Just because you’re little and fuzzy doesn’t mean you can’t be nuts. These hamsters are determined to prove it.
Consider two things. 1) If a human being, like a hamster, were to run so fast that the camera could only record his legs as a blur–just how fast would he be going? And 2) why don’t these shenanigans on the wheel make hamsters desperately dizzy? That’s probably something NASA should investigate!
Well, okay, maybe he wasn’t–but as an explorer, he had nothin’ on the hamster in this video.
Imagine yourself in the Land of Huge Colossal Giants (about 12 miles south of Sayreville, NJ), stuck in a giant’s house where the risers on the stairs are ten feet high. Are you going up those stairs? Ah! But the hamster goes tirelessly up and down the stairs and all around the house, and even climbs up into somebody’s lap for a brief cuddle.
Determined little character, isn’t he?
A couple different people have told me that the video I posted yesterday, of cats reacting to cat videos, occasioned some consternation among their own cats. Well, I don’t want to acquire that kind of reputation. This evening, instead of cats or dogs, I offer hamsters. No one really notices whether hamsters like a video or not. They mostly keep those opinions to themselves.
Admit it–if you were a hamster’s size, you’d never get up this flight of stairs, not if your life depended on it. I knew someone once who was as small as a hamster, and he just couldn’t manage stairs.
But watch this little guy! He doesn’t just climb ’em; he climbs ’em fast.
If you think this video of a hamster exploring a dollhouse isn’t sufficiently exciting–well, a little imagination can fix that. Simply imagine that it’s a real house, a house for humans, and that the hamster going up and down the stairs is really that big. A gigantic huge hamster. Imagine a hamster as big as a pro wrestler scampering up your stairs.
As for the giant hand… Try to ignore it. Maybe it’ll go away.
When I watch hamsters do their stuff, I always wonder: how fast would a human being have to run, for his legs to vanish in a blur of perpetual motion? What would that look like?
Another thing I wonder about: how come the hamsters don’t get horribly dizzy from spinning themselves around and around so fast? How long would it take you to get riotously ill, doing that?
Gee, this has all the makings of a Youtube challenge–see who can stuff the most toilet paper into his or her cheeks. The winner gets to be **Famous**! Or have they done that one already?
Here is a hamster stealing toilet paper and stuffing it into his cheeks; but the hamster has a really good reason for it. You can probably guess what it is. No, it has nothing to do with showing up the other pets as peasants and poltroons.
This, he said, is what it means to be a hamster.
Now I have to try to post videos in a very roundabout way. I am trying to publish this crazy hamster video. Even today, it makes me laugh. The good Lord knows I need it!
Hamster balls hadn’t yet been invented, back when I had a hamster, so mine missed out on all the fun. Here a hamster demonstrates the technique of running around in a hamster ball–pursued by a bird who wants to get in on the act. Can you put a bird inside a hamster ball? What would happen if you put a jidrool inside a hamster ball?
Hamsters do a lot of things that are fun to watch–just just about impossible to understand. They give a new piquancy to the term “fall asleep.” They’re always eating. And how they spin around like they do, without getting helplessly dizzy for the rest of their lives, is something that merits serious investigation. Just in case we want to do it, too.