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Early in May middle DD reached her decade milestone.

She wanted a pet for her birthday.

She wanted a dog of her own.

Umm.... no.

A kitten?

Ummm....no.

She decided that a hamster was just what she had always wanted. Perfect. We have a cage and stuff from our other hamster who had lived with us for 18 months. We go to the pet store. The dwarf hamsters are looking really cute. Great. Now we have to get all the paraphernalia as well, because they're too small to use a regular hamster's cage. So DD got a robo-hamster for her birthday. It's tiny. And extremely speedy. Did I mention that it's rather nasty and bites? It doesn't bite DD too much, but it bites anyone else. I like that the cage is smaller. It's waste is smaller too, so the cage doesn't get stinky nearly as fast. (Yeah, too much information). Even the ball it rolls around in is smaller. The dog has been somewhat interested in that ball. DD has strict orders to make sure the lid is not only locked in place, but that it's secured with masking tape as well. And the name? Well, the night we brought it home DD was calling it Ginger. By the next morning it had been changed to Flash. DD has now settled on Gem.