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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (74317)	2/8/2000 6:34:00 PM
From: Nuni	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

Thank heavens you didn't bring home a gerbil (or worse, a pair of gerbils). Gerbils were my worst pet experience ever--I couldn't take the cannibalism. And I hadn't intended to have a breeding pair, I thought we had two females or two males (can't remember now). Yes, they ate their babies. And the Habitrail and the urine.... oh, it was too awful. I have a question for you. Would you use the aluminum and baking soda method for cleaning your silver? (You know I ask because you're a collector.) I don't think I would because it would destroy the oxidization which can be desirable. Maybe you'll learn to like cats one day???? First step hamster, then cat, then dog. Or then dog, then cat. Whatever.

To: epicure who wrote (74317)	2/8/2000 7:19:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Well, you know that we once had a hamster--EYP, the Stinky Hamster-- who disappeared one day and was never seen again. Of course, I was heartbroken. (hahahahahahaha--) Blue would sit and stare into the tubes for hours, praying for a small earthquake so he could finally play with EYP. I hope you got all that equipment at a yard sale. CW filled the breakfast room with the stuff- all obtained very cheaply on Sat. mornings. Hamsters must die a lot. And apparently they don't inspire in their owners a great desire to run out and buy another. Our kitchen looked like that room in The Witches when the little boy turns into a hamster. Or is it a rat? Or a gerbil? "EYP is irreplaceable, CW. THere will never be another EYP." I said, wiping my eyes and sniffling loudly. "So take down his house now and put it in the garage." "He might come back!" wailed CW. But, what a shame, he didn't.