Hmm
When my parents moved into my childhood home the previous owner had left a chicken coop in the back garden. My parents knew nothing about raising chickens so they discreetly killed the chickens, and told me for the next fifteen years that a fox had broken in and got them. This theory was lent credence by the fact that foxes actually did break in and kill the neighbours' geese, because there was a forest at the end of the road and the foxes used to congregate there in great numbers. Still: I was denied eggs for breakfast during my formative years.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Thu 22 Dec 2011, 19:49, Reply)