home?
Galen was a regular at the Saturday morning Sale Barn that also was just off the square uptown within walking distance from our Main Street house. He brought home a Goat, Rabbits, a Duck, he collected 25 Turtles he kept in an old tractor wheel and 2 Ponies. Mind you Galen was only 9 or 10 years old! He was like Opie running around Mayberry.
After that a Pet Store opened uptown and had a Monkey, Galen tried to talk Dad into getting him the Monkey but instead they came home with a Raccoon!! He had the Raccoon in the living room and it got mean, it was hissing and went wild so that Raccoon got let loose outside of town somewhere!
I had a pet Peigeon named Homer, he always came to our laundry room window at the back of the house and I fed him. Then my Mom would let him into the laundry room. I would take him into the living room on my shoulder and I would talk to him and he would "bird talk back" he was so cool. One day he went missing and my friend Debbie and I found him at the bottom of the neighbors trash can. It had rained and he got caught by a dog.
Galen did not go on to be a Farmer or big time Rancher, not even a Veterinarian, he did become an Attorney so in his practice I hope he helped someone with the city ordinances that pertain to keeping farm animals in your back yard in the city!
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