Category Archives: hamsters

Munching cheesy poofs in heaven with Kenny now

I miss both Cart­man and Kylie, but Cart­man was one of the best cud­dling ham­sters I’ve ever met. I say this about all of my ham­sters because I believe it, but she was spe­cial. We bonded as well as a giant scary human can bond with a tiny prey ani­mal, and I miss her ter­ri­bly.
She

Genetically engineered for adorableness

Maybe this whole ham­ster cam thing is just a waste of time,” I think. Then Cart­man gets caught by the cam­era look­ing almost unfath­omably cute, and I have no choice. The cam stays.

Nights in Rodentia

I sleep a lot bet­ter when there are ani­mals around. I don’t know why exactly, but I think it’s pretty sim­ple: I like ani­mals. They com­fort me. They make me feel less lonely, but I know they won’t judge me if I thrash around or snore or talk in my sleep. I move around less

Visual Month in Review

I like my visual week in review posts, but I haven’t done one in a while. So now that I’ve located an SD card reader and finally trans­ferred things over, here are all of my cam­era phone pic­tures since mid-September, instead!
Included adven­tures are dog-sitting, an ill-fated trip to New York City, a night out in

Obituary: Northrup, Zachary T.

Zach died. I wrote a mock obit­u­ary for him which you can see here. I was so pre­oc­cu­pied with Dreamie, I didn’t notice any­thing was wrong with him. It’s my fault and I feel hor­ri­bly guilty.

Dreamsicle and a Milk-Bone: A Love Story

I had mis­placed my box of Milk-Bones. Then I found them. Dreamie is a big fan of this development.

My hamsterbabies are sort of almost famous!

Now that I have a ded­i­cated work desk again, I was con­sid­er­ing buy­ing the Cute Over­load desk cal­en­dar for 2010 and then stick­ing all of the dis­carded cal­en­dar pages on the walls of my office. The wall cal­en­dar is nice, too, but I like to go with 100% dog con­tent for my wall cal­en­dars.
Except WAIT

A new blog that is not so new

I’m start­ing a new, hamster-focused blog for pic­tures, news, and sto­ries about me and the hams. If that sort of thing inter­ests you, point your com­put­ing device to http://www.lifeinhamsterdam.com/.
This is a rebirth of sorts of the con­tent from my late, lamented blog that went with rodentbreak.com.  WIth that site, the domain name expired ear­lier this

Hail Hamster Satan

The Inter­net may, in hind­sight, regret pro­vid­ing me access to Pho­to­shop pat­terns that let me add flames to things more effi­ciently than usual.

Sunflower seed bribery required

Here is my good friend Misha in many more pix­els than I’ve pre­vi­ously been able to show him. Pho­to­graphic ham­sters is prob­lem­atic because they’re only up and night and they move very, very fast. But some­times they stand still for a sec­ond or two if you give them food.
Why, yes, he is a rag­ing cutie. Thank