Ekaterina Volkova with her child: photo

Photo: Sergey Dzhevakhashvili

Kilogram of cares

- All parents read their children fairy tales about animals,They show pictures, but it’s one thing when a child sees a drawn elephant, and another when a real one appears. Lisa knows cats and dogs well. They live in our house. The cat Buddy has been around for a long time, he’s nine years old. And the dog appeared a month ago. My daughter asked for a puppy. Before fulfilling her wish, I prepared her. I explained that the animal needs to be looked after, cleaned, walked with. And if you don’t do this, Babay will come, take it away, and you’ll never see your Louis again! Lisa believes that there is such a creature that can take something away, and fairies sometimes leave her surprises for good behavior. Lisa has been inseparable from the first day with the Spitz Louis. She approaches the matter responsibly, protects, understands that the pet is not a toy. Once he made a puddle, I started scolding him, and my daughter came up and said: “Don’t scold me, I’m the owner, this is my son.” She eats with him, watches cartoons, even takes him to bed, but at night we take the dog away so that no one accidentally crushes anyone. Sometimes it seems like she bought a dog for herself. Kilogram – that's what we call it among ourselves, because that's exactly how much it weighs.1/7Photo: Sergey DzhevakhashviliPhoto: Sergey DzhevakhashviliPhoto: Sergey DzhevakhashviliPhoto: Sergey DzhevakhashviliPhoto: Sergey DzhevakhashviliPhoto: Sergey DzhevakhashviliPhoto: Sergey Dzhevakhashvili

Communication in joy

— At the zoo, animals come to life for a child,familiar from books. Lisa knows "The Wolf and the Seven Kids" well, but she looked at them and was surprised. The goat was standing with her kids, and they turned out to be not so tiny. "How could the wolf eat them?" she asks. She wanted to understand his real size, but the wolf, as luck would have it, hid. She promised that we would come here again soon and wait until he would walk around the enclosure. My daughter and I visited the zoo for the first time when Lisa was two years old. She is a hyperactive child. She started walking, running, jumping early. So we quickly forgot about the stroller. That's when we went to introduce her to the animals in real life. Lisa liked the animals, especially the horses. She thinks they are the kindest in the world. If she sees a pony, she immediately runs for a ride, and as soon as I turn away, she hugs and kisses it. She happily approaches the horses at the hippodrome, feeds them, and pets them. But I am a bit afraid, the fear appeared during pregnancy and has not gone away. At the zoo, Liza wanted to stand longer at each enclosure. She reproached me: "Mom, you need to be more attentive with children, and we run from cage to cage, I will not go with you anymore." She wanted to pet a lynx, a panther, and also a donkey. Liza was very impressed by the beak of a giant vulture. The huge bird seemed to freeze on purpose and stood in one pose for a long time so that it could be examined. My daughter thought the vulture was kind. And when we were walking to the exit, she wished to have a giraffe.