I suppose this picture is a bit less specific than the blog asked, but I'm sure it still qualifies (I mean look at it! It's a hamster squatting his cage door!)

This hamster is, in many ways, like Pip! You see, in the beginning, Pip lives in the village. But not too far into the book, he is sent over to Miss Havishams house to "play". This is exactly like a hamster at the PetSmart prison! You (a hamster) live, small, insignificant, in a cage. You wake up to see the same four walls, the same water tank and sawdust pile, the same newspaper stained with fresh, steaming hot piles of presents. Then, one day, you are removed from this poverty, the hole that you inhabit, and a human holds you for a little while. If you sqeak all cute and cuddly, you dont bite them or crap on their hands, there's a good chance they might take you home! But mess it up, and back to your cage you go. And Pip must have done something wrong, because he went back to his home one day and didn't visit Miss Havisham for many many years.

Later on in the story, Pip is adopted by a wealthy family and moves out to London, only to realize that his home in London is equally bad, for different reasons, as his home in the village! The same can be true for a hamster, a family adopts one, only to neglect it or keep it locked up the whole time. You see, the hamster's situation has not improved, and neither has Pips.

On a side note, although Pip deals with many difficulties through his changing life, he always manages to survive and stay strong somehow. The same is true for the hamster: it suffers many setbacks in it's adoption, such as possible neglection and castration (or worse, a life of wearing experimental makeup and disgusting perfume), it still stays strong, and continues to life it's life to the fullest, taking in all the beautiful sights from it's dark cage and exercising daily. It also makes healthy eating choices, only consuming organic sawdust and free-range food pellets.

Keenan signing out :)