Ps. Meg phoned from Inverness to ask if it was ok to bring home a small pet. She meant that quite literally as the beast in question was a Dwarf Russian Hamster. When I said that we should think about it a bit more, she asked if she could at least buy the cage ( obviously counting on my sense of economy to not want to waste such a thing by leaving it empty.) I suggested leaving that just now and she took it well. I can imagine her 3 hungry cats sitting on the cage staring at the poor thing for 12 hours a day and after BJ's dogs worrying the guinea pigs to death, I'm just not so sure about the combination of certain animals.