When Mrs Leprechaun's children were young, they all lived in a house that had ahuge ditch in the backyard. This Ditch, owned by the city for rain-draining and flood prevention, was a breeding ground for mice and other rodents. As winter neared, these mice would egt cold and take shelter in mrs Leprechaun's house.

Luckily, Mrs Leprechaun had a very talented Great Dane, who could catch the mice. he didn't just catch them, he caught them in his paws, without even hurting them.

One day, Mrs Leprechaun's daughter's room started to smell really, really bad. It was obvious that there was something decomposing in it, and Mrs Leprechaun assumed that a mouse had died inside the walls and was causing the odor. She told her husband that he would just have to tear out the wall and find the decomposing mouse carion.

When it was time to go to bed, Mrs Leprechaun told her daughter (who was four years old) that she simply souldnt sleep in her room because it just smelled too awful. her daughter replied, "Oh, don't worry. That's just my pet puppy. He pooped."

Mrs Leprechaun was wary, because her Great Dane was a huge dog, and she thought that if he had have pooped in the room, she would have noticed. Slowly she asked, "What puppy?"  

Her daughter withdrew a shoebox from under her bed. Inside the shoe box was a decomposing mole, all bloated and swelling. Its eyes were were puckered up and its mouth was pulled into a buck-toothed grin. As Mrs Leprechaun stared at the dead mole in horror, he daughter began petting it, saying "Good puppy. See? He loves me."

This was only first in a long line of Dead Pets for Mrs Leprecahun's daughter. Throughout the year, she brought home squished snakes, which she would pet obsessively, claiming they loved her. Mrs Leprechaun decided that since dead pets were the only pets that allowed her daughter to stroke them, that is why her daughter thought they loved her. In fact, come to think of it, maybe the pets only became dead pets after her daughter adopted them.

The last straw was when her daughter brought home a 'kittycat' (a dead possum that was actually only playing dead, and then woke up in the dining room and knocked over a china vase). Then Mrs Leprechaun forbade her daughter from going outside, and she stopped having dead pets.