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The Cat-Less Years

Posted in Cats, Tamar, tagged cats, childhood, hamster, humor, tamar on September 16, 2009| 12 Comments »

My childhood was relatively pet-free. We had goldfish (do they count?) and later Tigger, a hamster whose early demise it was insinuated I contributed to as a result of sporadic cage cleaning (I have yet to research if a hamster can in fact die from lack of fresh cedar chips). Neither of my parents grew up in the States, and the idea of having a pet dog or cat was not in the vernacular. On top of it they were both very conveniently violently allergic to pet hair.