The munchkins have a new addition!

Welcome home, Summer =)

You must be really tired...

RIP

Good bye, Cream. You were wonderful.

She was still running the wheel this afternoon, yet no one saw her pass away. She was a great hamster, and still is in our hearts.

This is her life: recorded down

Our current setup

Part 2

The long long awaited part 2!!!

Apologies guys. Got caught up with work, but rest assured, the hammies and gerbies are all carefully tended too on a daily basis, or whenever we walk past their tank area.

Fatty lives in the biggest cage of them all. Her plastic box is durable, accessible and livable. Her entire floor is covered with fluffy bedding, and she often makes a nice mound to sleep on. Fatty eats the most too, as she is the biggest. She's also the first of our hamsters to use the toilet we gave her. She comes toilet trained =)

Salt and Pepper live together. Well, almost. They are separated by the divider in their cage, as we do not want them to mate. They still remain the best of friends, and they enjoy playing together in the playpen. Sometimes, they can be found lying next to each other by the divider. They groom each other through the bars, and Salt loves climbing up to the top, even doing monkey bars. Perhaps she's showing off to Pepper? =P

Last but not least...BUTTER! He's the fastest, the smallest, the hardest to catch, and a whole lot of other superlatives which there aren't English words for. He's our only roborovski hamster at the moment, and he's white-faced too! He runs at the speed of light, and is not very easy to catch. He has the best cage in a tank setup.

More to come!

Our current setup

Part 1

Herby and Gerby live in their own tank. They have a cardboard toy to chew up (we bought it from Pet Lover's) which is in the shape of a doll house thing. It has a back porch and a front yard and fences and an upstairs balcony. Sorry we don't have any photos =( Now, the whole basement has been chewed up and it's kind of lopsided. But nevertheless, our gerbils continue to sleep upstairs and in the rooms.

Cookie lives in our smallest tank; she has a dino for her house, and she really loves fluffing the fluff =) she is rather minimalistic, having only a wheel for company. But hey, she runs pretty fast! Cream lives in our orange cage, and she has a wooden house for sleeping under. However, she prefers to fluff up the fluff and bury herself underneath it all. Sometimes we have difficulties spotting her!

Cotton lives in our blue cage, which is identical to the orange cage, except for it's colour. Haha. He has his big green house (our first house we bought) and loves it. We can often hear him scrabbling around and arranging the fluff inside the house. Neurotic!

Watch out for Part 2 over the next few days! =) it will contain details about Fatty, Butter, Salt & Pepper! =)

The Munchkins...have been revived!

With a bang!

Cookie & Cream still live separate. Both are really really old. As of the time of writing, they are 14 months old! Closely following behind is Cotton, at 13 months. Our 3 oldest hamsters. Guess who's our oldest gerbil? Well, that's easy. We only have 2 old gerbils. Herby and Gerby! And they keep giving birth like crazy. Maybe the saying 'breeding like rats' have some truth to them. But hey! Don't call them rats; they don't like it. 'Gerbil' is a better word for um...a better rat =)

Anyway, Herby and Gerby are officially parents to 23 babies! One died, so there are 22 of Herby and Gerby's kiddos out there! Imagine...22 of Herby and Gerby's replicas running around, eating, sleeping, chewing, hanging around... Cool eh? If you add the numbers (refer to the 'Babies' section out there), it's only 21! The last 2 are part of the new litter! =) Only 2 yeah...as 3 others died due to unknown reasons (perhaps due to immaturity at birth). Hope these two survive! It's one lighty (who's fat) and one agouti (who's active).

Cotton is as friendly as ever, he always wants to make friends with Cream and Cookie, but they respond differently.

Cream is quite receptive to Cotton; she will snuggle up with him, but if he tries to get too close, she'll squeak. Cookie will squeak as long as Cotton is within 5 cm of her. In fact, she may even SQUEAK and back off and fly off your hand. Sometimes, when we wake her up for dinner, she'll squeak really loudly and fly out of her dino house and try to bite you. I guess that's what you get for trying to wake a hamster!

That's all for today! Look forward to...

(1) Our current setup

(2) Our current food regime

gerbil babies

Apologies for the lack of photos. Again.

 

Herby and Gerby's pups will be 1 month old in less than a week. We are looking for good, caring owners to adopt them.

 

4 pups of 2 males and 2 females. One male is argente golden colour, while the rest are golden agouti.

 

All our other hamsters are happy and active.

 

Cheers!

the votes are in!

And it just proves that this blog has no visitors. Haha.

Cotton 1 vote.

Fatty 1 vote.

So it's a tie for now! Vote's still open =)

Some cute photos =)

Updates! Fatty, Gerby, Cotton and Butter are vying for the cutest rodent award. Please vote!

Well, technically, Gerby is just...pregnant. Or rather, was. She's given birth to 4 healthy pups now, who are not as active as previously but still...suckling well!

Cotton loves that corner between his food dish and the cage. Sometimes he even munches on a bit of food over there. How cute!

Fatty loves being carried. Here, she's supporting herself in Hammiemummy's hand, and staring at the camera. She actually looks like she has a pig snout. Haha.

Butter loves sleeping in a ball! He makes himself a nest amongst the fluff and goes to sleep, with his legs drawn towards his body and his back bent. Nice ball!

 

So now, vote!

Gerby
Cotton
Fatty
Butter

If the button does not work, send your response to bensing_AT_gmail_DOT_com =)

We are glad to receive your response!

new gerbil litter

3 golden agouti and 1 argente golden pups =)

quick update!

1) Fatty got a new bin. It's huge. Measurements to be confirmed.

2) Gerby is pregnant! Bump growing bigger by the day. She's still skinny though. May pop within the week.

3) Our new recycled paper bedding is a success. No sign of allergy (except Butter, who's losing some fur). No stink. Looks nice. Cheap!