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New hamsters from Freecycle!

posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 09:42pm on 06/12/2009


Meet Um, and Er... I haven't given them names yet. They're Roborovski dwarf hamsters, both female (the vet assistant has been Watching Them Closely for signs of Behaviour). Each one would fit comfortably in a tablespoon :-)
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posted by [identity profile] major-clanger.livejournal.com at 09:51pm on 06/12/2009
Aw, how cute!

Would you like the Dwarf Hamster Handling Gauntlets (+6 vs tiny rodents) back?
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 10:10pm on 06/12/2009
Hee! No, apparently they're not very bitey...
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posted by [identity profile] inulro.livejournal.com at 02:01pm on 07/12/2009
They can try, but the only place they can really bite is the skin between your thumb and index finger.

And even then they can't bite hard & it's still funny.

(I got my first set of Robbo's when I was depressed because Everything They Do Is Funny).
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posted by [identity profile] techiebabe.livejournal.com at 09:54pm on 06/12/2009
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

Can I suggest one is called Flash?
Edited Date: 2009-12-06 09:55 pm (UTC)
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 10:09pm on 06/12/2009
What an excellent name for a hamster! Oh, and a person too of course! Flash would go well with the gerbils Nash and Gnasher...
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posted by [identity profile] techiebabe.livejournal.com at 10:37pm on 06/12/2009
Nash and Nasher were names I was called along with Flash, before it stuck!

May I suggest Tash or Tasha for the second one, since you are into rhyming names to some extent (or seem to be stuck with them)?
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 10:38pm on 06/12/2009
Or Tache, if I can train her to perch on my upper lip.

Tasha Yar, HamStar!
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posted by [identity profile] techiebabe.livejournal.com at 10:46pm on 06/12/2009
That would work ;-)
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posted by [identity profile] sphyg.livejournal.com at 03:08pm on 07/12/2009
The other could be Thunder.
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posted by [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ at 10:16pm on 06/12/2009
SO cute!
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 10:27pm on 06/12/2009
They are sleeping side by side in a toilet roll because they are so small :-)
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posted by [identity profile] adelheid.livejournal.com at 10:46pm on 06/12/2009
Awww ickle cutie wutie hamster-wamsters!
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posted by [personal profile] muninnhuginn at 11:07pm on 06/12/2009
Are they actually only one push-me-pull-you hamster? They seem pretty much joined together.

But very cute.
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posted by [identity profile] tamaranth.livejournal.com at 11:10pm on 06/12/2009
BREAKFAST and LUNCH
no, seriously, they is Cute. Telly and Vision?

mmmm, bite-size snackettes
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posted by [identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com at 11:55pm on 06/12/2009
Yesssssss...
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posted by [identity profile] fivemack.livejournal.com at 11:36pm on 06/12/2009
Can you now understand how restrained I was, that Sunday that [livejournal.com profile] sonicdrift took me out for a bibulous lunch and then to the hamster shop. They had a whole box of Roborovskis and I didn't buy any of them.
Edited Date: 2009-12-06 11:37 pm (UTC)
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 12:25am on 07/12/2009
I can resist buying, but rescuing is a different matter. They have just discovered the wheel, and are finding they can run in parallel in it :-) Oh, and in series! And overtake each other! I worry a bit about their loop-the-loop exits...
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 12:27am on 07/12/2009
Oh, I am going to be woken all night by the sound of hamsters landing on their heads and noses :-/
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posted by [identity profile] inulro.livejournal.com at 02:01pm on 07/12/2009
It takes a while to get used to, but they're absolutely not hurt by it! (and it's funny).
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 02:08pm on 07/12/2009
Better than that - it only took them half an hour to learn how to slow the wheel a bit before the dismount. The funny thing now is watching one hamster try to join one that's already spinning at high velocity.
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posted by [identity profile] inulro.livejournal.com at 04:39pm on 07/12/2009
That makes them smarter than mine - I don't think any of them ever worked out decelerating - dead stop and getting flung across the tank seemed to do it for them.
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posted by [identity profile] ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com at 08:16am on 07/12/2009
Holly has padded off to the bathroom to see if there are any hamsters in our toilet rolls, Trudy is on my lap trying to cuddle her way into the laptop and Panda wants to know how many calories there are per tablespoon of hamster...

oh dear , am I oversharing ?
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posted by [identity profile] nmg.livejournal.com at 09:23am on 07/12/2009
V. sweet. My sister used to keep Campbell's - trying hard to persuade myself that Alex is too young for them.
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posted by [identity profile] woolymonkey.livejournal.com at 10:24am on 07/12/2009
Eeeeee! Monkeys want to visit, please!

Cats want to visit too, but are not allowed.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 02:21pm on 07/12/2009
Happy to have visiting monkeys (they do know that the hamsters are not stuffed with chocolate?)
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posted by [identity profile] ladymoonray.livejournal.com at 01:28pm on 08/12/2009
They are adorable! I want to visit now too. Unfortunately I think it might have to wait until NYE, because Mum goes into hospital on Thursday. Please keep posting photos :)
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