Things we tell small kids!

So eversince I built the big cage for my guinea pigs, my cousin has been even more interested in them. Everydaaayy when I get back from work she will follow me up to see the guinea pigs and wouldn't leave until I sorta halau her..
Coz u know I too want to play with my guinea pigs but with her around, I couldn't because I told her that we must not touch them coz they BITE! So she would oni jus stand and watch and dare not be too near them...
Than one day, I was holding and cuddling Scamper when to my horrorrrr my cousin snucked in. Normally I could hear her coming up the stairs and than I would quickly scramble out of the cage (if I'm inside) or just quickly put the guinea pigs down.. so she never sees me touching them!
But anyway that day I was caught red-handed and immediately she says I WANNA PET THEM TOO! =.="
So since than.. she would always try to touch them.. sighhh
Slowly on I figured its too hard to always wait for her to sleep or stop bothering me than only to clean the cage so I just carried on with her around. Now cleaning the cage involves me entering the cage and sweeping up their droppings with a tiny broom n dustpan. Of course she too wants to go in the cage but I told her NEVER EVER do that and Im just cleaning the cage once im done i'll be out.
One day she was observing me cleaning the cage, changing the soiled newspapers and all and she said to me that when she grows up she wants to be just like me. Wow it does make ur heart grow warm when u hear a young kid wanting to be like u rite? Well not really coz she later on continued that she will study hard so she can be like me... cleaning up poo everyday =.="

Well as the days pass.. I realise something is amiss whenever I get home.. there was one time where I saw their food bowl was filled to the brim with pellets. I tot maybe that's my mom's doing... so I didn't question. Than one day I find the newspaper that I put inside was thrown out and the food bowl once again filled to the brim! So i went and ask my mom straight...n my mom said she didn't even go up.
So I asked my cousin.. at first she was scared to own up coz she knew i wasn't very happy.
Than my bro asked her and coaxed her to tell if she really did it. And she answered in a small voice.. sorry I ACCIDENTALLY threw away the newspaper. I was cleaning up the poo!
Wahhh my 'petarnal' instinct was aroused.. I was like these are my guinea pigs, I will feed them and clean them thats my responsibility.. u don't have to do that, u jus stand and look at them only okay! Don't touch other things. I felt that she's trying to take over my pets.. haha but actually no la i dun wan her to do all that for other reasons also.. coz she always don't wash her hands.. everytime she comes up touch the foodbowl touch the fence touch the guinea pigs and than if u dun remind her to wash her hands.. she'll touch her face, her hair, her toys, than her mouth all that...!! even she wash hands also cincai wash... dun use soap... haih every time hv to supervise her and make sure she washes properly.
So now if she goes touching the soiled papers and poop all and thn dun wash properly later fall sick.. susah la.
And that's how I explained to her too why I don't want her doing all that and I told her not to feed them.. because she always puts too much and than the pellets will go to waste because they don't eat them all and than it gets dirty and I'll have to throw them away. And she said sorry to me she promise not to do that anymore.

But of course, we all know that kids forget their promises easily. A couple of days later I caught her red handed INSIDE the cage and filling the foodbowl to the brim again! I was furious!
So I went and complain to my mom haha... n my mom told my cousin not to do that.
My mom said to her... gal you cannot feed them too much, later they keep eating and than their stomachs will explode!
WOW! Now i wondered if my mom ever told me such crap when I was little. LOL
But it did work... now when i come home my cousin will tell me that she didn't feed them... and true i never find the bowl filled with pellets anymore.
Guess I should start learning to BS to kids when I don't want them doing something.