Dad I want a cat!

ANOUAR

           My nephew is 12 years old and he is in sixth grade. His name is ANOUAR ABDOUL SADATH. Anouar is 5 feet tall and a little chunky. He is really good at electronics. He loves playing games. Anouar has four electronic devices which are X box 360, wii, nintendo 3D and a kindle fire. Despite of his obsession of electronics, he also loves animals especially cats. It all started when I bought him a little fish, it was in a plastic container. To keep the fish alive, he was supposed to change the water very often. He did not do that and the fish died.

ANOUAR and his mom

           After that incident, he went crazy with frogs. Anouar wanted to have a frog so badly that he always bothered his mom all the time. He ended up getting a frog. After a couple of days, the frog escaped from the cage and ran away. His mom told me about the escape one night when I came from work. Anouar was so sad. After the loss of his fish and the frog, he started saying that he wanted a turtle. He would spent a lot of hours searching for companies who were selling turtles. One afternoon. when I was off  he finally found a website where he could buy the turtle and the company would delivere it. The small turtle was $30, the food and the cage were $ 20. The total was $50. He bothered his mom like all ways to use her debit card and bought the small turtle online. He was supposed to receive the turtle in a short amount of time, he waited and waited like a month. When he called them to know why they did not send his turtle , the company said that the turtle would be sent by plane that it would cost more money than before. Therefore, Anouar's mom got angry. She called them back and told them to cancel the transaction and put the money back in her debit card. She also said that, that was not part of the deal. His mom waited for another month again but the company did not do the refund. It was obvious that the company was fake. She went to the bank and explained the problem. The bank put the money in her account number and promised her to prosecute the company and get the money.

    One day we were home when I heard Anouar telling his mom that he wanted a cat. Her mom said no right away but he insisted, so she told him to wait for his dad, that if his dad approved he could get it.

            When my uncle came home from work that night, Anouar asked him and he also said no, but Anouar did not give up. The next morning he got a big picture of  beautiful cats and stuck it on the frig. His dad took it off. He took it back and put it in the living room against the wall right next to the curtains. He wanted everybody in the house to know how bad he wanted a cat, especially his dad. In every conversation, we had he would talk about how cute and smart were cats.


The cats picture in the living room.

         To make him forget the idea of having cat, his grandma told him a story about the cats who are taking young kids' intelligence when they play with them to much. It was sort of a witch craft story. He got scared. He came to me and asked if what grandma said was true and I agreed. Anouar did not buy it. He still loves cats, spending time online looking for cat videos, The most funny thing is that he still has the cats picture hanging on the wall hopping that one day his dad will change his mind and let him get a cat.