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Old 11-22-2018, 04:06 AM   #61
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Aww, Liquorice is just the cutest! I'm so sorry that she has bitten you again and you have had a cold, SKB. I know that all was forgiven instantly and it must have been extremely hard not to be able to play with your two little ham darlings while you were waiting to recover from your sickness. I'm so pleased that she is gaining her confidence so much and her sweet, playful personality is really coming out more each day. I had to laugh at her giving you the "innocent" expression after just being caught chewing, lol. I definitely have seen that "innocent?" look on Eros numerous times, too. It makes me crack up laughing each and every time and makes my heart melt all the more, lol. I'm glad that she is enjoying her hazelnut, too. She looks too cute and absolutely lovely in all of her pics. Her coloring is becoming even more vibrant, too. I totally love those eyes!
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Old 12-03-2018, 10:36 AM   #62
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Thank you Thin Lizzy, cypher, Coco61, Sasha04, pinkpixie, BorisPasha and dreamtree1234 there is no stopping Liquorice confidence it really starting to blossom now. I love her expressions and her cheeky smile - he colouring is becoming more rich as she grown up.

The hazelnuts have been a big hit with Liquorice as like my Sherbet, she enjoys to chew on things that are round. Although the hazelnuts haven't distracted her attention from the legs on her knuff shelf though!

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Liquorice's Christmas Cage and Her Naughty Antics

Liquorice has been blossoming recently her confidence has grown so much since I last updated you all that I can almost see it radiating from her although she still has moments which she feel uneasy but we are working on this especially trying to get her more familiar with different people (as it helps if I need to take her to the vets – hopefully no time soon) but some people she is curious and will come over to the edge of her playpen to see and other like my mum who she will hear her voice and will hide behind me and won’t feel comfortable until she know she isn’t in the room. But at the moment I am just happy if she just comfortable around me.

Playtime have been going wonderfully – she is always so excited to come out that one day I decided to instead of getting her out before I go to cook my dinner that I would do it afterwards as I was still a bit tired from work but at 5:00 she was out wondering why she hadn’t been out (typically playtime would be 4:15) – when trying to inform her I would get her out later she looked at me confused and decided instead that she would occupy herself in her cage. When it time for playtime I will call her and she will emerge fairly quickly from her nest beneath her silent runner shelf and will happily either climb into my hand or be picked up. But whenever she out in her playpen she has so much fun – she races around at her full speed, rubbing her hip on everything including myself (as I sit in her playpen with her) and will attack her rosewood hyacinth and seagrass tunnels – she loves chewing these – until she is ready to go back in her cage after a few cuddles. Once she returned to her cage she eagerly await the arrival of a treat which she gets for being a good girl. I tried getting some photos of her whilst in the playpen but when I had my camera out she was more interested in climbing in my lap so only could get these two photos ...


Recently I have been really noticing when Liquorice is in heat – not by the smell as she doesn’t smell as half as bad as some of my past girls – but by her naughty tortie being on full display. When she in heat she is wild! So excited to see me constantly wanting attention and cuddles – that as soon as she sees my hand that within a flash she climbing up my arm. I don’t think she realises that she is a terrestrial animal when she in heat as all she want to do is climb – even the other night she would climb up on top of her new bottle holder and when I switched my light on as I was in bed she was siting on top of her bottle looking as proud as can be – that why now that has a kitchen roll tube on it as that was so nerve wracking to see. She will even try to climb up her wheels despite them spinning around which leaves her to be standing on one leg whilst the other three are pushing the wheel around – sometimes she standing ontop of a tunnel whilst doing this balancing as the tunnel is wobbling slightl! But last night she was climbing up the willow wreath at the back of her cage then reaching the wire top to do monkey bars!!! At least she manages to gracefully get down. Although the funniest moment happened last night, amounst her craziness she managed to get a piece of corn husk – which she chewed off one of her chew toys – on her face across her nose, despite her energetically demanding cuddles it remained balanced on her nose, I was laughing so hard that I tried to get a photo but she knocked it off before I had a chance.

Like Treacle, Liquorice cage has also had a Christmas transformation although I haven’t fully finished decorating Liquorice’s cage as I was trying to do whilst she was in her playpen – which wasn’t entirely easy. But here is how it looks at the moment , she seems happy with it. Cage looks a bit empty to me so ordered her a few more chews toys to help fill up the more empty spaces up – plus she loves chewing.


