Well, I know I've mentioned her a few times, but here she is. This is Tinkerbell. She's 18 months old, someone put her on freecycle and a rescue I know got her from her previous owners from there.
The rescue put pics of her on the rat forum I go on which is where I first saw her. I showed my beloved the pics of her and told him how old she was and he was horrified that someone could give up an animal at that age.
To cut a long story short, she came to us because John felt so sorry for her. Naturally, I was more than happy to go along with his suggestion so she's come to us for her 'retirement'. She has some hair loss on the back end that we are trying to resolve... I may post about this elsewhere if it doesn't get any better soon.
She is very friendly, loves people and loves her out-time. She apparently spent the first 18 months of her life in a Crittertrail cage (the double height one with tubes up the side) - totally inappropriate for her size as she's quite a large girl.
But that's all in the past now.
Here she is:
Posing:
Sniffing at the Great Outdoors:
On the move:
"What's up there?"
Having a cuddle from her 'daddy' (John has really fallen for the hamsters!) :
Hopefully we will get her a better cage soon, once I can be sure of what sort of cage will be best for her. I wanted to get her a Hamster Heaven, but she's started bar gnawing and so I think she'll probably end up in a Zoozone 2 like Herbert. At her age it may be best anyway, as she may get less active in the next few months and the tubes etc might be too much for her. Any thoughts on this are more than welcome as I am still very new to hamsters. I have ordered her a (hot pink!) Wodent Wheel of course.
We just hope she is with us for a good while yet and want her to be happy here.