9 Stories That Prove Babysitting Can Be the Scariest Job on the Planet

3. Keep This Child Away From Animals

Redditor Angelapolis was babysitting her niece when she noticed the kid had gone suspiciously quiet. That’s always a recipe for mischief, but this first grader had tried to stab a cop with a pair of scissors about six months earlier, so … there was cause for concern. When Angelapolis found the little one, the kid had a sharpened pencil hovering over their dog’s head. On questioning, the kid claimed she was, “helping the dog go to heaven so she could get a cat instead.”