URNotAlone

SHUCKS!

July 14th, 2008 12:35 am MST

So my daughter wanted a hamster and I bought her one.  She stays with me only one or two nights a week.  She got tired of the critter fairly quickly as young kids do.  But I still have the hamster and I try to give it as much love and attention as I can since my daughter's benevolence.  I watch this creature in its cage.  He has an exercise-wheel and he runs on it for almost 8 hours straight every night.  He is spending the better time of his waking life making himself stong and fit and ready for a life he will never ever have.  He will die in the cage he is in or (by signed agreeement, if I no longer wish to care for him I have to return him to the petshop I bought him at) maybe a friend will take him, in which case he will still die in that cage.  It is a small personal, one-rodent cage that no one, except my daughter and I and a few others even know exists.  This animal is going to die without any other hamster, or person for that matter ever knowing who he is or that he even exists because he is in a cage in an apartment building somewhere in Anytown USA.  Transsexual people are in that same cage.  Many will never come out.  If they managed to escape they would do what any escapee would do and forage, adapt and blend in to the surroundings and survive.  But that is a risk so most will stay in the cage, exercising and practising their maleness just like the hamster, only to die having never ever used it in any meaningful way.  Makes you drink, doesn't it?