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Originally Posted by souffle
I think they are both one of the greys either silver/dark/sepia but I have not seen enough greys to be sure. Jean Tye who is judging at Lymm will know for sure or Sheryl. Jean is a national judge and has quite a few unusual and rare colours herself and her creams are just stunning.
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Fantastic - this is partly (among many other reasons!) why we are coming to the show. I'm really looking forward to it (but a bit nervous as well!).
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Originally Posted by Basia
They had a lot of hamsters in that weekend and they were all sold by Sunday except for Sybil who I had looked at on the Friday and Saturday (said I go in there a lot ). I think she was meant to be for me.
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I'm so pleased she was meant for you, I'm a huge believer in that sort of thing and am sure Moxy was meant for me too - we have three hammies, the two who belong to the confident boys are little live-wires and the one that 'chose' me is a gentle, quiet confidence booster
..because of him I'm confident with them all now.
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Originally Posted by Basia
On the taming front I have been reading the Dk Hamster book (I know its meant to be for children) and it shows a little frame with strong mesh attached to it. The hamster holds onto the mesh and its supposed to make it easier to pick hammy up, brush him, etc. It looked quite a good idea to me but has anyone used something like this? If so would they recommend it?
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I have that book for my son so I know what you mean, I don't know if they make handling easier (I assume you mean for Basil as it sounds like you've got Sybil sussed already) but I know the judges use something simillar at shows to handle hamsters they don't know as I've seen pictures on the net and in a book.
One idea for Basil - we wash our hands and use a tiny drop of alcohol hand gel and, since we started doing that, our hammies have never nipped and take less interest in our fingers. We started doing it because I was a bit paranoid initially about bringing bugs home from work (I'm a nurse) and spreading any bugs between hamsters as well. They obviously now know the smell 'cos they quite happily climb on us but they obviously don't find it a tempting nibble!