[lit-ideas] Re: English Pubic Schools

I'd go for the hamster.  They're fluffier and nicer to hold.  Gerbils bite.  
Well, the one I had did (I had one also).  But maybe it just didn't like me.  
I personally found the creature annoying as hell.  I'd never get another.


Erin


Quoting JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx:

> How have I been reading your posts for years and not known that?  
>  
> Oblivious R Us, I guess.
>  
> Julie Krueger
> 
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> Uh, my family is  Jewish?
> 
> Erin
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx:
> 
> >  And you know from sitting Shiva how?  Just curious....
> >   
> > So your bro had a gerbil.  I'm being arm-twisted to allow one  last  mammal
> 
> > into my daughter's room -- she's trying to choose  among a rat, a gerbil, 
> 
> and
> > a 
> > hamster.  Whaddya know  about gerbils' behaviour?
> >  
> > Julie Krueger
> > spending  a fortune on pet food & litter
> > 
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> >  Schools  Date: 2/16/06 7:29:26 P.M. Central Standard Time  From:  
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> > My  brother made us bury his gerbil and give it a  funeral.  We put it in 
> 
> an
> > 
> > egg 
> > carton and burried it in the   garden.  He wanted us all to sit Shiva, but
> 
> you
> > 
> > have to  draw the line  somewhere.  
> > 
> > Erin
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Quoting  JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx:
> > 
> > > You  should get another.  Lucy is the  first dog I've really loved  since
> 
>  my
> > 
> > > wonderful collie/hound  mix...he was  such a good pet.  Died of old  age.
> 
> > 
> > And
> > >  I  
> > > have tended in the past to ridicule slightly those people  who   treat 
> their
> > 
> > > animals like people ....but  Lucy is such a wonderful  companion; I 
> take
> > her
> > >  
> > > everywhere in the car with me, and  even let her sleep on my  bed (an  
> > absolute
> > > no-no 
> > > in   general) when I had the flu.  She so absolutely has her  very  own 
> 
> > > personality.  Sometimes I think animals are nicer  than   people.  My 
> > daughter
> > > would 
> >  > certainly say so.  One of  her mice recently  had babies and  one of
> the
> > tiny
> > > things 
> > >  (ugly as all  get-out, pink, hairless,  worm-looking) died.  I told her 
> 
>  to
> > 
> > > toss it in the trash.  She was  outraged and  insisted on a  full burial.
> 
> > 
> > ("If
> > > you  
> > > had a baby, Mom, and it  died,  would you want someone  to throw it in
> the
> > 
> > > trash??").  Of course   this  is the same child who begged me, years ago,
> 
> > when
> >  > I 
> > >  swatted a wasp in her  bedroom, to "make it  alive again, Mommy, make it
> 
> > 
> > alive
> > > 
> > >  again!".
> > >  
> > > Julie  Krueger
> >  >
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