My husband is a father!
No, I'm not pregnant--I'm not a mother. And no, he didn't cheat on me and knock up someone else (man, I would have been sooo mad!).
But we went to Petco this weekend to get some rabbit litter. And they had this huge tank of hamsters like they always do. And he was looking at them and told me how he wished he had a hamster, he always wanted a hamster but when he was a little kid his parents would never let him get one. I had loads of hamsters growing up, because those of you who know my mom know my family homestead is like a show on Animal Planet. So I was like "Well, if you would like to get one, I don't mind."
He was all excited and was like "Really?? You would let me get one??"
Awww. How cute! My cute husband. We saw that they had a sign were you could adopt hamsters and mice and gerbils that people had dropped off because they didn't want them anymore. So we inquired. All of them had been checked by a vet and said to be healthy, but there were things wrong with them:
1. A feeder mouse that was healthy but seemed to be in shock and wouldn't move.
2. 2 golden hamsters that someone had put together even though they didn't get along--they had fought and hurt each other so much that the vet had to remove the eyeball on one and part of the face of another--they looked very weird.
3. A teddy bear hamster missing a couple toes/part of her foot.
So Kevin adopted a cute little teddy bear hamster with a couple scabs on her ears and some missing toes. She's not perfect, but she's beautiful.
Her daddy named her Hazel, and while we got the hamster for free, we dropped like $100 on a cage and pine shavings and food and chew toys and a hamster ball. Free my butt.
She's doing great--she loves her wheel and her ball, and we got her a cage with all these tubes she can crawl in--and she does. Kevin told me that her full name is Hazel *my first name for her middle name* *our last name for her last name*. Haha. Isn't that funny?
Sareet--I know you're not crazy about rodents (and I know that's the understatement of the century) so I hope this didn't scare you too much.
Just wanted to share:) . We've been calling her Hazelnut.
posted by ElliottPreciousPants @ 9:07 AM
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I'm not fond of the long skinny rodents either. It's interesting that all the things at the bottom of your list have long tails:).
I was bitten by a crazy squirrel once in Ann Arbor. Not actually me, but it took a chunk out of my shoe. I was walking home from a night class (this was my last year there) and this squirrel came running up to me and started biting my shoe. I got freaked out, and I kicked it off. I didn't mean to kick it hard, and I think it was all right because it just ran up a tree. I felt really gui;ty at kicking a squirrel, but, I didn't really think much about it--I was freaked out, and my instinct was to GET IT OFF!! I was afraid I would get rabies or something.
Thank GOD I wasn't wearing sandals.
if a wild animal comes up to you like that, something (like rabies) is wrong with it. Don't worry about hurting it, that's just darwin at work.
Sareet- where do otters fit in? I find them really cute and playful, but i like them far away from me. Rodents don't bother me as much as the thought of wet rodents... yuck!
Are otters rodents??? I've never really thought of them as such. They seem more like seals and sea lions to me.
Now beavers...not so much about the beavers either. I'll never forget the time I took a wrong turn in the museum in Ann Arbor - was it a natural history one - must have been. Anyway, found myself looking all these stuffed long skinny things with tails and just about gave myself a panic attack.
I thought bunnies are in the rodent family? No?
And Elliot - that story about the squirrel biting you - see I always tell people that can happen and they just don't believe me. They say, no squirrel is going to come up and bite your face, but my point is, the one who does is the one who's gonna give you rabies...
Actually, I thought of you Sareet when that happened with the squirrel. I thought "My God, she was right.....I can't believe she was right..."
No, rabbits are actually not rodents.
But I don't remember what family they are in....hmmm time for a google search I think.
LOL!!!
Rabbits are lagomorphs... family (i think) lagomorpha. Family rodentia is different- i think mostly the teeth are organized differently. Enough dorky biology, when i worked at BI in the er, this guy came in cuz he got bit by a squirrel. Cover your eyes now sareet. i saw him, a student saw him, the resident and the attending saw him- same story to everyone- "i was sitting in the park feeding the squirrels, and one of them bit me." Yuck. Well, resident thinks, maybe we should have infectious disease consult. So the guy comes down, same story- "i was sitting in the park feeding the squirrels and one of them bit me." ID guy goes, "no it didn't." Arguement ensues... yes, of course that's what happened, I was there, etc, etc. ID guy says, "dude, sorry, that's a rat bite...." ARGH!!!!
OH MY GOD!! OH MY GOD!! OH MY GOD!!
That, Meliss, is like the WORST fucking story I've read on the internet...IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!!!
And thereby confirms all my fears of rodents jumping and biting people. Dude, these sickos are not afraid of people. I don't understand why everyone is so naive about them. FEAR THEM. FEEEEAAAAARRRRR THEM.
Hmm. I wonder how he mistook a rat for a squirrel.
well, in boston, the squirrels are grey and a little mangy. Rats live in the subways and are pretty well fed. There are also skunks and possums in the city. One time, a guy tried to spend the night with me by dropping me at my house, and on not being invited in, told me that he had to come in because there was a skunk next to his car. I insisted on seeing said skunk. He went home.
I'll have to keep that in mind gym boy
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