I bought my son one of these little cuties today...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

He's a dwarf Siberian hamster. My son named him Rico. Cutest little thing! :loveya:

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Uh-oh, cute attack!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. He's so sweet, too...

A little jumpy, as most hammies are when first handled, but he's not nippy at all.

[Shell Beau]

2. Awww! I remember I had a hamster in high school!

It got loose one day and I could never find it. About a year later my parents thought we had mice in the house and set out rat poison!! :cry: We found my HUGE hamster dead soon after. At least he had one hell of a year!!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

7. OMG!

You must have felt awful...
Then again, if he'd nibbled any wires, he would have been toasted.

[Shell Beau]

8. My parents tried to keep it a secret! I guess he had a fine time

living off of our food though!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. LOL!

Did your parents keep find nibbled food?

[Shell Beau]

14. Yeah! That is what made them think they had mice!

We live next to a field so the field mice to come and go!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

20. We often have a mouse or two who sneak onto the back porch

when the weather gets cold. They don't last long with the cat in the house.

[soleft]

3. Rico?

That's interesting. What made him name him that?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. He says it just popped into his head.

The name seems to suit him. :D

[trof]

29. He looks a little like Cagney.

;-)

[Reverend_Smitty]

4. I had a hamster when I was a kid

They are good little pets, easy to clean up after and tons of fun to watch run around in one of those little "hamster balls"

[GoddessOfGuinness]

13. I'll be helping him with cage cleanings,

since we have one of these complex contraptions:
And he'll be handling the food and water after he brushes his teeth in the morning.

[Reverend_Smitty]

woah! It's got a spiral slide!

That's not a cage, it's a hamster super-condo!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

22. He hasn't quite figured it out yet...

But I put a couple of yogurt treats in the exercise wheel and a mineral chew in the privacy cubby; so I don't doubt that he'll be visiting both of them soon. :D

[BarenakedLady]

18. That's the same exact contraption containing Beelzebub!

:thumbsup:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

23. I love the wheel...

I wish I had one for me.

[Parche]

5. Your son is a dwarf siberian hamster?

:shrug: :hi:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

15. He's as cute as one...

Though he's not as fuzzy. :rofl:

[BarenakedLady]

9. I had two of them

They both lived for a couple of years. They were cuties.

My daughter has an albino hanster now. The thing is the spawn of Satan.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

16. Spawn of Satan?

:rofl: I don't think I've ever seen a satanic hammie before!

[BarenakedLady]

17. Hammie is his new name actually.

I had named him Lucifer, but my daughter decided to change it.

He bites and has red eyes. He is evil.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

24. Does he bite your daughter too?

[BarenakedLady]

26. He will.

She doesn't try to pick him up anymore. She somehow gets him out to clean the cage though.

I was going to try to hand tame him, but haven't done the research yet. He was born from the neighbor's hamster. She was evidentally preggers when they got her from the pet store. The then evil spawn mated with his mother. His sister is also his daughter. :silly: I told you he was the devil.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

27. Years ago I had a pair of hammies named Franklin and Eleanor...

They had babies, so I moved Franklin to a cage of his own. What I didn't realize was that Eleanor was a cannibal. One baby survived, and once weaned, I gave him to my sister. He lived almost 7 years...

[Parche]

30. your daughter or the hamster?

:shrug: :hi:

[BarenakedLady]

32. Could go either way

Depending on the day.

:P

[trof]

11. Rico?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

19. Maybe he'll bust gangsters when he grows up.

:rofl:

[DarkTirade]

21. That's too small to make a decent meal... you should get a guinea pig.

:P

[GoddessOfGuinness]

25. I like guinea pigs too...

but not to eat. :spank:

[Bake]

28. I like puppies.

:-)

Bake

[GoddessOfGuinness]

33. Me too...

It's not a good time for a puppy, though. Hopefully soon. :D

[FloridaJudy]

31. Ever wonder what he's up to

Late at night, when no humans are awake?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

34. HAHAhahaha!

Pure EVIL!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

35. Tweaking for cuteness

[applegrove]

36. Cute but don't they contain THE PLAGUE? LOL I was just reading

something about the plague and they said it was in asian gerbils these days. Not to worry. Antibiotics can cure the plague these days.