By ANITA SNOW (Associated Press) The one thing 9-year-old Cal Clifford wanted more than anything since he was a toddler was a pet octopus. The boy’s family in rural Edmond, Oklahoma, humored him with toy versions of an eight-legged mollusk, but as Cal got older it became clear that only the real thing would do. […]
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9-year-old Cal Clifford had been begging his parents for years: "please get me a pet octopus, please!" Eventually, his parents acquiesced to his demands, and brought him a cute little cephalopod named Terrance. But, as The Washington Post reports: Terrance was not a male octopus, as they had first thought. — Read the rest
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