Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Hamsters? Nah.

I wrote about the movie, Ratatouille, the other day, but it hasn’t endeared me to rats as pets I must say. (I originally mistyped ‘rats as poets’ – can’t say that would endear me to them either.)

Another rodent that frequently turns up as a pet is a hamster. I can never understand why people like hamsters as pets. They seem to do nothing but eat, and their response to the human beings around them seems to be nil. Hamsters live in a little hamster world that appears to me to be blinkered to other life forms.

The same goes for guinea pigs. What is their attraction? I need an animal that knows I exist, even if it can’t talk to me in English.

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