Pets

Tonight the guys and I were talking about food webs (what we used to call food chains back in the day) and were coming up with a bunch.  Like:

sun -> corn -> crows -> hawks
sun -> carrots -> bunnies -> foxes
sun -> algae -> little fish -> big fish -> SHARK

Then the youngest came up with sun -> oak trees -> mice -> cats.

"I don't think anything really eats cats," he said.  

"Except Alf," I replied without thinking.

They stared at me.  

"It was a show that I watched when I was a kid.  The main character ate cats."

They continued staring at me.

"No, see, he was an alien, right?"

They tilted their heads in unison and drew their eyebrows together.  

"Look, it was the 80's, ok?  Don't judge me."