May 6, 2012

General Manners: Entertain your pet hamster.

I seem to have watched a lot of television while I was holding a hamster:


Suburban Chicago, February 1964. The hamster doesn't mind balancing on my hand.

It's a good idea to keep an eye on a hamster because you never know what kind of mischief it otherwise will find:


Suburban Chicago, February 1964. Do you know what kind of books your hamster is reading?

2 comments:

jmartin said...

Ah, the hamster-fever of the early 60's. The high point our ownership: an escapee scuttled via baseboard into the walls, only to reappear -- triumphant -- on my sleeping mother's chest, 3 a.m.

Surely did bolster our arguments for a dog.

Irene said...

Our hamster Shakespeare beheaded his cage mate, Hamlet. What a mess. That bolstered our arguments for a dog!