Took my daughter to a party today where they petted snakes, spiders, meerkats, lizards, and skunks. In between games of pass the parcel and the buffet. Wild.

Eep! Not petting spiders! In an Invertebrate Zoology lab in college, I had to pull a preserved spider out of a big jar to dissect. I chucked it across the room in a panic and hit a classmate in the face with it. Good times.