Hamsters
musicismylife78
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I used to have a few gerbils as pets years ago, and really took a liking to them.
I now have this desire to go and buy a hamster.
Anyone have any as pets?
I now have this desire to go and buy a hamster.
Anyone have any as pets?
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Do we have any ass pets? I have always thought you were weird, but this Gerbil thing takes it to a new level
put on a slow, dumb show for you
and crack you up
so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
god I'm very, very frightening
and I'll overdo it'
hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
It is more apparent than ever that this kid needs to re-evaluate a few things..
put on a slow, dumb show for you
and crack you up
so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
god I'm very, very frightening
and I'll overdo it'
I put vodka in his water bottle....
He died 2 days later............
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
I always knew you were a jackass!
errrrr.......or should I say?
hehehehehehehehehehehehehehe.......
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
I think that hamsters are the worst choice of small pet (among hamsters, gerbils, rats, and mice.) They are cranky, and prone to biting. I had about four hamsters when I was a child, but have never gotten another one in over 20 years.
I highly recommend mice. They tend to be people-oriented. Gerbils like getting food from people, or being taken out of their cage for exercise, but they mostly bond with other gerbils. Hamsters would rather be left alone. The few rats I kept in the early 90s weren't very tame, so I can't give an opinion.
Mice are tiny, curious, and insanely cute! I've had about 37 mice since the age of 7. Each one has a distinct personality. I have 3 females in one cage: Giant Annoushka mothers the others with frequent grooming. Despite being obese, she has boundless energy. She is so happy that she jumps for joy when she walks. Tiny Lola has a neurotic condition called "waltzing." She runs in counter-clockwise ovals. She's the only one who jumps right into my hand without hesitation. If I'm wearing long sleeves, she climbs the fabric. Nova tends to get annoyed by Lola's behaviour sometimes, but luckily she has not turned into a bully. They play in the dry bathtub for an hour every night. I put down some newspaper, and make a playground out of boxes, tubes, blocks, etc. The mice are thrilled to be there, and they burn off their crazy energy.
I have a male mouse who lives separately. I adopted him from the Humane Society in August. What a sweetheart!
Mice take up almost no room. Their day-to-day expenses cost almost nothing. My current four cost a whopping TWO DOLLARS to feed each month! That's 50 cents each. I feed them a selection of organic grains from the bulk bins at Whole Foods Market, plus a little hay, veggies, and crumbs of my food. I gave up on wood shavings, so I cut up scrap paper for bedding. It's free! You can keep housing costs low by asking for free or cheap cages on Craigslist.
The only large expense I've had just occurred on Tuesday: A $91.39 vet bill. For years, the rational side of me has been arguing that a trip to the vet should be for euthanasia only. But my emotions won't let me kill a sweet pet that might recover. Two of the mice have a lung infection. It's not an illness with a high cure rate, so I was hoping to find a naturopath who could offer alternatives to antibiotics. Unfortuantely, 'Nushy' got worse so quickly that I didn't have time to learn anything new, or find another way. I took them to a conventional vet nearby who has a good reputation with exotics.
You lot are meanies for suggesting it's sexual!
Until a few weeks ago had two, but one escaped and hasn't been seen since. I have heard scratching in the wall, so hopefully it's still alive. At one point we accidently had about 18, I say accidently, according to a vet we supposedly had 4 boys, to our surprise 3 of them gave birth to umpteen babies. Quite a lot didn't make it, it was quite disturbing with some of them, I'd come down in the morning and find them being eaten by their siblings. Two I accidently killed, I was adjusting the cage and squished one under the wheel, the other one, I gave it a bath (there was a legitimate reason for this), turned my back for two minutes and the poor little thing had drowned in about a centimeter of water. I was very sad.
I love having hamsters, and they are great fun as pets, although they do sleep the majority of the day and run around most of the night, but as long as they aren't in the room you sleep in you should be ok.
In college they used to serve us these little stuffed chicken things that were the same color, size, and shape as a hamster. Everyone called them hamsters.
careful if you get more than one. they're horny lil fuckers...and they eat their young. I was slightly traumatized by seeing a little group of baby hamsters one morning ...and the mom with a foot hanging out of her mouth.
We prefer the larger rodents as pets because you can hold them, they try to communicate with peeping/squeaking/etc., and they live longer too!
We have guinea pigs and a chinchilla now. The chinchilla is the most darling pet you can imagine. He's been our little sweetie for about 9 years now. I'm going to be heart-broken when he finally dies.
Never saw the TV show.
Hamsters are quite possibly the biggest waste of flesh and fur. Get a snake or something, they'll give you just as much affection (none) and are significantly easier to take care of.
Am I the only one that thought of this classic radio bit when they first saw the thread title?
http://www.americanfilms.com/play.cfm?clipid=2946
ARMAGEDDON!!!!
(think it's the right one - no sound on my work pc)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/3102479 ... t-have-toy
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Need to get females..... males stink.