Post by pinky on Nov 18, 2012 18:24:54 GMT -4
After Ping died I started looking for hamsters with stories, as usual. On Petfinder I found four or five. The one who tugged most at my heart was this one:
www.petfinder.com/petdetail/24035668?mtf=1
And exactly who would be attracted to a hamster with that name and description? ME!
It took a while to arrange the trip thanks to the hurricane and being too sick to even handle Mable, but I made the 1.5 hour drive today. That it was sunny was a big plus--it helped to keep the car warm despite the chill.
She had been described to me in an email as "a challenge," but I was prepared with a toilet paper roll in my purse, and I was able to get her out of the cage and into my hands. A little nibbling, but nothing like I expected. Overall, she looked healthy (if extremely pudgy), and so she came home with me. (Well, she would have come home with me regardless--given how she was described and her weight, would anyone have adopted her? This was like Frasier and Ethel all over again.)
She has already set a record, though. . . . Frasier and Ethel were 82 and 65 grams, respectively, with their congenital fluid pouches that added 5-10 grams. My little Jill is a whopping 87 grams! Her cage was wheel-less, and she had been in-house for 2.5 months. . . . well, now she has a brand-new Silent Spinner, and hopefully the chub will just melt away.
Pix from her homecoming:
"Wow, this Carefresh stuff is cool!"
"I'm not fat, I'm curvy!"
"Me has my own seatbelt!"
She reminds me so much of Mallory, who was also an agouti RC and came to me as a chubster as well (didn't have a scale back then, but if memory serves me Jill has her beat). I think she's going to be a sweetheart once she settles in, loses half of her current self, and regains her agility.
www.petfinder.com/petdetail/24035668?mtf=1
And exactly who would be attracted to a hamster with that name and description? ME!
It took a while to arrange the trip thanks to the hurricane and being too sick to even handle Mable, but I made the 1.5 hour drive today. That it was sunny was a big plus--it helped to keep the car warm despite the chill.
She had been described to me in an email as "a challenge," but I was prepared with a toilet paper roll in my purse, and I was able to get her out of the cage and into my hands. A little nibbling, but nothing like I expected. Overall, she looked healthy (if extremely pudgy), and so she came home with me. (Well, she would have come home with me regardless--given how she was described and her weight, would anyone have adopted her? This was like Frasier and Ethel all over again.)
She has already set a record, though. . . . Frasier and Ethel were 82 and 65 grams, respectively, with their congenital fluid pouches that added 5-10 grams. My little Jill is a whopping 87 grams! Her cage was wheel-less, and she had been in-house for 2.5 months. . . . well, now she has a brand-new Silent Spinner, and hopefully the chub will just melt away.
Pix from her homecoming:
"Wow, this Carefresh stuff is cool!"
"I'm not fat, I'm curvy!"
"Me has my own seatbelt!"
She reminds me so much of Mallory, who was also an agouti RC and came to me as a chubster as well (didn't have a scale back then, but if memory serves me Jill has her beat). I think she's going to be a sweetheart once she settles in, loses half of her current self, and regains her agility.
Best to you all.
