Hamsters.

so utterly not crap! my ex wanted to get a hamster to replace her dead fish. i thought it was kinda silly. she got this guy, this "little dude" as she often calls him... he was pretty cute and fluffy and whatnot. then one of his eyes got kinda weird looking, all glossy and kinda puffy. then it got *huge*, like freakishly bulging out of his head. then it lost the shine, and went kinda matte. then it got smaller, back to normalish size, breifly, before shriveling up and FALLING OFF. since then he's been right on. he's a one-eyed hamster. his name is Special Agent Dale Cooper, or just Cooper for short. also known as Hammie, and Little Dude. likes to eat vegetables right out of your hand. frequently runs in a wheel. hates baby corn. takes lotsa food and sticks it in his head, what she refers to as "football face" because it gets all oblong and kinda football-shaped, the giant cheek area. funny, fuzzy, friendly, a silly little guy that is easily condemned as stupid or frivolous or whatnot, but to meet him is to love him. as a representative for hamsters worldwide, Special Agent Dale Cooper, you have won a hearty NOT CRAP for your kind.

I had a couple hamsters when i was a kid...

And while they were cute and fluffy and all, they drove me fucking nuts at night running in that damn wheel. I remember that cleaning the cage was no treat either. Yuck.

One good thing was the plasict ball thingy that they could run around the house in...that was pretty cool, but still...

Crap.

If and only if I win this big jackpot lotto prize, then the bear vs. whatever will come true. I hate hamsters and most small creatures that fall into the rodent category. They're rodents!

My favourite childhood memory was when our pet dog ate my sister's hamster. I have never been so secretly pleased.

Hamsters are Crap.



But Hamster Man...



... is Not Crap.

All of you who dont like hamsters can eat shit, they are great pets. Ive had several over the past few years and they are a lot of fun. I have one now that is cute as hell, brown and white with an adorable face, it reminds me of a tiny silly bear.Strangely it has never bitten anyone ever, usually they might bite for a while and then stop as they get accostomed to you. I think ill go back to getting an austallian hamster after this one dies, they are gray and white underneath and really small. Although the one I have now is really great, I have to clean the cage every other day because it pees so much. I should take a picture of mine and post it on this topic

I should take a picture of mine and post it on this topic

I finally did. These are from yesterday




You can see the little bald spot on his nose and in-between the eyes. It is from doing this

This hamster so needs his own pet-powered vehicle:

toomanyhelicopters wrote:...he's a one-eyed hamster. his name is Special Agent Dale Cooper, or just Cooper for short. ... funny, fuzzy, friendly, a silly little guy that is easily condemned as stupid or frivolous or whatnot, but to meet him is to love him. as a representative for hamsters worldwide, Special Agent Dale Cooper, you have won a hearty NOT CRAP for your kind.

Special Agent Dale Cooper is dead. I always knew some day I'd get the phonecall from the crying ex. I hoped she would have a new bf, because the thought of her picking up her dead hamster to do what, throw him down the trash chute (she lives in DC, downtown) let's just say that's the kinda thing she'd need a bf to do for her...

Very shortly after I was out there last, she had him put down. He was really old, and was seriously losing his mobility as his lower belly area was getting *huge*. The vet said he had a big cyst in there, and it could maybe be surgically removed, and maybe Mr Cooper would live. so she had him put down.

Sad, sad times. That was one kickass hamster. RIP, Special Agent Dale Cooper. Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin, man.