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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Losing a Pet

Sorry it's been such a long time since my last post... Recently, our pet Robo Dwarf hamster, Dale, passed away. While this type of hamster usually lives for only 1-2 years, Dale was a part of our little family for 2 years and seven months! We feel very fortunate and honored to have had him in our lives.

It was very hard to accept that he was gone at first. No longer did we hear him rustling his bedding as he was waking up or the sound of his wheel spinning as fast as he could make that blue cylinder go. The room he occupied now felt empty. You might be saying, "why all the fuss over a hamster?" Well, Dale was one of our first pets (besides our goldfishes) that have been with us since college. My boyfriend and I attended separate colleges and had joint custody over him which meant, I would have him one month and my boyfriend would have him the next, etc. Dale was over at our parents houses after we graduated and was our room mate at our new apartment... We had a lot of history with that little guy.

"I didn't know they had kittens here"

A couple of weeks ago, Nick and I walked into the San Mateo Pet Supply for kitty litter when we made our discovery. We've been there a few times before and never ever noticed that they had kittens waiting to be adopted! If we knew about this place when we were looking to adopt, it definitely would have been a great place to take a look.

This place has the CUTEST kitties I've ever seen! Humanimal Connection, a nonprofit, no-kill organization houses their kittens at San Mateo Pet (and Petco on 520 Woodside Rd in Redwood City). There's a pair of Russian Blue kittens that are just precious and I could not believe that they were still waiting in their cage when we went back two weeks later.

Instead of me rambling on about how cute their kittens are, you can check them out for yourself!