Just A Bloggers Birthday

Its my biiiiirthday! Yay! Let me celebrate getting a whole year older!

I love birthdays.

Not so much the present part. I love the ‘its my special day’ part which generally boils down to ‘I-can-do-what-I-want-and-get-away-with-it’ part.

The hamsters will soon experience this joy (well next year at some point). Dexter is about 8 months old now! Isn’t he a BIG boy! And so very handsome too Bare in mind this is about 4 weeks out due to the fact they’d be about 4-6 weeks old at date of purchase!

(NOTE: these trackers are from date of ownership not technical age)

Eve is right behind him at about 7 months.

And bubba Cas bringing up the rear at about 5 months old. Doesn’t it seem longer! Feels like Ive had all three of them forever! Its so weird to think they are still so young in their lives

Of course these are educated guesses as they don’t track the ages of their hamsters at the pet store. But at a rough 5-6 week old hamster for sale until today’s date, I have that pretty sussed out.

All of them are just adorable still! They wont quite shake that oober cute baby face just yet. Infact, Im sure they will always look adorable as they do now! And of course they will always be my little bubbahs!

These age trackers are available for whatever event or occasion. They count donations for charity event and ages of children too. Perfect for any blog! I have just used them to track the age of my hammys!
You can design them to kiddies crawling, plants growing or just plain lines. Click on any  tracker to find out more!
Wonderful stuff!!!

Who Knows Who’s Nose Is Who’s: The Results!

If you haven’t already taken part in this little game then look no further and click HERE so you can see the original post. These are the answers to that post so you don’t want to look at this until you’ve had a go right?!

NO PEEKING!! :p

The Sunday Riddle #27

Well I was utterly flabbagasted when I had a look at todays stats. Some how without my daily post today I have hit my highest views of the daily – nearly 200 hits today! I am chuffed to pieces! I was starting to lose faith in my blogging abilities with the whole lack of time thing but this really has pepped my confidence right back up there!

So I am delivering todays post with a BIGGGGGG smile on my face!

Last weeks riddle was clearly a tricky one! It stumped you all!
But even that can’t ruin this good mood!!!

The riddle was this:
When I go forward I am really rather heavy. But when I go backwards I am not. What am I?

The ANSWER:

A TON.
Now think about it, process it a little. Ton is heavy and ‘ton’ written backwards is ‘not’ so there we have it! A riddle to baffle your friends with over the Christmas hols!!

And for this weeks riddle I have tried to be a little festive! But there was always the risk of it sounding like a cheesey Christmas cracker joke. So here we go folks!

Who beats his chest and swings from Christmas cake to Christmas cake??

xxx

Who Knows Who’s Nose Is Who’s?

Phew that is a mouthful!
Who can say that quickly after a drink or two??

I have a little party game for you all here.

You may remember something like this when I was away on my holiday in September. The post was Which Hamster Do You Belong To?

Here is the nose version of the game because I couldn’t resist the title pun. I am so easily pleased I tell yah.
Comment all your answers below!

Good luck folks! Answers will be published on Monday so follow to make sure you dont miss out on the results!! ~
Have any ideas??

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TGIF

Oh Friday, I have missed you.. Come visit me sooner next week??

Sorry for the short post, I am one BUSY bumble bee!
Thought this would get you all smiling nonetheless!

ENJOYYYY!
XxxxX

Handmade Hammy Gift #2 – A Simple Hamster Treat Recipe

So I may be a bit slow on the whole home made hammy treats feature before this Christmas but I am only just finding time to wrap the presents let alone research and try out things for the blog.
I am sure once the hustle and bustle of Xmas (and my birthday next Friday) is over I can settle back down into a routine

Any ways a neat little idea for your beloved furries can be to make your own little treats for them! They say a way to man’s heart is through his belly – well Im pretty sure the same thing goes for pets.
(Not saying that men are animals… Im not honest! Just that some characteristics may be shared. That’s all!)

So here is a SUPER simple recipe for little pet treats (suitable for small furries – not so much big furries as small bits and pieces can be choked on by big furries!)

What you need?

• Honey
• Assorted nuts (or your furries favourite – so sunflower seeds in Dexters case. Make sure theyre not salted varieties)
• A mold tray (funky shaped ice cube trays are ideal!) You can make all kinds of shapes depending on the tray
• Any oats or even original cheerios are good for this recipe

How long will it take?

About 5 minutes to actually make and then another hour or so to set.

How do you make them?

1. Take a mixing bowl and pour in a hammy portion of the assorted nuts and a sprinkling of oats or cheerios
2. Take a spoonful of honey and dollop it into the bowl.
3. Mix it all together, coating as much of the nut/oat mix as possible.
4. Add a spoonful at a time. Once everything is coated -STOP! You want the mixture to be tacky all over not pourable!
5. Take a spoonful of your honey coated mixture and fill it into the ice cube tray.
6. Once all the ice-cube spaces are filled, pop the tray into the fridge for the treats to harden up.
7. After about 1 hour, have a look at your treats. If they are solid-er, take the tray out and pop out the finished article!
8. If they are still squidgy, put them back in and check again later!
9. Give them to your furry – watch them enjoy the sweet delight!

With this recipe you can swap in your favourite pet nibbles! Like for example, Dexter LOVES his sunflower seeds and peanuts. So I could mix together sunflower seeds, some chopped peanuts and some oats to bulk it out. Chuck in the honey and ta-dah! Dex could have a treaty-delight!!!

How awesome would that be!!

