About dogs and cats
What children wish for, mothers must achieve! And then they suffer.
Of course, Ivana, the mother of eight children, was faced with problems and requests known to every parent every day.
Her little son Ivo would wail: - Mom, mom, I really want a dog! – If Ivana, to silence her little son, hinted that his wish could come true, Nada would wail from the other end of the room with the greatest sadness: - Maaaamaa! If he can get a dog, why can't I get a cat!?! –
Ivo, in his high-pitched child's voice, would immediately give a counterargument: - But I will take care of my dog! I promise, I promise! –
However, Ivana, like all parents, once had to give in. And she immediately regretted it. So, complaining in her usual humorous way, she wrote the following in a letter to her mother:
- The animal mania that reigned here has probably reached its climax, and I have to constantly worry about that whole menagerie because I am convinced that the end of the four servants and the end of all the children's love would die of hunger. –