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Animal announcement

Lola the ham­ster is actu­ally a boy. I don’t blame his pre­vi­ous human or even the pet store or dis­trib­u­tor he came from. Ham­sters are tiny, and robos are feisty. Ham­ster hind parts are about this big: .
You’re told a pet’s sex, assume it’s cor­rect, and then don’t think about it since it’s gen­er­ally not impor­tant.
So

Meet Lola

Meet Lola. I may rename her, but for now she’s Lola. She’s about a year old. She comes from a very nice home that just had too many ani­mals in it. I saw her on Craigslist and decided that she needed to move to my bed­room.
I’ve really, really wanted a Roborovski dwarf ham­ster (robo, for