party of seven

Everyday now the routine is:

In the morning, mummy will take out all the older hammies and put them in their balls. The small nuts get maze time, while the gerbils are handled one by one.

At night, the bigger hammies get play pen time while the small nuts are put in their maze again. As for the gerbils, in the afternoon, they get to play in the play pen as they are rather restless in their tank.

Oh, did I mention they now have soil? It's way cool. We buried two secret compartments beneath the soil, and they dug both up to reveal the artificial burrows and spend most of the day lazing around inside!

The soil we use cannot really hold up. We added small bedding to the soil to firm it as well as to absorb odour, but it's starting to smell a lot like...soil. It didn't when we first started, and it has only been one day! We hope the smell doesn't take a turn for the worse =)

Cotton has also been neglecting his food. Put in quarter spoonful of organic every morning and night, and he always leaves some in his dish. Bad eating habits adopted at daddy's house? Perhaps =( Anyway, we plan to give him nut mix in the morning and organic at night. To make sure that he gains the weight he has to before we try introducing him to cookie and cream again! Only worry is that we give too much nut mix and he STILL neglects his organic food at night!

Cookie and cream are way cute, but they have been fighting with each other more often these days. Keep squeaking loudly at each other in their cage. But they still huddle and sleep together, so we're hoping they won't fight too much!

The only change is that cotton has been living around cooks and cream for 10 days etc. And the play pen we split to give the big hamsters a barrier through which they can see other. Quite a heartening sight when cotton tries to grab them through the bars, but they do squeak at each other across too! At least they can't tear each others' =)