Blast from the past! Can you still buy Sea-Monkeys? I am sure my son would love to add them to his current pets which includes a lovely ant farm!

I think sea monkeys are a brilliant marketing campaign but, in reality, brine shrimp don't make much of a pet, do they? You're so much better off with an ant farm. Brine shrimp make ants look cute and cuddly. The day a brine shrimp dances with an underwater organ grinder is the day I'll accept them as "sea monkeys."

Sea monkeys? Hey, I remember them. My first pet also swam in water but not for very long. Despite growing up in a house with a big back yard, my parents would allow us only one pet --- the proverbial gold fish. You know the kind you buy in the pet store, take home in a plastic bag and put in a small aquarium. Problem was our fish usually ended up on the window sill ... by virtue of jumping out of their glass bubble -- or floating face up in it. Every time, we'd bemoan the loss of dear Goldy and we'd head back to the pet store. We must have buried 3-4 fish. I haven't had a pet since.

My first childhood pet was a "Snoopy" too. My dad took us to get a puppy, and he came over and laid on my foot (pup, not dad..) He turned out to be completely ornery, but we loved him anyway for the seven years he was with us. BTW, keep up the great column!

Yes, you can still get sea monkeys. My kids begged me to buy them sea monkeys last Christmas. They come with a cute little aquatic home, and eventually, the stuff in the packet really does turn into these creatures. My kids watched them for a while, but eventually lost interest. How much can you play with shrimp after all? But then I had a dilemma. Unlike Mary's mother, I didn't have the heart to throw the water down the drain. I kept feeding them, and stirring the water, and secretly hoping they would die. They someone managed to last the better part of a year until we went on vacation and our housesitter overfed them and they finally died. The kids didn't care and I could throw the water away without guilt. Thank goodness, one less thing I had to do!

Did you konw that th same guy who invented Sea Monkeys (well, not "invented" but first marketed) was the same dude who invented X-ray glasses. Harold von Braunhart.

I bought both from comic book ads. Even with the X-ray galsses, I couldn't see the Sea Monkeys.

Bucky, Hi. I did not know that. Thanks, MC

Not surprisingly, my first pets met with a similiar fate to your sea monkeys. Our goldfish (Huey, Dewey and Louie) after having lived for way longer than any goldfish I've heard of since, were sent swimming to the sewer. It seems it wasn't until we were about to walk out the door for a weeklong vacation that my parents realized we had no one to feed the trio. Apparently, the prospect of returning home to a murky bowl of floating fish convinced my mother that it would be better to have a "clean" break and, hence they were flushed away.

I never had sea monkeys growing up, my first pet was a black cocker spaniel that my parents gave my brother and I as a surprise when we returned home from vacation with my grandparents. At first, we thought he was our neighbors dog. We were completely surprised.

I never had sea monkeys, but I did have a bowl of seahorses. I'll never forget watching Papa Seahorse give birth--truly inspirational and mind-blowing!