What can hatch from an egg?

[Anonymous]

We have a decorative glass or marble looking egg that I bought at some store. So I told DD something will hatch. Maybe a crocodile, maybe something else.

She's been waiting for it to hatch. Is there something I can buy at a pet store that I can pretend hatched and release it out into the back yard?

[Anonymous]

but the egg will stay intact...

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

I hate to break it to you, but animals don't exist to amuse your child.

Especially baby animals.

Especially animals you can buy from a store, which generally aren't something generic from your backyard, hence the reason for a special store.

[Anonymous]

A platypus

[Anonymous]

How old is dd? Just tell her you were joking. Then read a book about birds or hatching or whatever.

I am refraining from adding rude or nasty comments to this one, but it's seriously killing me...

[Anonymous]

How about a stuffed animal? This is pretend play, which to a child is very important. It doesn't have to be real to be fun for a child, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about a stuffed animal? This is pretend play, which to a child is very important. It doesn't have to be real to be fun for a child, OP.

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Leave the live animals out of it. Anything you can buy at the pet store will not be suitable to release/abandon in your back yard.

Buy a stuffed dragon or something equally fanciful.

[Anonymous]

Umm, don't buy a pet just to release. This is how we end up with gold fish completly destroying local lake native fish population.

I agree with using a stuffed or plastic animal.

[Anonymous]

Light a funeral pyre for your DH, tie a witch to the pyre, put the egg in too. Then walk in yourself, come out Unburnt, et voila! Dragon baby!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about a stuffed animal? This is pretend play, which to a child is very important. It doesn't have to be real to be fun for a child, OP.

+1

Leave the live animals out of it. Anything you can buy at the pet store will not be suitable to release/abandon in your back yard.

Buy a stuffed dragon or something equally fanciful.

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Please don't release a wild animal, OP. How about a dinosaur?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about a stuffed animal? This is pretend play, which to a child is very important. It doesn't have to be real to be fun for a child, OP.

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[Anonymous]

How about a small animal necklace?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Light a funeral pyre for your DH, tie a witch to the pyre, put the egg in too. Then walk in yourself, come out Unburnt, et voila! Dragon baby!!

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[Anonymous]

Why did you tell her that? Tell her it's decor.