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Yesterday I went to the pet supply shop to get some fresh bedding and bath sand for the gerbils. I made a tactical error: I took the children with me. The past few times this has not been a mistake, because the pet supply shop has largely been depleted of its stock of adorable baby animals. Not yesterday, though.
We came home with this.
This is Tiny. She's a six-week-old Roborovski dwarf hamster. They are famous for being fast and difficult to catch, so guess who was the first person to lose hold of her when performing her first ever health check? Yep. That was me.
One more picture, because I can't quite believe she's not going to grow much bigger.
[NB: We did acquire gerbil bedding and bath sand. Cheeky and Nibbles were particularly active and adventurous this evening. It's almost as if they realised they needed to up their game.]
We came home with this.
This is Tiny. She's a six-week-old Roborovski dwarf hamster. They are famous for being fast and difficult to catch, so guess who was the first person to lose hold of her when performing her first ever health check? Yep. That was me.
One more picture, because I can't quite believe she's not going to grow much bigger.
[NB: We did acquire gerbil bedding and bath sand. Cheeky and Nibbles were particularly active and adventurous this evening. It's almost as if they realised they needed to up their game.]
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Tiny may be the same type of hamster that one of our friends had; he chewed open the cardboard box on the way home and was eventually lured out of the exciting tunnels and crannies of the footwell with a large leaf of lettuce.