My babysitter's son stayed with us this weekend, and he brought his hamster (which used to be my hamster, but I gave it to him, reducing my hamster count to 2). In the spirit of the olympics, they decided to hold Hamster Olympics. First event: Hamster Ball race. They put their hamsters in their little balls and let them roll around the basement. Second event: Obstacle course: They set up pillows and books in the living room and made their hamsters climb over it all. So this went on all morning.
I went in to my room to get ready to go away this afternoon. When I came out into the living room, I looked out onto the deck only to see the kids with their hamsters on makeshift boats floating in a bucket of water, only the hamsters didn't balance on the boats. They didn't swim either. I rescued them and declared the kids inadequate hamster owners, dried the nearly-drowned little rats and tucked them snug into their safe cages again.
I have to admit... I'm glad my kids found something inventive to do besides stay inside and play Barbies or video games all day.
1 comments:
Im so glad you rescued them. SOOOO many hamsters die from that, please make sure that no one ever lets them even enter water again, hamsters can clean themselves, and if for some certain occasion they absoulutely NEED a bath, use Chinchilla dust. You should do a research on the internet about that ^^ It can kill a hamster because
1. They can drown
2. It can remove their scent glands and make them sick.
3. It always makes them SOOO cold, they can die of that.
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