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 These are two of my Mr. Henshaw Journal entries Mar. 28 2008 3-28-08

Dear Ms. Johnson, Like I said before and before I have a dog, her name is Cinnamon, she’s a pain, yada, yada, yada. But before that Christmas day I had quite a few hamsters. First my mom and I bought a hamster for my sister’s birthday and she died of a hamster disease. Then we got another hamster and it was really mean and bit all of the time. I turned out that it was pregnant, so we had 7 baby hamsters and 1 big hamster in the house. The mom was still mean so we gave her and 6 other baby’s to the pet store and my sister and I got to pick the two that stayed. One of the hamsters that stayed was named Onedot. (Her name was Onedot because she was brown on her head and waist down, with white in the middle and there was ONE little brown dot in the middle of the white part.) I loved that hamster. She was so cute and cuddly and she always would love it when I would cuddle her and stroke her on the head. Once she made a great escape and was gone for a month. My sister and I both thought that Onedot was gone forever because when we went out to play one night we accidentally left the garage door and a door that leads to my garage open and when we came in for dinner she was gone so we both thought she was outside being eaten by a hawk. But then one night when my sister was asleep and I was about to go to sleep I heard my mom yell “GET A FLASHLIGHT!” I thought it was a fire or something so I jumped up and ran downstairs to find that when my mom went downstairs to iron her close for the next day she saw Onedot scurry across the basement floor. Sadly she died a month after her birthday. She was a great hamster and she never bit. (The great escape was made in January or February of 2007 or 2006 and her birthday was in October of one of those same years.) The other hamster that stayed with us was my sister’s hamster. I don’t really have much to say about her except that her name was Pinky, (I don’t know why her name was Pinky my sister named her) she bit a lot, she loved food, and she was pretty fat. She died awhile after Onedot did. Sad that my hamster died, Kate