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    Opinion: A case for Hong Kong's hamsters

    Hong Kong's government is directing anyone who bought a hamster in the past five weeks to surrender their pets for euthanasia after 11 of the animals tested positive for the coronavirus.
    by Scott Simon Jan 29, 2022 1 minute
    A hamster sits in a cage after being adopted by volunteers who stopped an owner from surrendering it to the government outside the New Territories South Animal Management Centre on January 20, 2022 in Hong Kong, China.

    A fluffy new symbol of dissidence has surfaced in Hong Kong: the hamster.

    The small, twitchy-nosed fuzzballs fit well as pets in a bustling city of apartment dwellers.

    But: someone who works at a pet shop there, one customer, and

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