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

287 replies

Bobrosspaintbrush · 27/12/2021 23:02

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.

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MusicTeacherSussex · 28/12/2021 19:55

Singed and shared!

spiderlight · 28/12/2021 20:13

Signed, shared and bumping! What a lovely thing to do for a very worthwhile issue.

user1471461653 · 28/12/2021 20:19

Signed. We'll done to your son

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Snooks1971 · 28/12/2021 20:32

Bump!

ZoChan · 28/12/2021 20:40

Signed xx

Rexthesnail · 28/12/2021 20:53

I was number 2812!

Keepingthingsinteresting · 28/12/2021 20:57

Done

BlackAlys · 28/12/2021 21:24

Signed!
Well done to your son. I've shared the link too 👍

saintava · 28/12/2021 21:27

Signed and shared to animal loving friends

StopGo · 28/12/2021 21:32

Done

SorryPardonWhat · 28/12/2021 21:45

Signed

WaitinginVain · 28/12/2021 21:52

Signed and well done to your son.

Elderflower14 · 28/12/2021 21:58

Signed...

RevolvingPivot · 28/12/2021 22:09

Signed

Octopus37 · 28/12/2021 22:19

Agree and signed

Dottyteapot · 28/12/2021 22:21

I agree with this!

I’ve been shocked that companies such as omlet (who I thought would care about animal welfare) are selling cages/hutches that are tiny Angry

wizzler · 28/12/2021 22:45

Bump

britespark1 · 28/12/2021 22:50

Happily signed. We thought the same when buying gerbils for our son a couple of years ago.

SuckIt · 28/12/2021 22:57

Done.

pastypirate · 28/12/2021 23:13

Signed!! Your ds is quite right. We have spent a lot of time and money building an rspca approved hutch and run for our rabbit.

Op your ds sounds fab!

Sparticle · 29/12/2021 10:37

Bumping this for a new bunch of MNers :)

NoSquirrels · 29/12/2021 11:02

Quite close to 3,000! I think it was 2,300 or so when I signed. Not bad!

mrsjackrussell · 29/12/2021 11:06

All done (-:

Bobrosspaintbrush · 29/12/2021 13:50

Hi, thanks everyone for signing he has been looking on petition and is made up, it also comes with a map so you can see in the uk where people are voting he is very impressed by this feature as maps/ geography is one of his things.
He ventured out (very rare for him to voluntarily want to leave the house) yesterday to buy wood and wire mesh to make a lid for the ikea detolf that will be arriving early Jan.
the lady store assistant overheard us talking so came over and started asking questions, now usually he would become extremely anxious and hide behind me , but I was so proud of him he didn’t cry or hide but just gave his head a little nod for questions about our project that could be answered with yes or no.
He wants a gobi desert theme as this is where you can find dobo hamsters.

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nothingcanhurtmewithmyeyesshut · 29/12/2021 14:29

@Bobrosspaintbrush. It's actually Robo hamsters, not Dobo. Short for Roborovski.