Tuesday, February 05, 2008

# WHATS THAT COMIN' OVER THE HILL, IS IT A HAMSTER..? #

Meet our house hamster, Mojito.
NAME: MOJITO
NICKNAME: MOJO, HAMSTER
COLOUR: GINGER BROWN WITH DARK BROWN PATCH ON HEAD AND SHOULDERS AND WHITE FUR UNDERNEATH
AGE: 3.1 MONTHS
LIKES: FOOD, SLEEP, A CHALLENGE
DISLIKES: SUDDEN MOVEMENTS, BUMPY BUS RIDES

PRISON BREAK 2: WHISKERS OF DEATH

Yes, we like Mojito.We think Mojito is cute and utterly adorable. She's about 13(?) weeks old now, so really still a baby in hamster world. As to her personality, she enjoys running around in her wheel at
unsociable hours (she's a 'party animal' - heh.), eating everything i give her, (tried and tested: beansprouts, dumplings, scotch egg, tomatoes, cookies, blueberries..) climbing up vertical heights and dropping from dangerous heights, and stretching. Biiiiig loooong stretches in the morning, coupled with a surprisingly fearsome looking yawn.

One word of warning though - be careful not to look too deep into her innocent lil eyes - they hide a world of mischief that is just starting to reveal itself.


PLEASE SIR, I'D JUST TO GET A LIL FRESH AIR IS ALL...


What may seem like the sweetest hamster in the world is merely an illusion, a facade to cover up the
world's most industrious and tiniest escape artist. She'll climb, she'll hang, she'll swing, she'll dangle - and she'll inevitably fall. But with a quick sweep around her ears with her tiny little paws, she's back up again looking for the next escape route.


DAMMIT, I SWEAR THERE IS AN OPENING HERE A MINUTE AGO...


And yes that is a picture of her upside down on the roof of her cage. She had obviously noticed the hatch open a while ago and a hand miraculously descending down unto her lair that she decided if that thing can get down here, then hell i can get up there! And yet, poor fur-ball, she couldn't.

She has actually mastered the skill of, when the hatch is open, reaching up, anchoring onto the edge with her two front paws, and swinging her butt forwards and backwards until she hoists her teeny tushie up, though. Sometimes takes 2 seconds, sometimes takes 10, but always evokes a sense of aaaaw-ness.