Okay, don’t get me wrong, toddlers are cool and all. They’re fun loving, happy (evil) rugrats. They’re obnoxious, which is definitely a downfall. It was cute at first but after awhile it gets irritating.

But it doesn’t stop with us humans. Toddlers have a tendency to hit it off with the family dog or cat and not exactly in a good way. They are indeed harmful to pets. Personally, I think, they should be put under the “Keep away from animal” category. Hitting, punching, slapping, riding, mauling, jumping on, suffocating, etc. isn’t playful with the cute and cuddly pet.

When I was a toddler, maybe around three years old, I had a pet turtle. I don’t remember if we bought him or found him out in the wild, but he was my favorite little guy ever. I believe, I named him Jim but I don’t know, I was pretty young.

Anyhow, I decide it would be a grand idea to bring him out on our apartment’s back balcony and play with him there, and when I say play I actually mean torture him. So after a while I suppose I became bored and just decided it’d be an even better idea to push him off the second story balcony. Simply because I was an evil little brat toddler.

After, I realized that turtles shells aren’t really all that invisible as TNMT makes it seem. I started crying and whining that my turtle just jumped off the balcony. To this day, I will never forgive myself for doing what I did that day, but now I know Jim is in a better place and at least I wasn’t the only animal abusive toddler.