Do you like capybaras? What, you want to keep one at home? Legally speaking, where I live, it’s okay. …But keeping one would probably be a lot of work. First, you’d need a huge pool. Because capybaras do their business in the water. You’d have to turn your bathtub into a capybara-only bath, or build a heated pool in the garden. You’d need a big garden, too. Capybaras are actually pretty fast. They can run about fifty kilometers an hour. That’s about as fast as a car, isn’t it? You’d have to surround the place with a sturdy fence and give them plenty of room to run around. Do you know what they eat? That’s right. Grass, bamboo, fruit, vegetables… About two to three kilograms every single day. They don’t handle the cold very well, so your electricity bill would go up in winter, too. And their teeth keep growing, so they chew. And chew. And chew. The pillars of your house. The walls. The furniture. The electrical cords. …...Are you sure you’re ready for this? Actually, there was someone who kept a capybara not long ago. ......And it escaped. The capybara, I mean. It went on a wandering journey for six whole months. Nobody could catch it. ...Because it was fast. Apparently, the capybara swam in rivers and rolled around in the grass. Maybe… it just wanted to be free. Ah, now I want to see a capybara again. On my next day off, let’s go see a capybara again. Let’s go see one again.


