Make Sure It's A Hamster

Make Sure It's A Hamster is the first ever episode in The Ruff Ruffman Show. It's in the season Ruff Ruffman's Small Pet Pet-Sitting Service: Now Accepting All Small Pets (Small Means No Rhinoceroses!).

Plot
Blossom is on vacation for a few days and Ruff and Chet and going to land their first pet sitting job on Bluff Ruffman. He tells Ruff and Chet to pet sit a hamster named Fluff for a few days.

Ruff is very excited to pet-sit Fluff and can't wait to see Blossom's reaction when she sees the hamster. However, when Fluff arrives, Ruff is shocked to see that Fluff isn't a hamster at all! He's a big, playful rhino with a red spiky tag. Fluff crashes through the wall and starts to play. Ruff calls Bluff to scold him for lying. To make matters worse, Blossom is coming home in three days and she's not going to be pleased when she meets Fluff. Bluff tells Ruff to put a leash on a rhino before saying, "Listen, I'll pick him up next week."

Ruff tries a hamster leash but it's not long enough. He and Chet decide that they're going to have to make a leash. First they try toilet paper, but it goes snap. Then they try sausage strings. That doesn't work either much to Ruff's disappointment ("Well, there goes my breakfast.") Ruff learns that it isn't just the length that counts it's the strength.

Ruff and Chet hides in Ruff's pantry and two kids call him on his iBone. Ruff asks the kids for help. They accept, but then ask for the materials. Ruff says he has three: Crepe paper, liquorice and plastic bags.

The kids start with the crepe paper. They tape it to a Zip Lock bag. The Zip Lock bag is then filled with coins. The crepe paper snaps after they put in their fortieth coin. Ruff, Chet and the kids learn that crepe paper won't make the best rhino leash.

Then the kids try liquorice. It breaks after they put in their twentieth coin.

Lastly, they try plastic bags. Ruff says it's not a good idea because "plastic bags are useless". The kids point out that plastic bags aren't useless - they can be pretty strong. They use all the money and the plastic break doesn't snap at all!

Ruff ties the plastic bags together and tries to use it for the rhino leash. However, when he tries, the plastic bag leash snaps. Chet examines the hamster leash and finds out that braiding it makes it extra strong.

The kids braid the plastic bags together and tie them to a chair leg. And it works!

Ruff puts his braided plastic bag leash on Fluff and Fluff stays calm - most of the time.