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 …
“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.
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 …
Happy birthday to my best friend and furry little sister Maggie! She turned 9 on Saturday. My parents made her a cake. Since the cake contains chocolate and flour, she couldn’t eat a crumb of it, but they told her how delicious it was.
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 …
October 17, 2009 – 5:47 pm
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By Laura Bird
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Posted in albany, doggies, hamsters, misc life, new york city, pets
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Tagged bandit, dog-sitting, friends, megabus, nyc, penn station, photos, visual week in review, wedding
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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.
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 …
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 …
What is my hamster up to?
Can a joke image make me feel bad? Of course.