The Hamster Channel, now broadcasting in high-definition

The cat was used to watching The Hamster Channel through a metal cage-within-a-cage. All those metal bars made for a rather grainy picture. But now that we have moved one hamster into a glass tank, the cat can watch The Hamster Channel in high-def. As you can see, he’s loving it. [...]

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Peace through partition

No, this isn’t about Iraq, or Pakistan, or Vietnam, or Germany. It’s about the rodent members of our household.
Peachy and Snowy are dwarf hamsters, which means they should be happy living together as a pair. However, either they didn’t get the memo, or else the pet shop was wrong in labeling them as [...]

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He sees you when you’re sleeping

He knows when you’re awake,
He knows if you’ve been bad or good,
He’s the cat above your cage!

Luckily the hamsters are not at all perturbed by the large hairy beast who we finally caught lurking over their heads.
And see the little white paper next to the cat? That’s the Christmas card E gave to M. [...]

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So a hamster walks into a bar….

Saturday night while we were all eating dinner, I realized the hamsters would probably appreciate a bit of the fresh salad we were having.  As far as I knew, they’d spent the whole day holed up sleeping in their little plastic coconut, so I commented that I hadn’t seen them lately.
“They were out drinking earlier,” E told [...]

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Hamster update

We’ve named the second hamster Peachy.  Between the pale almost-pinkish-brown fur, the pink eyes, and the fact that she* is so fat as to be nearly round, it seems to fit.  M’s best friend thinks we should name the hamster Cocoa, and M wants to stick up for his friend, so occasionally the critter gets [...]

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Name That Hamster

When E was a child, her family had an all-white dog. In later years, E had an all-white cat who was her much-beloved constant companion through nearly all of her adult life, until he passed away a couple years ago. So when we went to buy a pair of new hamsters last weekend, and found [...]

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It’s another sad day in hamster-land

When E got up this morning, she discovered that our hamster N died in his sleep last night. We’d known that N was not long for this world. About a month ago, we’d discovered he had a tumor growing on his stomach, and while he was still often capering around like his usual [...]

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Feline viewers love THC: The Hamster Channel

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Making it into *our* house, part 3

It’s been a tough weekend to be painting; it was 93 degrees and incredibly humid. But we’re starting to feel quite a time crunch to get things done before E moves in. So although this post doesn’t come with more before-and-after pictures, you can just picture the last couple of walls in the living [...]

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Sometimes it pays to be late to church

S here; we were running late for church this morning, so we wound up parking on a different street than we usually do. When we walked back out to the car after church, what should we see on the curb near our car but this:

Just yesterday E and I had had yet another discussion [...]

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