Post by pinky on Aug 29, 2009 21:56:30 GMT -4
I have had hamsters for ten years, but never more than one at a time, and in that same time period I have never known anyone save myself who had hamsters save Mal and Jayde's rescue mommy, Stacey. I'd never been to Stacey's house, though--when I got Mal and Jayde I picked them up from her at her husband's business. I knew she had birds and dogs and critters. . . and finally today I got to meet everyone! It was so much fun! No, I didn't take photos, but. . .
She has an African Grey, an Eclectus, a Pionus, two parrotlets, and a parakeet, and she has two dogs. As for critters, in-house right now she has a mouse, a gerbil, and four dwarfies. I got to play with three of the four. All four came from that rescue of the 13-hamsters-in-the-abandoned-tank back in June. There is a female dilute black, a male dilute black who is seriously chubby, an agouti female who is very small despite being an adult, and the "mommy hamster"--the only female of the 8 in that tank who was pregnant and had pups (three, all of whom have been adopted). I didn't play with "mommy" but I did play with the other three. In spite of their less-than-wonderful history they are such nice hamsters--not bitey at all. The agouti is hilarious to watch as well because she is a climber--she scales the bars of her CT cage with ease.
So to play with three hamsters over the course of an hour was a real treat for me. The only down side was that when Stacey showed me the hair loss she found on the black female two days ago, I noticed blood in the hamster's genital/anal area as well. So to the vet she goes on Monday. Hope it's nothing serious. To me the blood looked to be coming from the anus. In the worst-case scenario it could be the beginning of a rectal prolapse, I suppose. But that doesn't relate to the hair loss at all. If the blood is genital in origin then it could be a reproductive problem and the hair loss could be hormonally induced, like Mal's was.
Anyway, I had a great time, and, well, maybe I will decide to foster one of the dwarfies. . .
She has an African Grey, an Eclectus, a Pionus, two parrotlets, and a parakeet, and she has two dogs. As for critters, in-house right now she has a mouse, a gerbil, and four dwarfies. I got to play with three of the four. All four came from that rescue of the 13-hamsters-in-the-abandoned-tank back in June. There is a female dilute black, a male dilute black who is seriously chubby, an agouti female who is very small despite being an adult, and the "mommy hamster"--the only female of the 8 in that tank who was pregnant and had pups (three, all of whom have been adopted). I didn't play with "mommy" but I did play with the other three. In spite of their less-than-wonderful history they are such nice hamsters--not bitey at all. The agouti is hilarious to watch as well because she is a climber--she scales the bars of her CT cage with ease.
So to play with three hamsters over the course of an hour was a real treat for me. The only down side was that when Stacey showed me the hair loss she found on the black female two days ago, I noticed blood in the hamster's genital/anal area as well. So to the vet she goes on Monday. Hope it's nothing serious. To me the blood looked to be coming from the anus. In the worst-case scenario it could be the beginning of a rectal prolapse, I suppose. But that doesn't relate to the hair loss at all. If the blood is genital in origin then it could be a reproductive problem and the hair loss could be hormonally induced, like Mal's was.
Anyway, I had a great time, and, well, maybe I will decide to foster one of the dwarfies. . .
You really need to get a digital camera. An old used one will works just fine; I have one. And it does not have to be new and have 15 megapixels! Six or seven will be plenty, and older cameras have those.
