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My mom turned me loose.

I collected animals from the canyon behind our house. Our house was known as, "The Menagerie," because of the hundreds of animals I kept. I raised toads, frogs, salamanders, turtles, toroises "torti?," guinea fowl, rabbits, hampsters, green iguanas, desert iguanas, a dozen snakes, a few other lizards, and then I got an aquarium...

I wandered the canyons, climbed the hills, road skates, then skateboards, then bikes, then gocart, then a minibke, then my uncle Richard gave me that VW van when I turned 15.

I'm really smart but I'm very gullible.

My favorite: "Washing the dishes right after you eat is good for your digestion."

Thanks mom.

Coyote age 18, considering podiatry?

Leslie and I were buddies from age 5 to 15. Our parents cxpected us to get married.

I received my first Kodak Brownie camera as a kid and took pictures of my tortoises laying eggs, and I got some fun pictures of my RED RACER SNAKE striking, mouth open and teeth bared directly into my camera lens.

If you don't know my childhood story, I was a gifted biologist in elementary school. I could tell you the sex of any reptile or amphibian. "Nature Boy."

My backyard was referred to as, "The Menagerie," by all the neighbors because i maintained almost 100 captured wild animals from 1962 to 1967. I was on a first name basis with the curators of the San Diego Zoo who sometimes took the biggest lizards off my hands. They traded one of my green iguanas for a chimpanzee from Hamburg, Germany.