Here Kitty - Kitty.

Growing up we always had some sort of pet in our home, rabbits, hamsters, birds, chimpanzees, dogs and the ever-preset cat that no one ever knew just how she got there, but she quickly took over the house and liked to pee on my Father’s favorite chair, we children loved her.

I feel some people go just a little too far when selecting a family pet, as this family in last nights headline, Kentucky Family Fights to Keep Pet Lion. It seems this family in a small Appalachian town should win the strangest pet of the year award with a full-grown lion for a pet.

The owners purchased the lion or Kitty as they named him, three years ago, when he was a 5-pound cub at a flea market. Of course, most of us have seen a lion cub on television and they are so cute and cuddly, that is until they mature and are capable of taking down an elephant before breakfast, or is that for breakfast, in any case, he is full size now.

His cute, tiny little purr is no longer music to the ear, now it is a lour roar and some residents are not too happy. Time and the law will decide on little Kitty and until then he is part of the family. I hope they keep him well fed and the mail carrier does not turn up missing.