Well, it all started about a year ago. my local small pet store was having an aniversary celbrationa nd runnong a raffle contests. One prize was a dwarf hamster and a cage. there was no limit on how many tickets you put in or a fee to enter. so I proabaly put in 30 tickets. teh day of teh drawing i called ot see if i had won and made a comment that i real;ly wanted teh ahmster. the next morning i got a call that i had won. I hurried up there only to find that the pet store lady had put my name on the hamster cage! I was soo excited~ i picked out a hamster and my friend who lives with me couldnt resist getting one too. she bought another cage. 2 weeks later we went in and held some new hamsters and fell in love and ~~Boutght them~~. 3 weeks later the same thing happened. and then we bred some hamsters. and later bough 3 more. and bred some more. and bough one more. we are weak when it comes to those tiny little faces!
I had the sweetest hamster one time named Hammy. And he was getting old and one day wasnt moving and i was so sad! He just laid on my bed with me while i cried. But we thought he was dead so my brother put him in a box getting ready to burry him and he MOVED!!!! (its like he knew when we were doing) So i laid with him all night and the next morning he was hard as a rock :( It was soooo depressing for me. I loved him.
When I was little, I had a teddy bear hamster named Bandit.... then got a female that I can't remeber what I named her. Bandit was way cool and I took him everywhere. Anyhow, they had babies and we had some sort of fleece in the cage for them to nest in. One of the babies (they look like chewed up bubble gum wads) had gotten his little paw tangled in the fleece and it cut off the circulation to his paw and it blew up like a balloon. We got it off and the vet said it would never be the same. He was wrong.... he grew up and I named him Bubbles. (I had the B name thing going on when I was little too!) Anyhow, Bubbles died a tragic death, I will not share cuz it is rather bizzare, but I have always loved hamsters.
Awwww....makes me remember my hammies. I had three when I was a kid. The first animal I ever had was a hammie. They are great! Hubby wants a teddy bear hammie or one of those tiny ones..sheesh I forgot the names of them now. I am like, where are we gonna put em?..lol