Exactitude

I was reading to the boys last night one of those old-fashioned children's stories about an old couple who go to adopt a cat and end up adopting many, many more cats than they had been bargaining for [not unlike us and guinea pigs...] and Daniel suddenly endeavoured to assert his impeccable background knowledge about this enigmatic subject matter we call "cats":

Daniel: I know exactly what a cat is.

Me: What's that, Daniel?

Daniel: A aminal. [sic]

(September 23, 2009)