HamsterDiaries On YouTube

Hands up who watches videos on YouTube! 
*slowly raises hand*
Hands up who loves cute little hamsters?!
*waves hand a little*
Hands up who has subscribed to the HamsterDiaries YouTube channel?!!
*waves hand a LOT*

Hahaha I sat down at the weekend tidying up some bloggy bits and pieces and I realised that all of you wonderful readers are missing a trick!
All of the videos that end up being posted on here are uploaded onto the YouTube channel a week or so in advance.
So if you wanted a sneak preview at what is to come on the blog and a sooner fix of all things cute and hamstery then you have just GOT to subscribe to the channel.

And to make things even easier for you folks, you can just click on the YouTube logo below and it will take you straight to the channel page. Then all you have to do is make sure you’re logged into your account and hit the subscribe button. Easy peasy lemon squeezy!!

And to sweeten this deal EVENNNNNN more, at some point in the coming couple of weeks I shall put on a special EXCLUSIVE BEHIND THE SCENES LOOK at HamsterDiaires for you wonderful YouTube subscribers!! Yes you heard that right – a never seen before view of my humble little blog and ONLY for those who have subscribed!
You know you’re curious.. Go onnnnn, don’t miss out!

Until tomorrow folks! Keep them eyes peeled 😉
xx

Casper Vs Eve – The Dance Off

Casper is recovering well and showing off.

I think what has happened here is that Casper has seen Eve’s talented monkey bar skills out of his cage window. He has recently started doing the monkey bars and quite honestly, putting Eve to shame!

Now the picture you see to your right is of Eve doing the monkey bars for one of the first times all them months back. You may notice she’s all slim and skinny, unlike the curvy podge-ball we now have 😉 Shes had 13 kids people, lighten up! She looks great now and looked great back then mmkays?!

Now Casper may not have quite the grace of Eve when it comes to doing the monkey bars, but he sure can get a groove on.

I videoed him doing this the other day and put it to some music and found myself giggling at how he looked like he was dancing away on the bars.

Then I looked up the old video I had of Eve doing the same.

Here are both videos for you to enjoy.

They will brighten up your day, promise!!
Who doesnt love seeing a hamster splat on the cage floor after getting too cocky on the ceiling?! ;D

Casper’s rave cannot be seen if you are viewing from Germany, I keep picking music that isnt allowed somewhere or rather, but it should work for the rest of you 😀

Enjoy!!

And if you needed some more furry dancing cuteness, here is Eve on her bars. This is from a while back, you may remember the hilarious splat to the floor right at the end of it 😀

The Hyperactive Hamster

Casper has got oodles of energy. And by ‘oodles‘ I mean serious amounts of energy! In the picture above he had been running about on my bed for ages and then proceeded to lay down with my iPad as a pillow. CUTIE!

(Ps. Did you notice the About Casper page? I finally got round to putting it up the other day 😛)

So Casper has some funny habits but the majority of his habits are improving.
He has settled down his nest building habits – before he would build a nest in each corner, but now he favours the bottom right corner now – the first sign of normality for this hamster. He has also starting hoarding his food, burying it in sawdust so it looks like he has no food and I feel like a big meanie for starving him. Its his sneaky way of me filling his bowl up again. He gets a second helping of muesli and I wonder why he’s getting a tad porky 😛

But there is one ‘behaviour’ that I still cant get my head around. When he was out running like a loony bin on the bed (from the same time as the photo above was taken) he starting scratching dancing freaking out acting oddly.
I have made a video of the ‘event’ but almost seem to have caught him doing it by accident. I wanted to take a video of him cleaning himself – if you have never seen a hamster grooming you are in for a treat – but seem to have caught his funny dancing. I want to call it dancing because he was soooo over-the-top 😀
Okay Im not really making sense… Just watch the video, here is Casper being a hyperactive hamster whilst out to play the other night. I start off by shaking his paw (like a Sir), he does his little dance, has a scratch and then has a big clean and continues running around like a mad-ham. Its cute, it made me laugh hard and its cute.

Got something AWESOME lined up for real soon too 😀 Keep your eyes peeled!
xxx

That-Heart-Warming-Effect

WORD: that-heart-warming-effect
PRONOUNCED: thaht-hahrt-wawr-ming-ih-fekt
MEANING:  the complete feeling of gladness and happiness a person experiences after a kind and loving action or event

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So yesterday I posted about the simple joys of watching my three beautiful Syrian hamsters running amok in their exercise balls.

And, correctly, my lovely followers pointed out I was missing a video! I couldnt possibly rant and rave about how cute and funny it was to watch three hamsters run into each other in their exercise balls without a video to show it!

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and if a video is basically made up of millions of pictures (urrmm I think?) then this video is worth like a gabillion words?! No-one wants to READ a gabillion words but I know I would sure like to watch the equivalent!

So I took lots of film of the hamsters in their balls. YAY for exercise [and free-time]!

You will notice in the video I have used ‘The Rubbish Indoor/Outdoor Playpen’ (yeah that’s its official name…maybe…….should be) to barricade off a section of the room. That useless playpen comes in handy here because they cant climb over its ridiculously low walls when they are in a sealed sphere… mwahaha!
But anyway, I am only using it to make a small ‘playpen’ for the sake of this video. I couldn’t crawl around chasing each individual hamster as they would undoubtedly go in different directions at 100 miles per hour and I wouldn’t have had a video to end up with. I would have had sore knees though. 

So here after popular demand is the eagerly anticipated video of the hamsters enjoying their teasing taste of freedom! Take notice of the camera-hog (Dexter) who cant get enough of running toward me and my camera as well as at 0:25 Casper looks as if he has waited to start his careful steps on cue! “Annnnnd ACTION!” hehehe so cute – if you missed that bit, watch it again!! 😀
NOTE: Canada & Germany wont be able to view this video. Youtube copyright something-or-rathers.

Yes, the music is once again cheesy (sorry for not using Benny Hill here GoodGirlGlasgow but it didnt quite fit this video) I know the lyrics here are a bit mixed but its all about love and whats better than a video of my pets to a song about love and who can resist humming along to this song?! 😀

Plus I cant help but watch this and feel extremely happy. I have happy pets – nothing makes a pet-lover happier than happy pets! (Woah lots of ‘happys’ in one sentence there). It has ‘that-heart-warming-effect’ – I LOVE IT!

Have a super great day where ever you are and whatever you are doing!
xxx