Hamster update

Our pet hamster, named "Hammy" appears to have mended his ways. No incidents of biting, no more escapes. Lori and the girls have been working on taming Hammy, waiting until he's awake before picking him up, adding fresh food to his diet. He gets out and about in his exercise ball, too.

Actually, I think Hammy is doing pretty well, given how many times he's moved thus far.

What?

Yep. He's moved 3 times. Not location-wise, but cage-wise. He went from a starter cage to a larger cage, and to his now 3 level cage.

Pretty sweet for a hamster. Check out the image. Same cage style.

One thing that's got us a little concerned is that Hammy doesn't always use the climbing tubes between the upper levels. He just jumps from the middle and sometimes top levels inside the cage to the floor.

Lori thinks "he's going to hurt himself". He may.

The exercise wheel isn't as quiet as I thought it was going to be. We can put a man on the moon but the wheel still makes noise.

Birthday list

OK, it's getting to be that time of year again - my birthday is coming up and I need to get some ideas out there.

In the past I've done it on my web site but for different reasons I'll post it here on the blog. Thanks in advance!

No particular order...

Guitar picks - get the 1.0 mm (black) ones. A dozen should do it.
Strings - I've used Ernie Ball regular slinkies for years.
Just for fun - I like the yellow one
Maintenance kit
Boonie hat

Good on-line Bible study

Over the past year or so, I've been looking for some sort of on-line Bible study and think I have found a good one and wanted to share it.

It's called "Christian Courses" and it's sponsored by Radio Bible Class. We've been receiving the RBC devotional booklets at home for the past few years and kind of stumbled onto the site.

Currently I'm taking the course titled "10 Reasons To Believe In Christ Instead Of Religion" and it's thought provoking and Scripture based. Some of the classes include multimedia (videos) and an interactive portion via message boards.

It's self paced, web based. Good stuff.

Patter of little feet

This past Friday I received a plaintive call from my 5yo daughter, breathlessly asking if we could go to the pet store and look at hamsters.

So we did, and $60 later we brought home a male hamster.

The first cage we purchased ended up being mis-used by the hamster. The exercise wheel is up on a rotating 2nd level and he ended up using it as a sleeping nest, spraying seeds and hamster urine over the area.

Second cage is working out better.

First day in the house, the girls were loving the hamster a bit too much and he sunk his teeth into our oldest daughter's index finger. Drew blood and everything. She hates seeing her own blood so it was bedlam for a few minutes.

Second night in the house the 5yo (instigator of the hamster) didn't close the cage door well enough and we had a situation that my wife feared most: a hamster jailbreak.

We started around the cage and eventually found him in the kid's playroom - 15 fear-filled (for my wife) minutes all told.

And today, Sunday, the hamster took a nip at the 5yo.

So far:

Hamster: 2 nips, 1 escape
Humans: 0