Not a four-star hotel here

We came home from the pool to learn that some of our house guests would be better off not staying together. Which is a problem.

The dog we brought home this morning had broken the running tube thingie off the hamster cage.. and the hamster was missing. Kaitlyn immediately assumed the worst and started to cry accusing the dog of eating the hamster. I wondered why the dog was so excited about the coat closet so I looked there and found that was where the hamster had taken refuge. I wasn’t thrilled by the situation, but it did explain why there were hamster turds all around the house. As he was running from the dog he must have been scared shitless.

With Kaitlyn’s help we got the nervous hamster back into his cage. I probably should have put it back together before we put him in it, but I just wanted to get him out of the closet.

While I did that, Kaitlyn rushed to the laundry room to check the status of the turtle. She seemed very relieved when she reported back that he is still quite alive.

When Bill came home, he had to move the hamster up to the computer room so we can keep him somewhere with the door shut. Lucky rodent, he’s in the room with the air conditioning. I guess next time I’m considering animal sitting, I’ll make sure I don’t have overlapping guests. Or maybe I should just say no. It isn’t really my strong suit.

One Response to “Not a four-star hotel here”

  1. D.A.D. says:

    What will the owners be doing to repay your kindness? Or will the hamsters get mad at the overlapping dogs (application of the “no good deed goes unpunished” theory)?

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