Dear all,
I'm posting because I desperately need to rehome my elderly
hamsters. They are already 2 years old, and so are unlikely
to live more than another 6 months - 1 year.
I am forced to move to Australia in December, so I need to find
charitable people willing to take in an elderly hamster and give it
a safe place to live out its golden years.
If I cannot find kind people in time, I must give to the SPCA
who will likely kill them because of their age.
They come in their box, with all toys etc.
I list them below:
Please meet Miss Xiaohuang.
Type: Winter White
Gender: Female
Character: Elderly, but still active. Does not like to be
held.
Age: 2 years exactly.
Housing: Oversized plastic tub (the huge kind, bigger than most
commercial cages), wheel, hidey house, toys.
Reason of giving up the hamster: I must move to Australia by
January and Australia does not allow the import of rodents - so I
cannot bring her with me.
Meet Miss Pisola.
Her name means sleepy-head in Italian. We called her that because
ever since she was little she sometimes looks like she is slow to
wake up...a kind of blur blur expression. Very cute!
She is 2 years old, a lovely elderly lady. She's been a mummy Miss
Xiaopang, Miss Ah Lian and Miss Xiaohuang, who are also on this
list, when she was much younger. She enjoys mealworms, veggie cakes
from the petshop and sometimes a tiny bit of parmesan
cheese.
She is very active for her age and loves to run on the wheel in the
evenings. She's quite friendly also :-)
Meet Miss Lucrezia,
She has been named after Lucrezia Borgia, who is a bit of a villain
in Italian history (my hubby is Italian), because she's a real
trouble maker with other hamsters. She's a bit of a bully, and
she's the first hamster I had to separate out when they were all
together. She's not so aggressive with people, but she doesn't
really like to be handled all that much so I give her toys (she
loves cardboard toilet roll tubes) but leave her alone.
She takes food from her food-bowl and hides it in a pile in her
house. She also likes to run a lot, eat mealworms and is very
active for her age (2 years).
This is Miss Xiaopang, who is the largest of three sisters. She
likes very much to be left alone - as do her two sisters, to be
honest. None of them (Ah Lian, Xiaohuang, or this one Xiaopang) are
particularly fond of being handled. They are the daughters of
Pisola and Bianco, and so are also themselves about 2 years old
now.
She is less of a runner and more of a burrower. We give her litter
made from recycled newspaper and she's always tunneling in it. She
also loves to play in tissue paper.
This is Miss Ah Lian, the third sister. Like her other siblings,
she doesn't like being taken out of her cage and isn't very social.
She just likes to be left alone to dig, run on the wheel and look
cute.
She is very cute. Especially when she curls herself up in a little
tissue nest like in the picture.
Meet Mr Bischero.
His name means 'stupid' in Italian, something that he earned in his
interactions with the other hamsters (they were originally all
housed together in a giant cage until they started fighting). He
used to be a bit hysterical and throw himself on his back and
squeak even when another hamster just passed him by - very
paranoid!
He's quite curious and loves to be given new things to explore or
chew on - wooden toy, cardboard, odd objects (that are
safe!).
He loves to make a bed out of his sandbath - which is a bit
bizarre, but I guess it makes him unique!
This is the imaginatively named Mr Bianco (means 'white'). In life,
he loves eating and sleeping most of all. He is profoundly lazy but
also profoundly lovely. He lays on his wheel dreaming sometimes,
twitching his little feet and whiskers.
He's very friendly and doesn't mind being held - but he's fast so
you have to be extra careful not to let him drop.
Despite being elderly, he still loves to groom himself and his coat
is always clean and white - which is something amazing for a 2 year
old white dwarf hamster. When he was younger he was a hit with the
ladies (he is the father of the three sisters) and I suppose he
likes to maintain himself in good shape :-))