Plus here a few more cute photos of Liquorice …

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Old 12-03-2018, 10:37 AM   #63
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Awwww! So cute!
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Old 12-03-2018, 11:16 PM   #64
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Great to hear how confident Liquorice is now & how much she's loving play time
Lovely photos of her as always.
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Old 12-04-2018, 05:50 AM   #65
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Aww, she is so, SO cute and I totally love her silly, crazy side of her personality! She makes me giggle and fall even more in love with her (if that could even be possible as I love her tons already). I am so thrilled for the two of you that she is now even more tame and enjoying her playtime with you so thoroughly. Her running up your arm, demanding to get cuddles, and having her outside-of-the-cage sessions with you when she thinks it is time just makes me giggle. She is quite the stunt ham inside of her cage, too. I'm sure she keeps you on your toes and you couldn't be happier. I love all of her gorgeous, charming pics; her coloring is getting even more vibrant and impressive each time I see her. Please give your two amazing ham-gals tons and tons of cuddles for me and let them know I'm one of their many fans. Btw, awesome Christmas cage theme for Liquorice, too; I look forward to seeing all of the new chew toys you purchase for her, too. I'm sure she will have the greatest time ever playing and nibbling on them, lol.
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Old 12-04-2018, 08:32 PM   #66
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Aww loving the confident Liquorice, she really is oozing confidence SKB, such a lovely bond between the both of you. I so love her Christmas themed home. I've brought a few things for Noah, P@H always have nice stuff.
I hope Liquorice becomes more confident with your mum, that's weird how she hides when she hears her voice.
I always giggle reading about your beautiful girl's naughty antics, but looks so innocent.
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Old 12-06-2018, 02:17 AM   #67
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Liquorice is as beautiful as ever! Great festive cage setup. Hope you have a brilliant Christmas with your gorgeous sweet girls!
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Old 12-08-2018, 04:10 PM   #68
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Lovely photos! She's sounding like a bit of a handful now, I'm sure she's lots of fun to have around So sweet that she waits for play time every day too.
The cage is looking all festive too and looks brilliant.
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Liquorice is such a beauty and she sounds like such an adventurous stunt ham lol. I'm still amazed by the things they get up to. She's such a character and I'm glad she's getting more confident. Hopefully she'll soon get used to your mum's voice too

Her cage looks lovely as usual, she always do such a great job with your cage themes
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Thank you mzwiwy, cypher, dreamtree1234, Thin Lizzy, pinkpixie, mangoandmimi and BorisPasha.

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Happy Christmas and Updates

Well her Christmas cage wonderland didn’t last very long before she rampaged through it – let’s say her cage is an utter mess but she happy with it. Luckily her Christmas chew toys still haven’t been chewed to pieces yet like the majority of her other chews have been. She has also been getting into the festive spirit of rocking around the Christmas tree – well more like climbing her pom pom tree which then begins swaying as she clinging onto the side!


I had mentioned in my previous post that I had ordered some new chews for Liquorice – I ordered from minipetz.com one of my favourite places to get chew toys for my hamsters from – as I find these woven type chews are a big hit with my Syrians, plus I can use these to make my own chew toys. As Liquorice had chewed up all the spares I had stored away – I bought loads more for her including a pre-made hanging toy which I thought she would love. Plus I DIYed some of my own hanging chews as well as a new garland inspired by the one I had made Pumpkin. This is Liquorice investigating the chew I had bought premade - she even been climbing up it too!...


Liquorice and my bond have been going from strength to strength – she truly is a special girl even though we had a lot of up and downs through taming. Liquorice now associate me calling her name as it time to come out for playtime – so will emerge from her nest to enjoy all the fun her playpen has to offer. During a playtime the other weekend she became fascinated and obsessed with climbing up me and sitting on my head. As soon as I placed Liquorice back down she was up on my head within a flash! It was like it was her way of surveying her kingdom! After her playtime Liquorice get a treat which she always so eager to receive, once she either pouched or eaten her treat she will disappear back to the depths of her house where I won’t see her again until the evening. Here is Liquorice enjoying an apple chip the other day!


Although after one of her playtime I thought I would see her reactions to the dried shrimp I had bought for Treacle. Well let’s say she looked at the shrimp in utter disgust then looked at me with an expression which just made me laugh – it like she was thinking are you trying to poison me! I then offered her a mealworm from the same bag – same reaction even though she loves her mealworms wouldn’t even touch it as it smelt like the shrimp! Although I do agree with Liquorice as the shrimp do smell revolting!

As she gained confidence I have been seeing her adorable belly more often especially in the evening when she demanding my attention – and how can I resist an adorable torty belly – so when I offer her my hand she will hop up in a flash and will begin climbing up my arm if I don’t begin to lift her up quick enough for her liking. So most evening we have a long cuddle session before either Liquorice or myself goes to bed.

Here are a few additional photo of Liquorice …


It a special day for Liquorice tomorrow as it her very first Christmas! I don’t think she knows yet that she will be spoilt with lots of presents from Santa Paws! Liquorice also wanted to wish you all and your hamsters a wonderful Christmas!

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