Hampsters...

[MyNameHere]

I got a new hampster a couple of days ago. she's quite sweet and tolerates handling very well. Not at all the bitey monsters I remember from my days as an indentured servant at Pestco.

Anyway, here is Molly in all her hampsterness:
"What's over there?"

She has excellent personal hygeine

She's very athletic

"What was that sound!?"

Hampsters seem to be better appreciated as pets in other parts of the world, but whatever, they have their merits as a pet rodent.

 

[nightbreed]

Ahhh too sweet luckily I'm not a diabetic

The second pic looks like she is begging for mercy

 

[Wikkids_Wench]

Cute - I always enjoyed handling and just watching the pet hamsters I kept. Of course, retrieving them when they escaped and climbed up the chimney or got into the coat rack and went sleeve exploring was slightly less fun...

 

[Tangled WWWeb]

My wife has a group of Campbell's dwarf hamsters. I generally detest rodents, but these guys are actually kind of cute.

 

[Icey]

After a full year of pleas, we finally gave in and got the small fiend (smiling face pictured at left) two hamsters, horrid little bitey creatures, I keep trying to feed them to the cat but he's not interested...I wonder how big a tarantula has to be to take down a hamster? :evil:

 

[Imegnixs_Cinder]

We used to have hamsters, they kept dying tho despite my mouth to mouth efforts lol. My kid has mice now instead, but those are wicked cute pics!

 

[nightbreed]

IIRC hamsters tend to have heart problems which may of been the cause of the fatalities you describe, when I was a kid I had one drop dead after a friend of mine set off a party popper to close to its cage, poor little blighter

 

[Imegnixs_Cinder]

Ohh thats so sad!
Ours have suffered all sorts from fits, heart failure and being strangled! Gave up in end lol

 

[defour]

I still have psychological scars from some of the Syrian hamsters I encountered as a kid. I'm sure there are a few nice ones, but I'm more of a rat guy. I do have a little colony of Russian hamsters, though, as a result of having to raise some finicky little snakes that wouldn't touch mice. I like these ones a lot, and they seem to be tasty as heck. I'm having fun watching for new colors. The original pair are wild type, but produce black offspring often, and the other day I realized that one of the newest babies was a very light blonde color. I may put it in a separate cage and make a pet out of it.

Steve

 

[MyNameHere]

IIRC hamsters tend to have heart problems which may of been the cause of the fatalities you describe, when I was a kid I had one drop dead after a friend of mine set off a party popper to close to its cage, poor little blighter

Yeah, in my years at Pestco I remember the stories of people who kept getting hampsters every few days or weeks or so just to have them die inexplicably even though they were doing everything "right". One of my co-workers suggested the hampsters may have been having heart attacks because of other stuff going on near the cage. :-/