No lizard No cat

My children have been begging for a pet daily for the past 6 months to a year and they think about it all the time and ways to convince me so I was not surprised at it coming up at dinner tonight at all.

Charlotte: Mom, we can’t have a dog.

Mom: Why?

Charlotte: Because they poops and eats your food.

Mom: True.

Charlotte: But we can have a cat!

Mom: How come?

Charlotte: Because they don’t poops and they don’t eat your food.

Mom: Well cats do poop but they poop in a litter box.

Charlotte: (Sadly) Oh then we can’t have a cat.

Mom: Why not?

Charlotte: Because we don’t have a lizard box.  And we don’t have a lizard.  So we can’t have a cat.