Post by pinky on Dec 31, 2011 19:08:42 GMT -4
Happy New Year to all!
As you may recall, my scruffy boy Frasier passed not quite a month ago. Often I wait about a month before looking for my next critter, but since it's easier to find the extra time and do the required traveling during an academic break, and since last time it took a while to locate dwarfies in need I started looking at Petfinder sooner rather than later. I found a rabbit rescue about 1.5 hours away with an assortment of dwarfs, and I visited yesterday with cage in tow since chances were that if there were 6 eligible hams one of them would steal my heart. . . and it happened. Easily.
Meet Mable:
(Note that eyes are red, but I corrected the eye in this photo because it was brighter than Rudolph's nose despite the camera's red-eye setting, and it gave her an undeserved demonic look.)
As I wrote to others yesterday, when the rescue's feistiest hamster walks onto your hand to the amazement of the staff, it's a match! I have only handled her once since she came home, but she seems far gentler than her reputation would suggest, and she is less cage-aggressive than most of my dwarfs have been. I don't presume that we're already best buds, but this is a good beginning. And: she is the first dwarf I've had that has not required being placed on a diet!
Her story: she came from a Philadelphia shelter where she was housed with a bunch of other dwarfs. Naturally she was pregnant when she arrived at the rescue. Our estimate is that she's on her way to being 6 months old.
I am guessing that she is a mottled dove. One reason I was drawn to her is that her coloring is that of my dearest deceased Jayde, just different in presentation.
I hadn't thought of her as an early birthday present (birthday is today) till my brother pointed it out. But what a lovely present, then!
As you may recall, my scruffy boy Frasier passed not quite a month ago. Often I wait about a month before looking for my next critter, but since it's easier to find the extra time and do the required traveling during an academic break, and since last time it took a while to locate dwarfies in need I started looking at Petfinder sooner rather than later. I found a rabbit rescue about 1.5 hours away with an assortment of dwarfs, and I visited yesterday with cage in tow since chances were that if there were 6 eligible hams one of them would steal my heart. . . and it happened. Easily.
Meet Mable:
(Note that eyes are red, but I corrected the eye in this photo because it was brighter than Rudolph's nose despite the camera's red-eye setting, and it gave her an undeserved demonic look.)
As I wrote to others yesterday, when the rescue's feistiest hamster walks onto your hand to the amazement of the staff, it's a match! I have only handled her once since she came home, but she seems far gentler than her reputation would suggest, and she is less cage-aggressive than most of my dwarfs have been. I don't presume that we're already best buds, but this is a good beginning. And: she is the first dwarf I've had that has not required being placed on a diet!
Her story: she came from a Philadelphia shelter where she was housed with a bunch of other dwarfs. Naturally she was pregnant when she arrived at the rescue. Our estimate is that she's on her way to being 6 months old.
I am guessing that she is a mottled dove. One reason I was drawn to her is that her coloring is that of my dearest deceased Jayde, just different in presentation.
I hadn't thought of her as an early birthday present (birthday is today) till my brother pointed it out. But what a lovely present, then!
Dammit. Not sure how.
