It has been a little over two weeks since Bethany lost her hamster, Cookie. I think Cookie just died of heart failure. Poor thing. Of course, I guess I'm glad that I'm the one that discovered her dead...and not Bethany. However, the sight of that poor thing will not leave my mind.
Her new hamster, Pete, seems to have gotten used to us, for the most part. I think Bethany is disappointed, though. She got another male Teddy Bear Hamster so that Pete and Jacques could play together. Pete seems to be scared to death of Jacques and won't have anything to do with him.
We have a playpen area for them. And in it is various hamster climbing and gnawing things. I also bought this big running wheel thing that is up on legs. The hamsters have to climb up this tube and into the enclosed wheel. As they run in the wheel, it rotates around the circular platform. Pete climbed up into it and he keeps running in the wheel first one way...and then the other. It seems to be driving him crazy trying to figure it out. Cookie did the same thing at first. Jacques was never all that interested in it. Mainly becuz he is rather lazy. That...plus he has an equilibrium problem. He will fall over backwards a lot. We took him to a vet and I paid $98 for a $3 to get well. It didn't work. But he has learned to deal with it...and we have too.
So much for pets.
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