Introducing Carrot and Nobby.
First order of business, I just noticed that people's legitimate comments on my blog are being thrown into the junk file by an over-enthusiastic spam filter in my blog software. If your comments have failed to show up that may be why. And I apologize. For all threads, the comment count will probably not change when you leave a comment until I put up a new post. It's a buggy system. But if you click on the comments link at the bottom of the post, your comment should appear pretty quickly. If it does not, please email me and let me know. I've also adjusted the filter level, and that should help.
Now, on the the real reason I'm posting. As you all know, my beloved hamster Binky passed away last week. We miss him terribly, and I missed having a hamster a lot. So we went to the pet store. I wanted another Syrian hamster, but my husband wanted a pair of dwarf hamsters. The Chinese dwarf hamsters were looking all cute, and he managed to convert me. We don't have pictures of them yet, but I'll work on that soon. We named them Carrot and Nobby. You see, Binky was named after Death's horse in the Discworld series, so we decided to continue the trend and named these two after two members of the Watch. Carrot is brown and Nobby has is brown with a bit more white on him. I think the pattern is called "dominant spot" in the terminology of hamster people.
They're very spastic little creatures. I'm used to larger and slower hamsters. Carrot already almost escaped once. Binky was lazy and never ran on his wheel. Nobby has been running on the wheel for about the last 3 hours. They're quite friendly little guys, but they're still a bit too skittish to really handle. We're hoping they calm down and slow down at some point.
We got them both from the "boy" cage at the pet store and so he hope like crazy that they're both boys. In a few months we'll know for sure. With Chinese hamster you'll be able to tell because the males have huge scrotums and the females are the ones giving birth in the corner.
In other news, I finally got the back pay that I have been owed for the last 8 months. Hopefully this means I can go back to the US for a visit soon. Also, there is some important girlalive.com news coming in the next few days, so stay tuned.
Alana
Now, on the the real reason I'm posting. As you all know, my beloved hamster Binky passed away last week. We miss him terribly, and I missed having a hamster a lot. So we went to the pet store. I wanted another Syrian hamster, but my husband wanted a pair of dwarf hamsters. The Chinese dwarf hamsters were looking all cute, and he managed to convert me. We don't have pictures of them yet, but I'll work on that soon. We named them Carrot and Nobby. You see, Binky was named after Death's horse in the Discworld series, so we decided to continue the trend and named these two after two members of the Watch. Carrot is brown and Nobby has is brown with a bit more white on him. I think the pattern is called "dominant spot" in the terminology of hamster people.
They're very spastic little creatures. I'm used to larger and slower hamsters. Carrot already almost escaped once. Binky was lazy and never ran on his wheel. Nobby has been running on the wheel for about the last 3 hours. They're quite friendly little guys, but they're still a bit too skittish to really handle. We're hoping they calm down and slow down at some point.
We got them both from the "boy" cage at the pet store and so he hope like crazy that they're both boys. In a few months we'll know for sure. With Chinese hamster you'll be able to tell because the males have huge scrotums and the females are the ones giving birth in the corner.
In other news, I finally got the back pay that I have been owed for the last 8 months. Hopefully this means I can go back to the US for a visit soon. Also, there is some important girlalive.com news coming in the next few days, so stay tuned.
Alana
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Posted by: mom | January 28, 2008 08:59 PM