I go on about American animals that I like but so far
they’ve all been from my part of the country. That’s because I’m quite partial
to the Northwest. but there are other uniquely American animals (and when I say
that I really mean North American) that also captivate my imagination. One of
those is the armadillo. I can’t say I know a whole lot about them and I live where
there aren’t any so they have no sense of being a nuisance to me. They just
have that curious appearance of some kind of armored rodent. I’m thinking more
in line with a gopher. I think an armored rat would be terrifying and
armadillos aren’t quite so ugly. But, like I said, I live where there aren’t
any armadillos and they don’t present any sort of nuisance to me. So for me,
the idea of little armored gophers roaming the expanses of Texas seems kind of
romantic. I know that’s not how it is, but that is the truth of imagination.
And that’s just one thing an armadillo offers us Americans and that’s something
worth having around.
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