Dear Zoo needs a rewrite

[fuffymeloncauli]

Why are all the animals male?
"I wrote to the zoo to send me a pet." Is this gramatically correct?

Or that "he" is a he?!

The tiger drank "all the water in the tap". So, assuming the house has mains water, that's all the water in the reservoir? Aquifer? Always annoyed me that.

This is an excellent interpretation.

If a zoo is running a breeding program, it makes sense to give away the male animals and keep the females. Just keep enough males to ensure genetic diversity.

What about it?
Sorry, I want you to get started 😂

Youre right, there's my internal sexism 😉 @Branconche - mentions that the other rabbit is elderly and female but not the sex of the child rabbit.

DS used to call giraffes ‘too talls’ because of Dear Zoo.

I've been driven round the bend for years by the cake in spot bakes a cake. They open the oven and say it's ready but the cake is an irregular blobby shape. That's not how cakes work.

For dear zoo, you can just pretend some of the animals are female.

This is exactly what I do. Down to the grumpy camel never being female. Also so pleased to hear my husband doing the same a couple of months ago.

Ha!

I thought that the tiger was a sarcastic and pass ag story made up by the mum when daddy asked for his feckin dinner.

He takes the point that Sophie has been a little shit all day and so be gets them all out of the house for sausages and chips and ice cream.

On the way home he buys some nice wine for mummy and they all have a much better day tomorrow.

🤣

I always thought the Tiger was much darker although Judith Kerr down played it.
I think the tiger was the German military and the terrified Jewish mother was scared in her own home. Dad came home and they left Germany.

She also wrote when Hitler stole Pink Rabbit about getting out in a hurry.

The Mr Men books have a lot of material to sort through...Tony Hawkes has dived deep

Thank you. I can sort of accept this.

I can. Until my child learns to read

I wish we would all just drop this smacking hands of people that wrote books or made television programmes in times gone by....

Times have changed. If the tiger who came to tea was written today , I'm quite sure it'd read very differently indeed. But it's a book that's many years old- it was normal back then in most households for a woman to wear skirts, keep house, not work and have the tea on the table at 5pm for 'her man'. Eye roll inducing to today's world , but you know, as they say, the past is a foreign country.

Anyway...the dad did take them all out for a sausage and chip tea... ? Quite generous considering..😊

No one is smacking anyone's hand. For one that's assault.

We're just commenting on the same thing you just said, times have changed.

I hope you're not serious with the metaphor I used being classed as 'assault' 😩

Maybe read more modern books if the past bothers you. We can't keep nitpicking and expect the past to be edited/deleted/cancelled/ rewritten to suit our delicate feelings. We all think we're so "right" in these current times.

Yes, that's grammatically correct.

Does the book mention the sex of the animals?!

Saw a similar thread about the large family books recently. I bloody love those. I get much satisfaction in saying ‘Because I want 5 minutes peace, from you lot! That’s why!’ I do it in a grumpy voice the kids think it’s funny. & they call the dad ‘so rude’ when he tells Lester to go away 😂

Dear Zoo,

Thank you for the monkey. It was very tasty.

you’re very certain in stating it as fact instead of just your opinion.
I don’t believe it is grammatically correct. However, ‘I arrogantly wrote to the zoo and kindly asked them to send me just one of their many residing animals, therefore bypassing all animal protection laws and regulations in order for highly entitled me, to keep an exotic animal as a domestic pet’ was probably just too long a sentence.

This is true. It doesn't. It refers to their pronouns. He/him.