Hamsters with Balls

My wife goes into the vets office to get special cat food for our especially fat cat. Go figure. Its like me getting a value meal at Mc Donalds and a diet coke. So she's in the vets office picking up a 47 pound bag of Puma food (anything over 30 pounds for a cat, ain't for a cat).

Apparently a vet tech answers a call, does the uh huh, uh huh yeah, uh huh thing, puts the lady on hold, turns to the vet and says;"Hamster fell off of a fridge, the lady wants to now if you'll see her?" The vet, like this is common place in household occurances, says, rather matter of factly,"sure tell em to come in". My daughter. My precious ray of five year old sunshine, yells out, " are you serious?" "A hamster fell off of a fridge". Immediately appreciating the oddity and humor in this, which incidentally was lost on the vet and vet tech; broke into serious laughter only to be followed by my youngest who is just saying "Hamster, Hamster, Hamster", having just as much fun.

Now I do realize the seriousness of this situation. How did the Hamster get on the fridge? Did the hamster leave a note? Were there signs? Was this a depressed Hamster? Time can only tell. I would speculate, and I'm a layman here, but I have read of similar incidences; that this Hamster was probably placed in a "Hamster Ball". A Hamster Ball is essentially a mobile terrarium in which a Hamster can move itself around. Or so we thought, because as it turns out this hamsters mobile domicile becomes a play toy for Kitty or Spot. Dare I say it. This was a traumatized Hamster.

So I emplore those of you out there. Get rid of your hamster balls. It can happen to your hamster. Or a friends Hamster. If you have any questions, I would urge you to go online where I am sure someone, even just now, is writing their Hamsterspace.com blog, just waiting; no longing to hear from you (or anyone for that matter, I mean how lonely are you if you are dedicating a site to hamsters?).

Peace,
j