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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 2, 1959)
Dacldy ImH a by Dick Emmons Our family, I am overjoyed to state, is just entering the Goldfish Stage. I hope we never onttrrow it. "fV" We are fresh from the Hamster TQQ- II Stage and not far removed from l-J-' the Rabbit Stage, both of which loff tia turn nrlults in our familv with permanent mental scars. For reasons I am not entirely able to understand, our three chil dren have strong feelings about animals. What they feel strongly is that they should bring them home. This was the case with Jennifer, a darling brown-and-white ham ster with a rare nocturnal talent for noisily chewing up the news papers in her box. I don't know if you have ever tried to sleep in the same small house with a paper chewing hamster, but it is not an experience that leaves you fresh and ready for the forthcoming day. Jennifer was the pet of our 10-year-old, Ann, who acquired her one day from a small confederate whose mother had ruled that the hamster must go. Ann took pos session ecstatically on condition that the former owner was to have full visiting privileges, including t Picking Up and Fatting rights. We agreed to the arrangement before we realized that Jennifer was a creature of late hours. After a few nights of her crunching, we put our foot down unfortunately missing Jennifer. "Let's trade Jennifer in on something that sleeps at night, I suggested one red-eyed morning. "How about a Great Dane?" Ann asked enthusiastically. I shook my head. "A spider monkey?" My wife shook her head vigorously. "What would you say to a set of matched goldfish!' I cried. Before Ann could protest, I was out the door and on the way to the office. I brought the fish home that night and I want to testify Publicly that I believe we have found the solution to the pet problem. Goldfish dont chew papers at night, track mud through the house, or claw at the Naturally, we did not arrive at this state of relative bliss without trial (the hamster) and tribulation (the rabbit). In addition, I remember in a cold sweat the evening an otherwise rational neighbor proudly brought our six-year-old twin boys a pair of white mice. "I'm gonna name mine Sugar!" Davie squealed. "Mine's Salt!" Dickie yelped. "Build us a cage, Daddy!" - My wife groaned. "By all means build them a cage! Ugh! I cant stand the things!" , o I , " i - As I tried to explain later to my wife, it was the first time in my long and colorful career that I had been called upon to build a mouse cage and, what with one understandable miscalculation and another, Sugar and' Salt escaped their new home almost as soon as they were in it. "EEIOUCK!" my wife screamed as the little white pets blurred across the kitchen floor. She leaped up on a counter and sought the safety of the refrigerator top. "Catch mine, Daddy!" Dickie yelled. . "No, get mine first!" Davie howled. I started on a dead "run into the living room in pursuit of one of the escapees, unhappily tripping over a lamp cord and plunging that part of Upe house into semi-darkness. "Help! Murder!" my wife shrieked. "They're under the couch!" the boys squealed. Using Commando tactics and a long-handled corn-popper we keep around for just such emer gencies, I was able to trap Sugar and Salt before my wife went out of hCTheiupshot of the incident was that the boys were allowed to keep the mice in an escape-proof cage in the basement fruit cellar, which was locked and bolted. Under these adverse conditions, the twins soon lost interest and. we gave the mice away a few days later to some people who had not sent us a Christmas card last year. . But we're all set now with our goldfish. Long may they swim! I i 8 4 I- i 10 Family Weekly, Auguit t. 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