 

 

The Lick Of Love

One of the plentiful problems with multiple hamsters of both genders is that the smells confuse them all.
Let me try to explain this better.
When I hold Eve for a bit, she snuggles on my hand and has a wonder around for a bit before I plop her back into her bed. Ahhh isn’t that lovely. Well yes, that is all very lovely until I then hold one of the boys.

This is the ‘Im gunna lick you’ face.. The eyes all squint up and the nose burrows down.

Now after holding a girl, unbeknownst to me, she leaves her scent on everything she touches (this isnt the smelly-smelly female hamster stink, this is the general female hamster stink that is invisible to humans).
This not only sends both of the boys into a frenzy, but they have a terrible habit of ‘licking’ my hand clean! All that female hamster stink is literally licked clean! And I didnt even have to get up!

I can only describe having your palm licked by a hamster as nerve-wrecking!
Dexter isn’t such a bad licky-ham. He is a bit slobbery but he doesnt bother me too much and the fact he sits still for longer than 10 minutes is a godsend!

Casper on the other hand **bad dum tss** hasn’t quite got the etiquette of licking mastered yet. He uses his teeth to lick so its actually more of a biting, nibbling motion. It kind of tickles for a bit.. until he gets inbetween your fingers – right on that fleshy web bit inbetween your fingers and he ‘nibbles’ that. Now that, ladies and gentlemen, is not a pleasant experience!

A quick squeal and a flick of the wrist and he’s off licking the next surface that Eve happened to traipse by.

Oh to be a hamster, Such simple beings!

xxxx

The Sunday Riddle #26

Yet another busy week and weekend and yet another week of Hamster Diary posts I am yet to write for the next week.
I need more hours!

I have been trying so very hard to organise myself with Christmas around the corner. I do myself no favours by deciding to hand make a load of my presents. It may be a very nice and very thoughtful gesture but boy, it takes up all my spare time!
I am hoping it will all be worth it on Christmas but until then I will have to remain all rushed and busy.

Anyway, to the point of your Sundays

I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest man can’t hold me for much more than a minute. What am I?

This was last weeks riddle. And it didnt take long at all for some of you to work this one out! It was impressive to say the least…
Hannah from Animal Tails, Scienerf and new commenter Lori all got this one spot on! Well done guys!

The ANSWER:
Breath!

Now for this weeks riddle. I wonder if anyone will be quite as fast to fathom out this one.

When I go forward I am really rather heavy. But when I go backwards I am not. What am I?

Good luck ladies and gentlemen (and furries of course)
xoxoxoxox

Greedy Chops And The Banana

Casper is a quite fussy hamster. He will pick through his food bowl nowadays and leave the bits he doesnt like. Dexter does this too so I think the boys have been sharing tips on how to annoy the human. Half of all the muesli they are given ends up wasted. No wonder I am having to get creative with the treats!

Anyway, in a wild bid to start eating better, I have started eating lots of banana’s. Mmmm yummy!

I am no the only one who has decided to adopt this new habit however.
Never have I seen a hamster cling onto a fruit quite so passionately.

He really did just stuff his whole face – cheeks puffed to the brim! And in attempt to pull him off, he dug his claws in either side and just made a huge mess. So I left him to it.

So if you can picture the scene; Casper eating my banana in my hand and me sat there staring at him with a jealous glare. I only wanted it that much more because he was enjoying it so much. Isn’t that always the way with food though.

Happy Saturday everybody!

Handmade Hammy Gift #1 – Funky Tunnel-Tube

I promised you some handmade crafts to fill those hamster-stockings! And here I am with instalment number ONE!

Now before I begin I would like to point out that this can actually be done for ANY occasion, so that could be your hammys birthday / they just need cheering up/ or like I am demonstrating here, Christmas of course!

It is not expensive, it is some thrifty thinking and just perfect to make your hammy’s feel that festive spirit!

WHAT IS IT?!
It is a decorative tube for your furries!

HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO MAKE??
No more than 1 minute!

WHAT WILL YOU NEED??
Some wrapping paper, a used up toilet roll/kitchen roll or even pringle tube, some sellotape and some scissors!

WHAT TO DO:

Step 1

When wrapping up those Christmas presents – keep hold of the scraps that you cut off and would otherwise throw away. You wont need much! If there aren’t any scraps, just cut a small section off and place to one side.
This is the brilliance of this little gift is that it doesnt need to be Christmas wrapping paper. It could be birthday wrapping paper or even just a pretty designed wrapping paper. Whatever takes your fancy (I would still to paper though as the foil wrapping papers may not be so good for hamsters cages)

Step 2.

Take your tube/tunnel and place it in the centre of your wrapping paper scrap. Remember if you don’t have an actual tube bought from a shop a used up toilet roll inner-bit is just as good and practically free as you’d only throw it away anyway!!
If you have a bigger furry, a washed out pringles tube with the ends popped out is also perfectly good! Just make sure that you have enough wrapping paper for whatever sized tube you are using!

Step 3

Use small tabs of sellotape to stick down the wrapping paper as it covers the tube.  Trim the excess paper from the edges as you want it to look all neat and voila! You have yourself one funky tubey-tunnel for your hamster!!!

Quick, easy and doesnt need to cost you any extra pennies! It really can be whatever you make of it and it can brighten up your hamsters environment! Who said handmade had to be complicated!
Use that imagination of yours!

That’s one hamster stocking filler down, I wonder how many more to go?!
Lots of love!
xxxxx