My cousins had a couple of pet rats that were very intelligent and friendly. I have always wondered why people get all squeamish about pet rats. They aren't like sewer rats or anything, and they seem to be very clean to me.
Hamsters however, are the spawn of Satan or something. I used to have a couple, but they ended up killing and mutilating each other. Anyone I have ever known that has had one has some horror story about the hamsters eating each other or their babies or something. I won't be getting any hamsters anytime soon.
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Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. - Theodor Adorno
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