Hamster Technical Unsupport

[bugshaw]

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!

Comments

[inulro.livejournal.com]

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.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

I could send mine round to visit :-)

I wouldn't mind a cage of degus, but I guess I'm a bit far away.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

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.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

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 ;-)

[robthefish.livejournal.com]

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?

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

No! I have a photograph to upload of the hamster's previous Horrifying Exploit and do not wish her to team up with anything!

[inulro.livejournal.com]

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.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

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.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

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.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

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.

[dougs.livejournal.com]

You need one of these.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha! I so absolutely do!

[saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com]

That is ssssssssoooooooooooo cute. I think Bugshaw's Hamster must be related to my cat - they seem to have similar prediliction - Good Luck

[aardvark179.livejournal.com]

She's clearly trying to play Katamari, but you haven't left around enough small things for her to pick up first.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

[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!"