ANIMALS OF COMPANY

The old Dona Maria went up one day to the mountain and came back with a box in which she had kept several wild bugs that made her loneliness more bearable. It happened then that a curious neighbor and something gossip wanted to know what was inside. Dona Maria told him but the woman understood something that had nothing to do with reality. From there, a tremendous confusion arose in the whole town that even alarmed the authorities. What was true of the contents of the mysterious old woman's box? "Pets" is a story built from a play on words that shows how much the perception of events can change as they go from mouth to mouth . These rhymed and humorous verses encourage readers to play for themselves by forming and distorting the language; a proposal that refers us to the work of classics such as Lewis Carroll.