Hi all,
It's been ages since I have posted on here, and unfortunately my first post in a long time is asking for a favour
I'm going away in August and I'm struggling to find anywhere for the hamsters to go. All my friends have cats and many have no experience or knowledge of hamsters. Last year when I went away, the hamster stayed with one of my sons school friends and I picked him up to find a broken tank and flies making their home in there, and the year before that Peanut got his head trapped when an inexperienced sitter closed the cage up on him, which upset me greatly, so I'm understandably anxious!
We have 3 hamsters. Jerry - a Syrian, and Burt & Ernie (same tank) - two Russian Dwarves (Hybrid?). Jerry is incredibly tame, whereas Burt & Ernie are relatively new and so are still in the taming process. Ernie is fine, but Burt is still timid and needs regular gentle handling everyday.
The whole process of finding sitters for the hamsters
and the cat is making me rather anxious now, so I hope there is someone here living close to Southampton who can help me out and look after my hams! The cages are rather large, so space is required!
I'm away 4th - 16th August if that helps!
Thank you very much for reading
Helen