Multiple hamsters: bad idea
Multiple hamsters in one cage is turning out to be a bad idea. Our gamble of sociability based on their blood relationship seems to be a losing bet.
Unfortunately the store has a policy of only accepting returns of sick animals. Our plan is this: we want to keep two of them, which will entail purchasing a second habitat. We are going to try to return two, in the hopes that they can find good, solitary homes elsewhere. If the store won’t give us money back, we’ll try to get merchandise credit. And if that doesn’t work, we’ll offer to just give them back if they will sell them as pets (rather than, say, use them as feeders.) This is my sentimentalism getting the best of me here.
I hope this all works out.
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June 18th, 2003 at 6:06 pm
[...] 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. [...]