Introducing Gordon and Derrick!

Carla Gordon and Derrick · 10-19-2016, 02:35 AM

Hi everyone!

I'm new to this forum having recently welcomed Gordon and Derrick the robo hamsters to my little family

I'm Carla, I'm 26, work as a marketing manager for a tech consultancy, and live in London with my boyfriend (aka HamsterDad as much as he hates that name now haha).

Totally in love with these two little boys. Looking forward to picking your brains for tips on looking after them!

Thanks,
Carla

P.S. Gordon is the whiter one eating kiwi, and Derrick has some more brown fur and is drinking from his water bowl!

flowerfairy · 10-19-2016, 04:33 AM

Aww they are beautiful. I love roborovskis. I have two. Sisters. They fell out after a couple of weeks with me but are now happily separate.

Look forward to seeing updates about Gordon and Derrick.

cypher · 10-19-2016, 05:10 AM

Welcome Carla, Gordon and Derrick

Congrats on your boys they are adorable, look forward to seeing more of them!

It does look as though you may need to make the water a bit easier to access, either try to find something smaller & shallow with low sides or switch to a bottle, or two with a pair.
I know the big green shop seem to give all their hams kiwi these days for some unknown reason but it really isn't good for them, too acidic, it's better to stick to safe veg & only give fruit of any kind are a rare treat really.

Carla Gordon and Derrick · 10-19-2016, 06:01 AM

So I usually give them Harry Hamster as their food and scatter feed them, and they have a water bottle but Derrick has recently decided not to use it so I gave him a little water bowl yesterday and he seemed much happier. I'm replacing the water bottle with one he'll use though

The kiwi was a treat as a one-off yesterday. I'll try some safer fruit and veggies as a treat though

So lucky to have such cute little hamster friends! Hopefully they don't fight, but we have an 'emergency' smaller cage in case they do so we can separate them quickly until we get a second bigger cage.

Thanks for the tips

xx

pinkneon · 10-19-2016, 06:20 AM

They're adorable!!

BorisPasha · 10-19-2016, 07:13 AM

Welcome to HC, your two boys are very cute

badwolf · 10-19-2016, 08:21 PM

Oh they're both adorable! I might have to hamnap Gordon though <3

Josie · 10-26-2016, 04:15 PM

Welcome to HC Carla, Gordon and Derrick, your two boys are very cute, look forward to seeing more of them

Thin Lizzy · 10-26-2016, 08:49 PM

Hi Carla and Welcome to HC, congratulations on Gordon & Derrick, they're so beautiful!
Gordon so made me laugh with him on his bowl and Derrick looked so sweet on his water bottlr.

Carla Gordon and Derrick · 12-12-2016, 07:48 AM

I just wanted to share an update on life with Gordy & Derrick.

They're settled into their cage well. We've got rid of all the shelves in their cage as a few squabbles started, and since then there have been no fights or signs of them!

They are so adorable together and Derrick wants to copy everything Gordon does. If Gordon's running, Derrick wants to run on the same wheel, when Gordon moves to a new place to sleep, Derrick follows him etc. And luckily Gordon doesn't seem to mind at all!

They have a wooden house, a plastic house, a snuggly pouch, and two water bottles each with a hidey hole underneath, but for some reason they've decided to burrow under their wheel this week and make their new nest there. Typical way to snub mum haha!

For little robos they are doing so well at only a few months old! They will happily sit on my hand and have a seed, and even like trying to climb my arm. Derrick has picked up a habit of occasionally wetting himself when he's sitting on HamsterDad's hand too which is so cute in a gross way. He'll look a bit nervous, wet himself, and then move to sit on a different part of the hand to not get his fur wet, before having a little sand bath :')