Snoball. I remember going with mom to pick out a kitten for Shelley’s birthday. Melissa and I chose the cute little white kitten and we took care of him in the food storage room in the basement for a few days until it was time to give him to Shelley. We put little Snoball under a box and as Shelly lifted the box up off the ground the kitten ran and hid. She was super confused that she was given an empty box. Shelley loved Snoball, he was such a cute little guy. My favorite memory of Snoball was coming home from school to see him perched on top of the Volvo. He would jump down and come to greet us. Snoball was a great cat until he was banished to be an outdoor cat because he had some bladder issues. Once he realized that he was not allowed in the house anymore he became quite a bitter and resentful cat. When the family moved into the new Orem house he disappeared and we haven’t seen him since.
Spec. Mom and dad felt sorry for David because he was the only boy in the family, surrounded by emotional girls. So they decided to get David a dog. When we first got Spec she was a tiny little puppy. She couldn’t go up the stairs because her little legs were not long enough. David took her to play in the snow in the back yard and she disappeared into the snow and we had to find her by following her little yelps. David loved Spec {who was a girl by the way} and they became best buddies. However, Spec was an emotional and needy puppy…she loved to be pet, cuddled and paid attention to. I’m not sure that she was the rambunctious friend mom and dad had in mind, but David loved her none the less.
The Hampsters. The hamsters were mine. I convinced mom and dad to let me get two hamsters: a boy {Chestnut} and a girl {I don’t remember her name}. I wanted to become a hamster breeder and sell all the baby hamsters for a profit. Chestnut was a very nice hamster who I loved very much. The girl hamster, however, was a mean old girl who often bit me so hard that I would bleed. I did not like her, but I needed her to breed baby hamsters. We realized that the girl hamster was pregnant when she became very fat. She made a little nest and had a bunch of the cutest, tiniest little hamster babies. Then one by one the babies started disappearing. I think she was eating them. I was so angry that she was doing this! One baby survived and I sold it to Sarah Sargeant, we had named the baby Chewy because it was always eating. Then I had to take care of the mean mom hamster. I tried to kill her in a humane way….by starving her. But she wouldn’t die. Then Chestnut died. That was a really sad day, he was such a nice hamster. I took the mean mom hamster, put her in the toilet and watcher her swirl around as the she was sucked into the underground tunnels. It was the meanest thing I have ever done in my entire life and I am still haunted by her little face sticking up out of the water as her arms paddled, trying to swim. I do not like hamsters anymore and no longer want to breed them.
The Bunnies. Salt and Pepper lived in a little cage in the back yard when we lived in the Orem house. I think they were Shelley’s bunnies, I’m not sure. My favorite memory of the bunnies is when the bunnies would try to play with Snoball. Snoball was so afraid of the little bunnies that he would run away screeching, leaving the bunnies confused at why their friend was so scared.
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