2007-02-24 21:19:31 · 18 answers · asked by HarveyB 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Well, you know her. Quite contrary, that one.
2007-02-24 21:25:50 · answer #1 · answered by Tut Uncommon 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because her family was too poor to have a regular pet for her. The wool was sold to help put some much needed jack in the family fundage and then the lamb was slaughtered to give them eats for awhile.
Of course Mary wasn't thrilled with that outcome, I know that.
2007-02-25 05:27:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cats and dogs are common pets. A little lamb made the poem uinique.
2007-02-25 05:37:59 · answer #3 · answered by Sky Guy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cats or dogs don't immediately abandon their instinct to who or what is their mother like a lamb does so they author chose a lamb
2007-02-25 05:34:29 · answer #4 · answered by burning brightly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
B' cauz Lamb rhymed in the poem.Its difficult to find a rhyming word for dog.
2007-02-25 05:23:50 · answer #5 · answered by Ana C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't be a hater! Lambs make perfectly good pets for people who name their kids "Mary"! *weep*
2007-02-25 05:22:39 · answer #6 · answered by Debi in LA 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mary is a special girl.
2007-02-25 05:33:50 · answer #7 · answered by Sleepless in MN 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
her family sheer the sheep for income (that's why it's fleece was white as snow) they also eat mutton when times get hard..........a cat or dog would hardly feed an entire family.
2007-02-25 05:23:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because she was so desperate being stuck in a rut,
that she wanted to do sth different from the mass
2007-02-25 05:24:34 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because most dogs and cats dont have FLEECE (as white as snow)
2007-02-25 05:25:02 · answer #10 · answered by ChrissyLicious 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because it sounds better in the rhyme not that it rhymes but that is a good question
2007-02-25 05:22:14 · answer #11 · answered by Pastinie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