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                           JoeMonday 30 September 2002, 19:45hrs, I am walking down the High Street in Gillingham, North Kent after leaving the station when I finally got out of my delayed train from Victoria. I had to wait fifteen minutes outside Chatham station before the train was allowed to move. By the time I reached home, I would have missed Coronation Street and I would have to wait for the episode to be repeated on ITV 2. As I reached the door and about to put the key through the lock, my 10 year old son James open the door with a smile on his face, saying, “Hello dad, come in the dining room.” As I entered the dining room, I could see a cage on the dining room table and in the cage there was a hamster. James said with a smile, “It is my new pet Dad.” I asked who gave it to him and James replied our next door neighbour. I asked how did it happen. James said, “I was playing out and Frank’s sister Jade asked me if I would like to have a pet hamster. And I said yes please.” June came downstairs and into the dining room, smiling too and said, “Do you like the new arrival?” I asked June: “Are you and James going to look after the Hamster?” June, James’ mother, replied: ”No, its James’ pet and he would look after it”. I asked where is it going to stay? And June said, “In James’ room.”James said with a smile, “The name of the hamster is Joe after the lead singer of my favourite rock band, Slipknot.” The hamster was brown and white and it is known as a Syrian hamster and it is a common one for pets. There are other types like the Russian hamster but they look more like mice then hamsters. I said to James, “Why don’t we call the hamster Snowy?” James smiled and said: ”No, the hamster’s name is Joe after the lead singer of my favourite rock band.” After a while I agreed to Joe being the new hamster’s name. Then James and I took the cage to his bedroom. We decided that the best place for the cage was on top of his small wardrobe. The following Saturday James and I went to the library to get some books on hamsters. On the way back from the library we
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visited a few shops including the pet shop on the High Street. When we got home, we started reading some of the books on hamsters and we learnt that they like to sleep during the day time and are active at nights. They like to exercise a lot on the wheel and in one of the books it said that we should take out the hamster about once a week and put it in a plastic ball for hamsters with holes wide enough for them to breathe and narrow enough to stop the hamster from escaping. Our hamster ball was ...

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