Changing out the paper towels I remembered by habit to set aside the empty roll for Hattie’s gerbil. Hattie is my thirteen-year-old and I am under oft-repeated instructions to save the cardboard tube. The little creature enjoys running through the tube before settling down to chew it up into more bedding. Should you wonder—and I can’t think why you would—we can figure about twenty minutes for a toilet roll tube and maybe forty-five and more for an empty roll from paper towels. Um, yes; we have timed it.
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