Yes. I know that the title says "Squirrel" and the pictures say "Hamster"
I quit posting because we're back in our apartment and the only wildlife we have is our hamster (which I'm really quite happy about) and the wild cats that live in the vacant lot next door. We got Ted (aka Ted the Squirrel) for Valentines day last year from my mom-in-law. The guy at Petco was really cool and let us each hold one while we figured out which kind to get. He was even nice enough to flick the different kinds to see if they would bite. From this we learned that Dwarf Hamsters are the best.
However, this was not a good time to learn that Ted apparently is a kamikaze. He waited for me to quit looking for half a second and dove out of my hands and landed on the floor a good 4+ feet below. I felt so bad that we decided to make it up to him by giving him his own little house.
He sleeps all day... Likes to kick the bedding out of the cage... He runs on his squeaky wheel once all the lights have been turned out and he's convinced we won't be turning them on soon... And he occasionally smells funny... But he's cute and soft, so we clean his cage and give him food and water. And when we're gone for a few days - we make sure we put the thermostat on so he doesn't freeze. (This is a big deal because I'm pretty much anti-heater which lets our apartment get pretty chilly some days.)
I forget how the squirrel got in his name. I'm guessing because I kept randomly calling him a squirrel or chipmunk more than a hamster.
I had to take a ton of pictures to get this many that were not blurry and actually had his face in it. Those were the pre-Canon Rebel Awesomeness days.
I need a new title for this blog. We don't have naturally occurring animals and it's too cold to do extensive adventuring outside so the whole NatGeo thing is gonna have to go :( But that's fine. I'll get rid of a blog title if it means that snakes and tarantulas aren't a regular part of my life.
