Tag: hamster videos

Baby Hamsters (Short but Sweet)

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Gee, with all the pets I’ve had, I never had baby hamsters. Unknowable mentioned them and sparked my interest.

Here are three babies learning how to enjoy their hamster wheel. So much nicer than twanging the bars of the hamster cage all through the middle of the night. That’s what my hamster did. Much better to use an aquarium with plastic sides.

(It could be worse. I had a quartet of tree frogs that, um, “sang” all night, loudly. My housemates didn’t appreciate it. The frogs were returned to the wild.)

Hard-Boiled Hamster

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I hope that headline didn’t strike you as too gruesome.

I never knew a hamster who ate hard-boiled eggs. (And I must be getting better, because that egg sure looks good to me!) It’s not like your turtle, who’ll eat anything. Do we have any eggs in the refrigerator?

An Astounding Feat of Hamster Strength

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I guess animals are just way more athletic than we humans can ever hope to be.

Here a hamster climbs an uncarpeted flight of stairs. Could you do it, if you were his size?

I don’t know what he expects to get, once he’s climbed all the way up–but it must be something really good!

Why Hamsters Have Chubby Cheeks

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In this video, Tinkerbell the hamster decides to unload her cheeks. We missed the time she spat out, in addition to a lot of seeds, a desk lamp, two paperback books, and half a dozen toy army men.

So why do hamsters have chubby cheeks? So they won’t need pockets!

Hamsters Give It a Whirl

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I never had one of these flying saucer wheels for my mice; maybe they hadn’t been invented yet.

These look like young and inexperienced hamsters learning how to get the most out of their wheel. Two things about hamster videos always impress me: how can their legs move so fast… and how come they don’t get dizzy?

Houdini the Hamster

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In this video, obtained at no small risk, you will see three hamsters demonstrate remarkable gifts for escape artistry. You will also see a hamster who wants to eat mealworms. This isn’t gross when a frog or a lizard does it, but we don’t want to see mammals chowing down on these.

Hamsters’ Bath-Time

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I didn’t know hamsters love sand baths. I thought it was only chinchillas. Now I wonder whether my mice would have enjoyed sand baths.

Is it true that hamsters, decades ago, were grumpy little animals that have since been bred for nicer personalities? The ones I see in videos seem jollier than hamsters used to be.

Turn in Your Cat Card!

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Isn’t this disgraceful? What could be more pussilaminous (if you’ll forgive the pun) that for a cat to flee from a hamster? And a rather small hamster, at that!

“There are old hamsters, and there are bold hamsters, but there are no old bold hamsters.”  –Ancient Bithynian Saying (obviously untrue, in this case)

Cuddly Cat and… Hamster?

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When I was a boy, hamsters were these grouchy little animals that some people liked anyhow. Nowadays they’re nicer: all that breeding has paid off.

But who would’ve thought a hamster could ever be cuddly with a cat?

We may be getting a glimpse into God’s plan for all His creatures–including us.

Hamster Puts the Whammy on a Cat

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I wouldn’t try this at home, but apparently the hamster is perfectly safe because the cat’s afraid of him. Indeed, the hamster acts like the cat’s not even there. How can this be?

Our cat Henry showed no interest in our pet mice; but that was because we had a tankful of baby fence lizards (hatched here at home!) that quite occupied his fantasies. I wouldn’t have trusted him with a baby lizard for two seconds.