http://www.mcgees.org/2000/12/17/multiple-hamsters-bad-idea/ Website of Joshua McGee Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:20:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.mcgees.org/2000/12/17/multiple-hamsters-bad-idea/#comment-56 mcgees.org » Blog Archive » Anyone read Dutch? Fri, 28 Apr 2006 01:06:41 +0000 http://www.mcgees.org/wordpress/?p=5#comment-56 [...] Note added 18 Jun 2003: OK, I heard back from the author of the hamster post.  Apparently she was saying the hamsters are ‘zielig’ — ‘miserable’ or ‘pitiful’.  I think it is because there are several in the same cage.  And she is right!  But in my defense, shortly after the picture was taken I moved the hamsters to individual, much larger habitats.  Chronologically, here are the posts about hamsters: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], and [7].  The last link is about the hamsters’ deaths.  Note also that “eulogies for hamsters” was one of the searches in my Two Years of Google Searches. [...] [...] Note added 18 Jun 2003: OK, I heard back from the author of the hamster post.  Apparently she was saying the hamsters are ‘zielig’ — ‘miserable’ or ‘pitiful’.  I think it is because there are several in the same cage.  And she is right!  But in my defense, shortly after the picture was taken I moved the hamsters to individual, much larger habitats.  Chronologically, here are the posts about hamsters: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], and [7].  The last link is about the hamsters’ deaths.  Note also that “eulogies for hamsters” was one of the searches in my Two Years of Google Searches. [...]

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