Vacation ideas: Would you want to live like a hamster?
- November 19, 2009 11:46 AM |
- By POV
A French rental home is giving people the opportunity to live like ahamster in a specially designed abode that features a running wheel anda crate made of hay.
The Villa Hamster, located in Nantes in western France, was thebrainchild of Yann Falquerho, a 42-year-old set designer, who felt thehotel industry had missed out on the little-knownanimal-transformation niche.
Sometimes, people really do just want to live like their caged pets, his reasoning went.
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Would you trade places with your pet? Have you ever dreamed ofrunning in a hamster wheel, or swimming in a fish bowl? What otheranimal-turned-human habitats would you like to see?
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