Season 8, "You Pet It, You Bought It" After earning the whopping sum of $221 selling lemonade- a hefty pile of cash for any child her age- Michelle decided to go against her dad's wishes to start a savings' account and instead talked her older sister's best-friend- Kimmie Gibbler- into taking her to the candy store. Buying $221 worth of candy- as was Michelle's plan- would have been bad enough; instead, Michelle and Kimmie stopped at a traveling petting zoo and purchased a donkey. A donkey. A 500lbs. living, breathing creature. An animal that requires acres of land to graze, brought to live in what is essentially a town house with 20 square feet of land for a backyard. A filthy, smelly animal that destroyed her father's brand-new painting, gave her sister D.J. a rash from allergies, ate her other sister's homework, and kept the entire block awake at night with its constant "bray-"ing. Michelle nearly successfully argued that she had proven her ability to care for animals because she had a pet hamster: an animal that was never seen before, and was never seen since. Which means the hamster is probably dead, as this donkey likely would have been had her family not finally stood up to Michelle to remove once and for all.