The Smelker Seven

New Addition to the house

We have a new addition to the family – Teagan has wanted to get a hamster for a while now. We had one a few years back, Elephant was its name. It died in 2001 and since then she has asked every few months for one. Well, a girl friend of mine had a garage sale a couple of weeks ago and wanted to sell her hamster stuff. It didn’t sell, so she offered it to me – she thought we would keep Monty’s mouse in it until I explained we don’t keep the mouse, the mouse comes into the house specifically to be consumed. We thought about it for a day or so, and contacted her saying we would get the stuff from her and surprise the kids with a hamster. We got the hamster this afternoon – the kids are so excited. We will keep it in the game room, so it won’t keep anyone awake with the wheel! We had to name the darn thing, so we put names in a hat and I chose. Here are the nominations:

Fluffy (Terry)
Chewbacca (me – I think it is the BEST name!)
Cindy (Teagan)
Clever (Hayley)
Hamster Boy (Garrick – superheroes on the brain!)
Junior (Carson – not sure where he got the idea from)

The name selected was Junior, so Junior, reluctantly, it is. It is a little golden hamster, with white underbelly, and a dark sport on the head. The pet store said for us not to handle it for 2 or 3 days until it gets settled into its cage. I hope it lives a good long while – actually Elephant lived about 3 years, so about average for a hamster I think.

Although this is not a photo of our hamster, this is a pretty good likeness (although really, one hamster looks like another in my opinion!)

Labels: hamster, Teagan

posted by The Smelker Seven @ 9:07 PM