Meet Morge our new hamster!

This is Morge. We adopted him from Pets at Home. In general I don't like Pets at Home as they get their animals from breeder farms and the animals are prone to diseases because of this. They also sell animals to obviously irresponsible owners and I hate when they sell all the gerbils, for example, in one tank but leave one on it's own. Gerbils should never be sold or kept on their own if it can be avoided. I could go on but I would rant for ages! Anyway, the little card next to Morge's home while he was waiting to be adopted said he was a she, called Tilly and he was around 3 months old. Well, Morge is a boy they always seem to get this bit wrong! We are not used to big hamsters, we have always had the dwarf variety. Love Morge already, he's really tame and funny to watch. Miss my little dwarf hammies though!

Sugar Plum Fairy

We only did this because hammie wanted to and it doesn't hurt him. Please never do it unless you know what you're doing and make sure the hamster is only a couple of cm from the ground.

Hamster Climb

Put the sound on for this one :-)

How many hamsters can you fit in a wheel?

Naming competition

Well, I thought I would write my first proper blog post as it has been a long time and because I have something that I want to write about. Of course as usual it is animal related, I bought FOUR Roborovski hamsters today!!! Animals are always cheerful and entertaining to have around and these little guys were just too cute and hilarious to resist. I would never buy just one hamster because it would be lonely but with most hamsters they do have to sadly live on their own becasue they would kill each other. However, these tiny critters prefer to live in groups and we thought we would buy the whole group of brothers rather than leave one or two behind. They are all clearly very attached to each other. They are 8 weeks old apparently and they are the smallest of the dwarf hamster variety. The pictures don't show how tiny and sweet these things are! So far they have settled into their new home straight away and they are extremely curious and friendly. They also run around like lunatics and climb across the ceiling of their cage. I have also seen them sleeping and they sleep in a big pile one on top of the other. Awwww, bless. I will put better pictures up soon. Horace and Hermes our two gerbils will not be left out either, we love them just as much and we bought them a new toy today. They received a log cabin, which they seem to think is for eating rather than climbing inside but oh well!

Anyway we haven't named the four tiny hamsters yet so if you have any suggestions we would like to know.