My husband and I have been together for over 10 years and purchased only one Christmas tree throughout that time until now. Since we are expecting our son any day now we decided to have Christmas at our house. So this morning we took our daughter to get her first tree. We even let her pick it out. She was so excited about her tree and being able to decorate it.

My husband hammered on the stand and we propped the tree up to take a look, even our neighbors were partaking in the joyous occasion. Then I screamed “What is that?”

And that is when we discovered that our tree came with FREE PETS. About eight baby mice/rats were on the floor of our patio! They had fallen out of the tree! My husband darted down the stairs, I slammed my front door. My neighbor slammed hers. Everyone was screaming and in shock. Luckily they mice/rats were only a couple of days old, if that.

Needless to say the tree was returned and we got our money back. There will be no fresh Christmas tree at our house this year. Yes, we will be decorating one of our artificial plants and placing the presents under around it. Can you blame us?

The day after Christmas we will be buying our artificial tree for next year, I know those don’t come with FREE pets!