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Hamster food expense inversely proportional to hamster size

posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 01:42pm on 24/06/2013
Pets At Home have stopped stocking the dwarf hamster food, in store and online. forpets still stock it, £2.99 per 700g bag, plus £2.10 P&P up to 2 kilogramms. But charged me £4.25 P&P for two bags after I had entered PayPal password so I lost courage and sucked it up :-/ Hamster was only a fiver!
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posted by [identity profile] vicarage.livejournal.com at 12:59pm on 24/06/2013
Hamsters, the inkjet printers of the pet world.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 01:03pm on 24/06/2013
Heh :-) Their output is fairly good and consistent quality, but the range is limited.
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posted by [identity profile] bibliofile.livejournal.com at 09:31am on 25/06/2013
Exactly. Well, similarly (not sure how the dpi works out equivalently)
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posted by [identity profile] inulro.livejournal.com at 01:06pm on 24/06/2013
Because I used to have hamsters in a variety of shapes and sizes, as well as gerbils, mine always got fed the generic "hamster and gerbil" mix - I think it's Wagg - that I buy from the supermarket, with no problems. Gerbils like it a lot more than Geri Gerbil too.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 01:11pm on 24/06/2013
Watch me spoil my dwarf hamster rotten with special small food for small hamsters with delicious tasty mealworms! He gets to share Big Hamster's food at a pinch. I'm just grumpy that I can't buy a nice bag off the shelf at my local shop any more :-/
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posted by [identity profile] inulro.livejournal.com at 03:14pm on 25/06/2013
Mealworms, you say? Gerbils would love that - they're allegedly insectivores in the wild. I keep meaning to buy the big cheap containers of mealworms that Wilkinson sell, but - well, ew, mealworms, and I'd have to mix them in with the rest of the fooc.
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posted by [identity profile] saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com at 02:18pm on 24/06/2013
Cats can be the same way. My Neri was a gift so cost nothing. Now the cost of her upkeep runs around €20.00 a month x 12 months x 12 years = BUT SHE'S WORTH IT!
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posted by [identity profile] pseudomonas.livejournal.com at 02:33pm on 24/06/2013
I guess this is because food is made by humans, but hamsters are made by other hamsters, who work for less.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 02:36pm on 24/06/2013
Hamsters work for peanuts, pity the peanuts are so expensive...
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posted by [identity profile] inulro.livejournal.com at 03:16pm on 25/06/2013
:-)

Oh great, now there's soup all over my monitor.
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posted by [identity profile] tamaranth.livejournal.com at 06:40pm on 24/06/2013
for next time, my l33t Google Shopping shows me http://www.petshopbowl.co.uk/small-animals/food/hamster-gerbil/supa-hamster-dwarf-harvest-700g/
including 'Bottomless Bowl' and free shipping!
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posted by [identity profile] watervole.livejournal.com at 08:07am on 25/06/2013
Why aren't you writing to complain to them about being charged extra P+P?

I'm getting into the habit of trying to always complain about these things. It's the only way to get them to fix crap software. And I often do get a refund.
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