Holiday Hope for Tiny Tim

A couple of days before Christmas we had a family come into our PETCO who wanted to surrender a male dwarf hamster who they could no longer care for. We gladly accepted the little guy in hopes of finding him a home for the holidays. We set him up in the nursery, and as we did so we noticed that the little guy was missing one of his hind legs. In the Christmas spirit, our bird expert named him Tiny Tim, after the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol.

Over the next several days we talked Tiny Tim up to everyone who came in to buy a hamster hoping we would get him a home for the holidays. We posted signs announcing Tiny Tim’s arrival and his need for a home for the holidays.

On Christmas Eve, in the middle of my shift, a nice lady walked in and saw the sign for Tiny Tim. After seeing Tiny Tim she quickly adopted him and even kept his name. Needless to say, Tiny Tim had a great Christmas.

Kyle