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Old 01-17-2011, 04:45 AM   #11
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Oh gosh, I hope Olivia doesn't pee on my netbook! haha. I never even thought of that
Ha yeah, chubster My mum says she's fat! I disagree, she's just cuddly

And anorak, she probably is a hybrid if you bought her from there. They told me themselves, they pretty much never have pure breeds in. Though I live in the city, so it might be different if you're from a more rural area where less commercial breeding takes place?
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Old 01-17-2011, 06:24 AM   #12
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Yeah, I am from a little town. I don't mind what Noodle is though, as long as she is happy and healthy
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Old 01-17-2011, 06:27 AM   #13
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That's exactly how I feel about Olivia
You could probably find out if you really wanted to know at any point, though, by examining Noodles a little more closely - I realised Olivia was probably a hybrid when I noticed she was the colour of a Winter White, with the body of a Campbell.
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Old 01-17-2011, 03:20 PM   #14
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I must admit that Noodles looks a lot like Olivia. And also seems to share the same love of Broccoli! I will have a look at the body shape of a campbell. Actually when I bought her they said she was campbells, but she has the fur and colouring of a winter white!

*edit* actually in her cage when I bought her when she was with her sisters there was a little white hammy with red eyes. I was lead to believe that winter whites did not have this colouring....?
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Old 01-18-2011, 05:30 AM   #15
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If her sisters were red eyed she is a hybrid - red eyes have only come about through hybridistation, as have all the different colours, like argente.
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Old 01-18-2011, 05:59 AM   #16
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Awww, my little Noodles is a hybrid! Bless!
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Old 01-18-2011, 06:02 AM   #17
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She is in good company Noodles! Boz and Johnson are hybrid, as is Fluffymunchkins Treo.
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Yay! Do you know if the life expectency is slightly higher with the hybrids at all?
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Old 01-18-2011, 06:36 AM   #19
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Im not sure Noodles tbh . . . hybrids typically have more health problems though, as a result of the 'bad' breeding, so they are probably more likey to have shorter lives, but if you have a healthy hybrid and a healthy pure, I'm not sure if one would be more likely live longer than the other?
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Old 01-18-2011, 12:40 PM   #20
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Since they have the Winter White colouring, do you think it's likely that they would whiten if their daylight hours were shortened?
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