During my judge training, I decided that I really needed to get a feel for what the species of hamster I have not owned are like on a daily basis so at the last show in Shurdington on 27th October, I picked up this lovely little guy from the Sales Table...
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Metallica Hamstery, on Flickr
He's a Sapphire Winter White and he's ever such a sweetie but very different in the way that he moves compared to the Chinese. Unlike the Chinese, that usually have names inspired by the entertainment industry, I have decided to call him Nero after the Roman emperor as Bath is a Roman city and I had, at one point, wanted to call my hamstery after the Roman name for the City of Bath.
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Metallica Hamstery, on Flickr