A lady bought her young son a Roborovski hamster. (robos, in general, are difficult to hand-tame and even then, they are still really skittish) One day, the boy tried to force the hamster to stay in his hand. The hamster bit him, and was dropped on the floor. In an effort to catch it, the little boy slammed a cup down on the hamster to trap him. In doing so, squished its leg.
She tried to return it to the pet store, but they wouldn't take back an injured hamster. Her next stop was at the humane society... who wouldn't take it either. I happen to be there that day and overheard their conversation She told the receptionist... "if you don't want it, I'm going to throw it away. Or if you want, you can feed it to a snake or something."
This is where I stepped in. I'm not a crazy rescue lady who is trying to save the world, but this was a special case. She said it's been limping for 3 days. My original thought was that she wasn't going to make it. Rather than let her die a slow, painful death in a garbage bin or by the clutches of a snake... I decided to take her home. I wanted to make her comfortable during her last days.
I did a lot of research and found out that a broken leg isn't a death sentence. So... for the next three weeks, I rinsed the wound with a q-tip and warm salt water, gave her a very nutritious diet of infant formula, baby food and pedialyte. And guess what??? After two months, she made a full recovery!! So... now I have a robo in my family.
At first glance... she reminded me of Pai Mei... the kungfu master from Kill Bill. It's the eyebrows that totally give it away. So the name stuck (even though she's a girl).
Pai Mei from Kill Bill. See the resemblance? It's the eyebrows!! =)
freaking cute! dude anne. when did you move from xanga??
ReplyDeletei went to check mine for the first time in freaking forever and you weren't there anymore. xanga is like myspace. no one's there anymore and i'm trying to revive mines.
why did you move!!