Thinking about Dwarfs.....

[megs]

pinky said:

Hey Megs--you know I'm all for owning small hamsters! How exciting to possibly get them so young!

How did that Proteins final go? You had a course just on proteins? Pretty specialized! Hopefully you learned a lot more than just how to draw histidine!

Jenna's and NP's cages (from your another forum post) look like they'd be a challenge to hide! Do you have big closets??

Yes, I am interested in at least a couple of Dwarfs from this litter. I will keep you posted.

The proteins final was pretty tricky, but it wasn't quite as bad as I thought it would be. I think I messed up alot of the X-ray crystallography stuff. Probably won't know for a couple of weeks. Slow markers! hehe.

Yes, I do have big walk in closets actually. So I can put the whole thing in there. Or, I can just down-size the cage and remove the tubes, collapse and hide everything and then put it back together after the manager has come and gone. Thankfully this is only once a year. N.P.'s cage isn't too big. I havn't had to hide it yet, but I'm not as worried about that one. It shouldn't be too hard to hide if she's only going to be in here for 30 seconds.

Recently, we had the pest control people in here spraying for bugs, so Jenna (N.P. wasn't with us at the time) had to be moved to my mom's house for a few days. We snuck her out at night in the main cage portion of the cage. She didn't seem to mind the small quarters too much for the few days she needed to be out of here. I didn't want to take any risks since their little respiratory systems are so delicate.

I hate apartment living. I want a house! My own house! One day

[Die Fledermaus]

When you get your own house you can start paying heavy property taxes to support bloated $100,000 salaries for teachers in schools where someone else's kids go; you can pay for all the repairs and landscaping yourself; you can worry about property values declining and undermining your investment.

BTW, therre is so much stiff in my closets I couldn;t sqieeze a mouse in them.

Oh yea, one of the new rescued gerbils has had a baby!! :0

[Die Fledermaus]

megs said:

. . . The manager has never figured it out and I've been keeping hamsters for almost 4 years. It's always fun hiding everyone when she comes in to change the smoke alarm battery!

I am glad you have fun. My landlord is a load of vermin.

[pinky]

I have X-ray crystal structures in my thesis, but my advisor did them. I know next to nothing about the technique. . .

I'm lucky that my landlords have no difficulty with hamsters. They let me bury Pinky Nose in their backyard after he passed in January. They are looking forward to meeting Fuzz when they return from Florida in a few weeks.

When I was looking for a place in this area, though, I ran across one landlord who said that I could have Pinky, but that I couldn't replace him when he died. Considering that he was 3.5 at the time, I scratched that place off the list. . .

I teach at the college level. $100,000? Not even close. I'd be happy with half that.

DF, congrats on the new birth!

[Die Fledermaus]

The salaries for teachers in Nassau county, NY are that high. Which is why the county went bankrupt. Salaraies for cops in nearby Suffolk are as high - and that is why property taxes are astronomical in both places. New Jersey is worse.

This landlord is such a creep for no good reason he will not allow dishes on the roof even though all other apartment houses in the area have them.

I just wonder if more gerbil babies are coming, or if there were others and she ate them. I left extra protein in the form of walnuts (shelled).