For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for March 12, 2013

No, no, no, Michael. That’s YOUR job.

Uh-oh. This can’t end good.

Hamsters on the loose can eat holes in carpets..even in the centre of the rug….as my godmother found out so many decades ago. Lol Michael should be the one…the only one…looking after this pet. In fact, I’d make him take it back to the school as he didn’t ask his parents for permission, first , to bring it home. His mom is working and anything could go wrong while she’s not home. Turn the car around, Ellie.

I wouldn’t do it either.

Michael, it is time for a talk with your Father.

oh my gosh its a comic book you shouldn’t give the flipping characters advice seriously read the comic and see where it goes.

Forget the hamster. My wife bought my granddaughter a baby albino lagomorph for Easter when she (my GD) was a year old.

Now, 9 years later, it’s my pet (always has been it seems, his cage has been in my home office since day one), and his cage definitely needs to be cleaned every day.

Michael needs to be an active participant in this. Elly should supervise, but Michael should be doing most of it.

Hamsters are highly entertaining, but they are the nastiest and most troublesome animals you can own.

lagomorph? english people, very few latin speakers here. lol.

Nice transition from I to you, Michael. The next sound you will hear will that of a lost hamster.

that was YOU, Michael !!!!!

I’m waiting for the hamster to conk out while he’s there.

hampsters….just bigger rodents !!!

yes i’m Canadian and we always referred to the teacher by name. I teach in Mexico now and they always refer to me as teacher, even my adult students.

Hamsters….hmmmmm….

Years ago, my son bought a pair of gerbils from a pet shop, with the promise that they would buy back the babies for $1 each!Good deal except for one minor detail:They never needed any, and they just kept multiplying!

His first lesson in real world economics!

Michael should be shown the cartoon where the bulldog befriends a kitten, then the bulldog is told he will have to watch over and feed the kitten as “he is YOUR responsibility”. (The bulldog accepts the responsibility).

FWIW, I always throw the :lagomorph" reference out there just to make people scratch their head and go “What is THAT?”. And he’s a giant albino breed — in his prime he weighed just over 10 pounds.

Tsk! No seat belt for Michael??

YatInExile: Some friends who spent considerable time in Iran could not understand why anyone would have a hamster. Outside urban areas, they are the dominant rodent.

when the kids were little many times they did refer to their teacher as just “Teacher” (NY)

I know where this story line is going. It is going to get lose in the house and they are going to spend the next 2 weeks trying to find it. Seen it happen in real life not once but twice.

After seeing what Jefferson Airplane did to it, I wouldn’t blame anyone for being evasive about their “albino lagamorph!”

Wrong Mike, you’ll have to clean the cage!