It WAS an adventure! From cute furry kittens and puppies from Helping Hands (which, hopefully, were adopted) to ferrets loaned to us by a trusting customer from her personal zoo of pets...  From a guinea pig named Pete to real, live velveteen rabbits... From peeping chicks to the famous Lucille Ball Python to rolly-polly eating box turtles to snappy crawdads... And from many hundreds of "kids" --babies to adults-- who only looked to those who petted, "yuck!"-ed, "cool!"-ed,...