WATFORD CITY, N.D. — OK, I’m just going to cut to the chase. I was not prepared for the amount of drama owning a hamster would bring upon our house.

You’d think as a ranch kid raising my own ranch kids, I have seen it all when it comes to ways things can go sideways between animals and humans. Sometimes no matter how tight you string that barbed wire, the bull still finds a way to the neighbors’.

And although I’ve never intentionally invited a rodent into my home, I figured we could handle Popcorn, a couple ounces of fluffy house pet with one eye.

I was wrong.

And because I know some of you were making guesses as to how long it was going to take before that hamster went missing, I will tell you now that the dust has settled a bit — it took five days.

Five. Days.

And the way in which

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