The Great (Hamster) Escape
When hamsters came into my house years ago they had little plastic balls, so they could run merrily all over. (Humans now have those, too. You’d think we could just walk.) We did have to […]
Tag: mice
A Hamster, By Any Other Name, Is Still a Rat
Let’s get this out of the way right now: Hamsters are rodents. Mice are rodents. And yet one elicits an “Aw … cute …”, while the other delivers “Eeeeeekkkkk!!!!!!!!” I don’t get that. It’s true […]
Spotlight on Leslie Handler, Author of “Rats, Mice and Other Things You Can’t Take to the Bank”
About the Book Part memoir, part essay collection, Rats, Mice, and Other Things You Can’t Take to the Bank is written with both wit and charm. It will take you on a ride from finding a […]
Friday Humor Devotional
Dear Lord, please forgive my outburst of profanity towards my cat and her sadistic sense humor. I put on my favorite pair of Sunday church shoes only to find a dead mouse she’d dropped into […]
Hollywood Habitat Hell
Holy smokes did we have a dilemma at the Brakeman household. It started a few days ago when the kids found out that I would be working on a PetSmart commercial. I had tried to […]
Mouse Trap
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK My war with mice has gone on for decades. Like the zombie apocalypse, I keep killing ‘em off, and they keep coming back. Except zombies don’t like peanut butter. I […]
From the mouths of babes….well, children…well, one child
If you have a pet, particularly a cat or a dog, you may have, by chance, seen them chase their own tails. Our cats did it mainly when they were younger, but that has not […]