When it comes to pets, I’ve never understood wanting pet fish. I think the problem is that I can’t play with them or pet them like my other pets. Instead, I stare at fish, they stare at me, I pucker up my mouth to make a fish-face, they open and close their mouth in return. And […]
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My sister, Aby, called me two weeks ago to say that when she and her daughter, Kailea came into town from Illinois there were a few things they wanted to do: 1) catch a fish; 2) see a giraffe; and 3) go to a beach on Lake Michigan. It had been averaging 90 degrees in Michigan and I told
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The thing about hamsters is that they grow quickly. You might remember this baby tan and white baby from the last posting. Two weeks later, he turned into this. The mostly black baby that looked like this: Now looks like this: And the black and white babies that were still nursing a week ago: Now
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Our hamster babies were born in the top part of Snuggles’ cage, and not knowing what else to do for our new charges, we put some bedding up there and crossed our fingers that Snuggles would know what to do to keep her babies safe. Luckily, Snuggles knew what to do–she piled the bedding around the babies to keep them
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Once upon a time, there was a man named Mark. He wanted a hamster pal. So he went to a local pet store and bought a cute, fuzzy, male hamster. Mark named him Little Buddha. A better name for Little Buddha was Little Biter. He mistook fingers for food and bit both Mark and me. A
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His name is Lincoln and he’s lying in a Reeboks box in our freezer because he had the audacity to die in the dead of winter. And the last time Mark tried burying an animal in the dead of winter, Sox, the ferret, came back to life in the form of a skull that showed
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You know you have elderly pets when: You buy special, soft food for your dog because she only has six teeth. And you don’t care that your cat likes some of the dogs’ food more than his own. You cut up your dog’s favorite snack into small pieces so he doesn’t crack another tooth. And you slice
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I must first apologize to my sister, Aby, because I told her I wouldn’t blog about the fact that her presents didn’t arrive in time for Christmas, that even though she mailed them out in plenty of time they ended up going from Edwardsville, Illinois to the Volunteer State where the volunteers apparently took off the days
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`Twas the night before Christmas, when all through our digs not a creature was stirring not even our pig. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. The four rowdy children were nestled in bed While visions of presents danced around in their head. And
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I had a few people email me for a status of some of the bad things mentioned in a previous posting, and, not to sound impatient or anything, but that blog started with the death of Caramel the mouse, and guess what? She’s still dead. The blog posting also included the death of Hoppie, the
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