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Hamster Technical Unsupport

posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 09:26pm on 11/01/2007
You remember when the hamster ran her ball into the front of my computer and hit its reset button? I now put a board in front of it when she's out.

And she's just rolled round into the back of my computer, and knocked the audio jack half out. Grrr!
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posted by [identity profile] inulro.livejournal.com at 09:27pm on 11/01/2007
None of my hamsters have ever done any damage while running in their balls. Which is just as well when you consider the carnage the rabbits are capable of inflicting on my house. Plus, computers live upstairs & hamsters live downstairs.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 09:41pm on 11/01/2007
I could send mine round to visit :-)

I wouldn't mind a cage of degus, but I guess I'm a bit far away.
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posted by [identity profile] inulro.livejournal.com at 05:39pm on 12/01/2007
I don't know how well degus travel. It wouldn't be safe to keep them in the cage all the way across the country, and I don't believe the small animal travel box which they couldn't chew through in an hour has been invented.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 09:33pm on 12/01/2007
How about a small animal travel box, inside a slightly larger travel box? They could chew through a bit but not be able to get purchase on the outside box (bit expensive though). Or someone could ride shotgun with a box of degus on their lap saying "No" sternly every five minutes ;-)
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posted by [identity profile] robthefish.livejournal.com at 09:49pm on 11/01/2007
Experiment: Continue to add more hamsters in balls until complexity arises - a self organising group intelligence! Rather like a mobile rat-king? Perhaps, at this stage, their interactions with your computer will spontaneously optimise its performance?
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 10:08pm on 11/01/2007
No! I have a photograph to upload of the hamster's previous Horrifying Exploit and do not wish her to team up with anything!
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posted by [identity profile] inulro.livejournal.com at 05:41pm on 12/01/2007
I have two hamsters and limited time, so they both go in their balls at the same time. Usually the rabbit is out at the same time. It looks like they gang up on him, but what is actually happening is probably that they can smell each other & want to destroy each other, & the rabbit is just caught in the middle.
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posted by [identity profile] watervole.livejournal.com at 09:52pm on 11/01/2007
I read today that hamsters use balls and wheels a lot less if they have a deeper layer of litter in the bottom of the cage. Apparantly they prefer to burrow if given the choice.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 10:03pm on 11/01/2007
She likes to clean her sawdust down to the glass, and pack the horrid extra stuff away into an igloo. Seriously, I don't know how she fills it so full, and packs it so tight! You're meant to sleep in there, you durn fool hamster...

The gerbil liked burrowing when we switched her from sawdust to peat.
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posted by [identity profile] inulro.livejournal.com at 05:40pm on 12/01/2007
In my experience, dwarf hamsters love to burrow, but the Syrian ones not so much. I think maybe because they've been domesticated for so much longer.
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posted by [identity profile] dougs.livejournal.com at 09:53pm on 11/01/2007
You need one of these.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 10:01pm on 11/01/2007
Ha ha ha! I so absolutely do!
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posted by [identity profile] saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com at 10:13am on 12/01/2007
That is ssssssssoooooooooooo cute. I think Bugshaw's Hamster must be related to my cat - they seem to have similar prediliction - Good Luck
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posted by [identity profile] aardvark179.livejournal.com at 10:59am on 12/01/2007
She's clearly trying to play Katamari, but you haven't left around enough small things for her to pick up first.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 12:22pm on 12/01/2007
[googles] - heh! I could wrap items in double sided tape and see how she manages them...

I'm not inclined to wrap the ball in double-sided tape as that is how we learnt the lesson "If the gerbil stops making a noise with the ball, there is something wrong." Poor thing spent ten minutes stuck, having rolled against a box with some sticky packing tape on it!

"Heave! It's no good, I can't pull away, because I only weigh 35 grams and lack momentum!"
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