First lets talk about Fred. There are many memorable memories around this dude. The first one worth talking about is the time we lost Fred on a family road trip. We had bought him a steel bar cage that had the whole shabang. It had a wheel, a detachable hamsterball, a tube that went around the cage, a plastic igloo, and a wat er bottle. When we traveled in the car with Fred's cage we took the water bottle out to avoid it from leaking. The first time we did this, mid car ride Fred dissapeared. Naturally I was in a panic. When we finally got to our destonation we began taking everything out of the car in search of the hamster. Right when I almost gave up hope I saw Fred right at the gas pedals of the car. I dove for him in a desperate attempt to catch him. While I hit my head on the horn mid dive, I caught Fred and all was well.
All in all, Fred lived a fufilling life of two years. He now lives among the gods and will forever be with us.
Alright, well right off the bat it's worth noting that these next hamsters are dwarf hamsters. Contrary to Fred, these hamsters could live together without conflict. They were known to get along well and were not hostile. We bought these three female hamsters at PetSmart Here is what these hamsters looked like:
I am not sure why Rosie and Buttercup were named like they were but I know for a fact that I named Dorito because she smelled like a bag of Doritos. All was well for the first few months that we had got them. Rosie and Buttercup were cool but Dorito was agressive and smelled really bad. That winter when we went on vacation, tragedy struck. When we went on vacations we would let our neighbor watch and take care of the hamsters. Before we came back from our trip, we got a panicked call from the neighbors that one of the hamsters had died. Apparently the night before, a fight broke out where Dorito had killed Buttercup. Rosie has some wounds from the battle. It was a very sad day. Its one thing telling a child that their pet has died from natural causes but a whole nother thing to tell a kid that one of your hamsters murdered anotherone in cold blood. After this, I held quite a bit of resentment at Dorito.
A few months later I had begun to notice that Rosie had gradually begun to grow in size. While I did find this to be odd, I did not think much of it as I assumed I had just been feeding the hamsters too much food. One cold day in Febuary, I went to the cage before school to check up on the hamsters. When I tried to see Rosie, she would not come out of her plastic igloo. With my annoyance from this, I picked up the igloo and tilted it to have rosie roll out of the igloo. What happened was that Rosie most certainly did role out of the igloo, along with 11 pink squirming baby squirming hamsters. As Rosie went on damage control since now all of the newborns were sprawled across the cage, I yelled through the house, "ROSIE HAD BABIES."
For the next few months we raised these baby hamsters. We were naturally confused on how this could have happened as we had purchased all female hamsters and that it was to long of a period for Rosie to have gotten pregnat at PetSmart. When the hamsters were all grown up again, there was no way were going to take care of 13 hamsters so we went ahead and returned to PetSmart. We went ahead and asked the PetSmart employee on how this could have happened. He went ahead and first examined Rosie, then Dorito. Turns out Dorito was a hermaphrodite hamster. With this, we proptly gave away Dorito as we did not want another batch of baby hamsters. I was allowed to keep Rosie and two hamsters from the litter.
I will let you know that after this, Rosie passed away a few months later and I kept the last two hamsters for some more time. After this event, the hamster regime was over.
That being said it was a great time overall with these hamsters as great memories and stories can be told about them.
