To ask you to make my 12 year old happy and sign this petition. If you can.

[Bobrosspaintbrush]

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/597222

We took in a dobo hamster and my 12 year old absolutely loves him.
My son is autistic and selective mute and suffers from terrible anxiety, I have posted about the struggle it is sometimes. Anyway it has been so great to see him with the hamster. Talking to me about their needs looking after him and he has started talking to his hamster asking him “what do you want” and “what are you up too’ etc etc.
In the short time we have had him he has brought my son so much joy!
My son likes his research and has been researching how to look after D properly and has got a bit miffed that the cages sold in pet shops for small animals mostly are too small.
So he signed this petition and got the rest of the family to sign it.
He asked how can we get a few more signatures I told him I would try.
So please if you can sign , it will make him so happy to see that he managed to get a few more people to sign.

Signed

Dh and i have signed

I’ll get the three adult children to sign when they surface (and maybe adult child boyfriend….and my dad)

Signed!

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Happy to sign, lovely to hear of a child actually doing something about a problem.

Signed 👍🏻

Done! Well done to your DS.

Ooooo. Over 3000 signatures, that's gone up since page 1 of this thread. Great! Definitely get it on the small furry creature type Facebook pages too... Would be great to set him hit target. 😊

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I've signed and also sent to my Twitter followers so they hopefully sign too

Signed and shared on Facebook .

Well done to your son for highlighting this, it is important and many people don't realise this when buying a pet.

People tend to assume pet shops want the best for the animals they sell and don't realise that, while yes, their new pet will survive in the home sold to them, we should all be aiming for any animals we keep to be happy and thriving, not just surviving!

Providing a suitable environment and meeting all our pet's needs is our responsibility - they depend on us for everything, and in return for us keeping them as pets we should provide the very best possible life for them .

This is a good idea. Many people have no idea of what is required - we didn't when we got our first hamster - so it's good to raise awareness. My dd is the same age and we are often in pets at home, have had quite a few chats with people buying hamsters to try and educate them on their needs! I bought 2 omlet cages - which are £100 new, I got mine second hand - before realising that they are actually far too small. My hamsters weren't very happy in them. Now I don't know what to do with them!! Don't want to sell on and upset a poor hamster somewhere. Next stop - a detolf cage... and maybe a couple of Roborovskis to go in it!! We have a gorgeous Syrian now. They are lovely pets. We had 4 until a few months back but sadly now only one because of old age and illness. 🐹

Signed! I hope he makes it to 100k

Done here too. My 5 year old has ASD and I can understand the pleasure he will get from his research. Thanks to you both for raising awareness

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Signed. So lovely to hear about this and well done you and your son for doing it

signed also