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Puffy 2022 — 2024
A Memory Space · A hamster
Puffy
2022 — 2024
Kept by Arjun
Puffy, held in cupped hands.
The cheek pouch, always full
Puffy had two speeds: sleeping, and packing his cheeks. He would visit the food bowl, pack, waddle home to the cardboard house, unpack, and return. He did this seven or eight times, every evening, with the seriousness of a small removals firm.
The wheel, at three in the morning
The wheel began at three, sharp. It went until dawn. We oiled it, we changed it, we tried three different models. Puffy preferred the loudest. It became the soundtrack of the household, the way a clock becomes the soundtrack of a hall.
“Puffy lives in an Ikea Samla box, just like the clean minimalist that he is. He had a small cage initially, which became his clubhouse, and he has his own wheel and swimming pool of silica sand. Aside from his brother and owner, Arjun, he is the most pampered member of our home.”
— Arjun
The seed on the finger
The seed on the finger
He would take a single sunflower seed from the tip of Ada's finger, hold it in both hands, and eat it slowly, watching her the whole time. Ada would hold her breath. We took a photograph of this, once. It is the one on her wall.
A Memory Space
Puffy
2022 — 2024
Kept by Arjun
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