Small animals have large appetite for playing

Small animals have gotten "big" as pets. According to the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association (www.APPMA.org) survey, there are more than 16.8 million hamsters, gerbils, mice, guinea pigs and other pint-sized critters sharing our homes today. That's almost equal to the entire human population of Florida.

If these perky little pets could talk to us, most of them would say the same thing: "Let's play!"

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