Novi Pet Expo

Em and I spent the day at the Novi Pet Expo. If you know Em, you know she loves animals more than anything in the world. She looks at animals the way Jesus looks at people. She sees the good in every animal. It doesn't matter how ugly or old the animal is, scaly or slimy, she loves them all.

The Pet Expo was a collection of animal shows, rescue shelters, dog breeders and specialty animal training and toy groups. We spent three hours walking around the pet expo today, wandering up and down the aisles, back and forth, stopping in to see the same groups of pets 3 or 4 times each. You could pet all sorts of animals from dogs, to snakes and lizards. We even got our picture taken with a chimpazee, which was really cool. The dog on the left weighed 230lbs. It was huge!

There were a group of bird rescuers, all of them wearing these fancy bibs on their shoulders to prevent themselves from getting pooped on. Emily must have pet 100 different puppies, loving each one.

The snake on the left was a huge albino python and the collection on the right was a bunch of different kinds of snakes from another rescue shelter. She looked at every kind of snake. I'd be up for adding one of these to the Kurt family menagerie, but Cathie doesn't really like snakes, to put it midly (her exact words were, "If Dad had brought one home I would have taken the snake out and run it over with the lawn mower.")


She spent a while petting the greyhounds, and then we played with this sugar glider. It's kind of part squirrel and part bat, kind of a flying squirrel. The guy put it on the back of my hand and had me lift my hand above my head. It jumped off and flew to the guy, opening it's arms wide enough to glide.

This guy did some "magic tricks" and then brought out some pretty cool animals, like this crocodile, a cobra and a sloth.

We also found a bunch of groups that would be perfect for Ed, Stacy and their dog Justice. One group, the Dog Scouts of America, let you take your dog on different trips where you can both earn merit badges. Another group does choreographed dances with their dogs. Stacy would love this!

The more "interesting" group was the Fancy Rat association. They collect rats, love them and dress them up. I guess. They REALLY seemed to love their rats.