So off Lilly, Whizzbit and I went to the vet today, my vets is lovely, and only two minutes from my house. They are all great, and make a huge fuss of the hams as they don't have too many come in, and I think I have the only robos. When I took ten babies in the whole place ground to a halt with everyone wanting to fuss over them. They have been amazing over the years with any problems we have, and saved Jam and Lilly's lives for which I will be forever grateful.
I normally go to the afternoon drop in, usually everyone there with their animals is lovely, I always ask about people's pets, and vice versa, people are fascinated by the robos as many people have never seen anything so small.
Not today though, today there was a woman with a lovely Labrador who sat looking down her nose at everyone else. She peered at Whizzbit and said what's that ratty thing? I said he's a roborovski hamster, the smallest of the species of hamster. She snorted and said her dog would eat it given the chance, that they don't live long do they, why would you bother bringing it to the vet, how can you even tell if it is ill.
I looked her straight in the eye, and kept eye contact with her the entire time, I said that her dog what lovely, I know a lot of people with the exact same dog, you see them everywhere don't you. That Whizzbit was very very rare, when I got his father there were so few in the country that I was invited to breed him, and then Whizzbit with two of the top breeders in the country's hamsters with lines stretching back to the introduction of the species in the UK such was his heritage.
That the same with any animal, as with her dog, any changes in behaviour, weight, activity, eating, drinking, temperament was how you monitor health. That the vets had done amazing things to save his uncle and Lilly, and how much they had done for all the robos, and how much attention and love they get from the staff. That any vets doing work placement are invited in whenever I take them in to learn about them and their care. That I have been studying them for four years now, and am still learning every day and I imagine will never stop learning.
She didn't actually say anything after that, but funnily enough when I came out she was all smiles, asking whether they were ok, and wishing them well saying how cute they are.
I kind of wished it was the Cloud I had with me, I would have invited her to stroke him
Rude Lady at the vet!!!!
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