Hamster food expense inversely proportional to hamster size

[bugshaw]

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!

Comments

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

Hamsters, the inkjet printers of the pet world.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Heh :-) Their output is fairly good and consistent quality, but the range is limited.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Well, similarly (not sure how the dpi works out equivalently)

[inulro.livejournal.com]

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.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

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 :-/

[inulro.livejournal.com]

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.

[saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com]

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!

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

I guess this is because food is made by humans, but hamsters are made by other hamsters, who work for less.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Hamsters work for peanuts, pity the peanuts are so expensive...

[inulro.livejournal.com]

:-)

Oh great, now there's soup all over my monitor.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

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!

[watervole.livejournal.com]

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.