give the gerbils a box

And don't expect to get it back. The gerbils can completely dismantle and dismember a box in less than half a day. Put the box in and they sniff around, climbing into it and scratching around. Until they realise that they can bite it. And they chomp crazily.

Like this:

Chomp...          Chomp...          and Chomp...

After that Gerby laps up the water crazily. It must be really tiring chomping all that cardboard.

the babies

This is a post dedicated to our two babies, Salt and Pepper. They are very grown up now! In fact, as of today, they are 3 weeks old!

Hello, Salt! Looking for something?

Salt wanders out of her house...

...and inspects around.

Meanwhile, Pepper is already outside. He looks in the corner.

And presses his nose against the plastic tank. Looking for something, Pepper?

Aha he found it. The chew stick! Which was not in the corner.

We are proud to say that Pepper is able to stand up without falling backwards! Salt falls backwards, but hope she learns. And pepper, being the ever lovable hamster, lets you pick him up, and will even crawl onto mummy's hand!

Sleepy post

It's been some time since the last update. Why? Because our hamsters and gerbils have all been sleeping. Don't believe us?

Fatty lying outside her house, on her back. She's such a baby. Look how soundly she's sleeping!


Fatty, this time by the food dish. She loves sleeping on her back, though not all the time.


Gerby lies on her side below the wheel.


Told you our hamsters and gerbils were all sleeping.

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All in the Family

alright, so this is my first post! as mummy to the (now) NINE munchkins! it's crazy looking after so many of them, and they have all kinds of different habits too!

right now, most of the attention goes to salt and pepper, the 2 babies.. pepper still cant poo by herself so needs a little help a couple of times a day..

as for the rest, they just get a little handling twice a day, ball time (to run around in their exercise balls) every evening, and feeding twice a day.. sounds quick but it really takes quite a lot of time!

their feeding habits are as such now:

Cookie: Marukan nut mix (twice daily)
Cotton: Marukan nut mix (twice daily)
Creamy: Marukan nut mix (morning), Gex pellets (evening)
[special arrangements as we are still trying to help her gain weight after giving birth, without engorging her cheek pouches]
Butter: Organic mix (twice daily)
Fatty: Gex pellets (twice daily)
Herby & Gerby: Hamster Delight (twice daily)
Salt & Pepper: Fresh salad (morning), Organic Mix (evening)
[nb. fresh salad prepared by mommy, consists of grated carrots and broccoli mostly, sometimes other vege]

look out for more updates about day to day life!

(i'm a stickler for routines while ben does the exciting events and stuff!)

salt and pepper

Cream gave birth, the morning of two wednesdays ago (the first of April). Nope, it's not a joke! The babies are already twelve days old =)

escaped

Yesterday, Fatty flumoxed us into frantically flipping and flapping feverishly around the living room.

She escaped, sometime in the morning, but we did not realise till the evening. We hereby conclude that she has the ability to:

(1) push open the ajar cage door

(2) fall great heights without crying

(3) climb agily up to the top of her cage

What a crazy baby.

We found her, after the loss of 6 pellets from her food dish placed in the middle of the living room confirmed that she was indeed still in the house. A few minutes later, we got her as she was trying to run away. The sneaky girl!

Who is safe in her cage and running like nothing happened.

cutie!

No words need to be said. Just some cute photos of fatty! =)

cookie and cream

In case any of you have been wondering, what happened to cookie? And her pregnancy?

Let's get some facts right. Cookie was not pregnant. She was just...fat. And to think that I smsed Aunty Cora everyday to check on Cookie and whether she had popped. But nothing to pop, never pop.

And in fact, just two days ago, Cream gave birth.

In the middle of the night, to three (number pending verification) healthy pups!

We can see one of them here:

This pink thing which moves and squeals. Yes, it squeals a high pitched squeal, which is often heard when they accidentally come unlatched from feeding position. And they only grow silent when Cream painstakingly gathers them all and cleans them. Don't you think she's awesome?

We don't have many pregnant photos, as we only realised Cream was pregnant 2 days before she gave birth. And we are not lousy hamster owners, just that we had been observing her grow to Cookie's size, and we thought she was fat, until we took a photo of her:

I think it's quite obvious that her neck is rather skinny till her shoulders, before she sort of pears out into a pear shape. Nice tummy there, Cream!

Meanwhile, what of poor Cookie? Cream turned aggressive just one day before she gave birth, and we had to move poor Cookie into a spare plastic tank which we had:

Cookie, in her small tank, scouting her cardboard box and carboard tube and new red bottle. (Note: not all in picture)

Anyway, she fell asleep soon enough in what I call, the pokeball position. I choose you, COOKIE-MON!