Rhino making him/herself at home on the wheel.
Tim and I decided that the kids were at a point where they could take care of a pet of their own. Tim had a hamster when he was growing up so he felt pretty good about the decision. I have a couple of memories of hamsters that friends had. One of those memories was that their bites hurt! This hamster is named Rhino. Yes, it's after the hamster in Bolt. Connor and Aidan managed to pick a hamster that looked a lot like the one in the movie.
The ride home from the store was hilarious. Rhino came home in a little cardboard box that had little tiny holes around the top and a little handle on top. After we got him I had to run into Barnes and Noble not thinking about the fact that hamsters like to chew cardboard. I don't think I really knew that. I was freakishly fast in Barnes and Noble and we were driving home and we were having fun watching Rhino's nose peek out of a hole. Then we would catch glimpses of his sharp little teeth. Half way home I hear the cardboard tear. The little bugger was chewing his way out of the box. Thankfully we had picked up a plastic hamster ball at the store. While driving, I'm trying to get the hamster ball out of the box and get it to Tim who was now holding a piece of paper over the ever growing hole that Rhino was chewing. We got the open end of the ball up near the hole he was chewing and we watched him (while driving) work his way out of the box into his ball. It was so funny. I think they picked out a hamster on steroids.
A blurry picture of Rhino's escape route.
So we have Rhino placed in his lovely little home out in the living room and we are sitting here listening to him run and run and run and run on his little wheel. Life is good!
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