Pet owners for a week

In January a friend of ours asked us to "hamster sit" while she visited her family.  I reluctantly said yes.  I've never been a hamster sort of person ever since I was bit by one as a child.  Sam was happy of course and offered to help take care of it.  The hamster turned out to be quite lovable and I was even a little sad when we gave it back after two weeks.  Since then I had been thinking about getting a pet.  A week or so ago a young friend of mine showed me a mouse she had just bought and was hiding from her mother.  The poor mouse was in a very small plastic box and hidden behind a huge stuffed bear.  I told my friend to tell her mother so they could get it a proper house.  Instead she asked if I wanted to have the mouse.  I thought for a minute then told her it was up to Sam.  Naturally Sam wanted to take the mouse home as soon as he saw it.  We spent the rest of the day buying the necessary items for it. Sam named it Pips. (We had no clue as to whether it was a girl or boy mouse.) When we brought it home Sam mentioned that it must have thought he was food because it bit him once or twice.  I said it must be scared and that we should give it time.  But after three days with the mouse not even coming out of its little home (inside the cage) I began to worry it was a little antisocial.  Sam lured it into a little plastic ball and gave it the run of our apartment.  It seemed to enjoy that but after we put it back in its cage it went straight to its house and didn't come out.  I think Sam was frustrated too because the next day he opened the mouse's house to hold it.  The mouse did not like that at all so it bit Sam's hand and would not let go.  As soon as he shook it off it ran up and did the same thing again.  This mouse was not afraid, it was angry.  So were we.  After having the mouse for a whole week our young friend came by to see how the mouse was doing.  We told her everything and she still seemed like she would want the mouse if her mom would let her.  After talking it over with her mom we gave the mouse complete with its new digs back to the original owner.  Everyone was happy. 

 

Okay so this blog was nothing about China, but now you know that we don't have any pets and are not likely to in the near future.