What's a Hamster To Do?

I swear the kids are not going to turn my hair white but our black bear hamster-Pebbles is going to age me.

Pebbles may be a black bear hamster but I am starting to believe that she is part magical.

This morning Kasey awoke and came running in my room asking me why I would knock over 10 American Girl dolls off of her dresser and then pull out her leotards from an open drawer? I looked at her and said "Why would I knock over 10 American Girl Dolls valued at $100 a piece?" "Especially when I paid for each doll." The value in my book is $1000. NO WAY CHILD!

Then I started wondering, perhaps she is sleep walking in the middle of the night and did not realize what she did. I even had Kasey convinced that perhaps she is sleep walking. Sounded good, didn't it?

Then about 1:30pm I hear Kasey screaming from her room that Pebbles is not in her cage. If I didn't see it with my own eyes I would think someone stole that hamster..but that hamster used her body and pushed open the top of this Critter Trail cage thus making her an escape artist.

I am surprised our Golden Retriever, Riley didn't find her and eat her!!! Needless to say, Pebbles is the one that knocked over the American Girl dolls, trashing the room with her weight. We had to take everything out of the dresser to move it...everything out from under the bed and an hour later we caught that monster. Pebbles is larger than most hamsters...more on the rat size minus the long nose and ugly tails that rats have.

The moral of the story is that Pebbles is now on lock down with duct tape on the Critter Trail cage....

IF and I do say IF that hamster tries to escape I am sending her to the the hamster factory.