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Sunday, September 28, 2008

I Really Dig Hamsters

Creators Syndicate - Over a year ago, our twin daughters came to us and begged us to get them hamsters. I (wisely) refused, but my wife (unwisely) gave in, and within an hour we were driving home from the pet store with Smokey and Paco, two cute, adorable and totally unnecessary hamsters.

We'd had hamsters over the years, but not for very long. In the mid-Nineties, one got loose and chose to hide (unwisely, it turned out) under the rug in our front hallway. He couldn't have known, but it's a fairly well-traveled part of our house, and he lasted a very short time in his new lair before he was turned into a fur-covered pancake. We lost another two in the great massacre of 2002, when I (stupidly, it turned out) bought birdseed instead of hamster food....

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