[you're so boring adjudicutie he's trying to get to know you before he falls heads over heels later this week]

I could never keep pets myself -- well, conventional pets, anyway, they die too easily! You know how it is, you blink and suddenly they're gone.

[Or, like, worse. By your own hand. Stuff like that.]

Not that the more... unique ones lasted very long either. A month or so at least, a few years at most. It depends.