Ponder

[nooboo]

someone pointed out that what with the fighting and the babies, a certain hamster was getting rather left out (no not mrs whitlow she is on the keyboard as we speak someone remind me to get more shots of her ) so this is a picture show of my evening with ponder



it helps here to know my dinner was a french stick and chicken breast, proper slices of meat not bernard mathews stuff. i may have been passed a hamster without the chance to wash my hands first.



ponder shows how she feels i have been ignoring her too!





yummm mummy your hands smell lovely and tasty!





where did the hand go? there must be chicken here somewhere





nope none down there





mummy has it i must climb to her and steal it!





i am comming for my food mummy! (she is right on me here (not that i was lying in bed being lazy wrapped up in a blanket, she came up and snuffled my nose looking for food)





yumm that was some good eatting (i had but a bit of chicken to one side, i felt she had earnt it)





is there any chicken off the bed? hmmm seems a long way down....





lets do a cute dance instead for more chicken!



so there we go one evening with ponder (she is in her floor ball as we speak.) i apologise ponder for not mentioning you enough!

[Pendragon]

Oh bless her, I didn't realise she is so small! Sweetie!



Actually I don't wash my hands before handling mine... I suppose I have been spoiled by many, many years of rat-owning- rats are bright enough not to mind, and I subconsciously hope my hammies will be too.



My hams seem very laid-back, or maybe because I expect more of them, they meet the challenge? I know Scree is timid and flighty even though he has been handled daily since birth - he's almost 11 weeks but now after a lot of 1:1 he's gradually chilling.... maybe that's all they need, 1:1 TLC, which they would get in a new home, with no smell of strange hams either if it's an average pet home. But I have to say Albert Einstein was chilled to the point of horizontal from day one.... still is, and that's what made me keep him... I don't regret that!



It's all about understanding them as individuals I think, and adjusting your own attitude to theirs... and they do seem to be much more highly individual than rats, which makes sense because hams are not social creatures, meaning they aren't born with the ability to conform to social expectations.



Pon's a darling... been through a lot, and if ever anyone needed a "poster girl" to illustrate how draining it is on a young girly-ham to have babies too young, she could be it. (Please, no offence meant to either you or Dave! although you can give him a quick upside the head from me if you feel like it! LOL).



Mmmm.... Friday night... very late... I make it Too-much-beer O'clock.... tee hee

[nooboo]

she was over 4 months when she had the litter. i blame more the fact that she was sold to me at 4 weeks, seemed to be that litters runt, and is too stupid to grow... since i got her she has always been smaller than shadow, making me do everything i can to help her, she has been on high protien from early on.



i dont think that the litter helped. but i really do blame the age she was sold at, and the time she must have been taken from her mum when she was a little runt. Am i being odd thinking this, or is the breeding at 4 months more likly? and i am just being anti the breeder for no reason?



dave will get a clip around the head when he wakes up, but its 6 am on saturday (why am i up?!?!?) so i will let him be for now. here is a pic of him holding her, his big hands help to show just how small she really is.