It was an electric stove and I don't know if microwaves were even made then!!!! At our house we also had a baby lamb in the house once. Only for a couple days. I knew the little boys wouldn't listen to me about leaving the lamb in its box. So I put a pampers on it. Lo and behold when I came back to the house,the boys were playing with it in the living room. Got to love those pampers!!!!!