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i always have to restrain myself from visiting pet shops , because whenever i do , i'll end up walking out with a lighter wallet.

i just cannot resist buying more treats or random pet accessories ( i once bought a tacky "cooling" chair for them. it never worked. ). yes , my hammies are spoilt brats.

it was the same just now , initially i had only bought a box of japanese hamster "dried fruits and mixed nuts" treats and squatted in front of the stacked cages where rodents galore ran relentlessly on their running wheels.

i fell hopelessly in love with this peewee critter who was the most hyperactive of the lot , curling its tail around every thing and hopping about from one surface to another.

Meet my new pet , Nano the Mouse . ( stupid name i know because it won't stay nano-sized forever)




Nano the Mouse is so tiny that its body is slightly shorter than the length of my pinky , which is about this long ------------- .

Because of its size , i am so terribly afraid of carrying it because there's a high possibility that Nano would wriggle or slip out of my hands and scurry off into some dark corner in a flash.



So hard to take a nice photo because it just CANNOT keep still , unlike my two fat-ass obese hammies below who are sedentary creatures. lol.



meet my two roly-poly hammies ! its a tradition to name all of my hamsters Hammie. and yes , they adopt my surname.



Nano it its make-shift goldfish bowl home , because i had initially wanted to house it together with my two hammies. big mistake , because the two fat idiots kept picking on poor Nano. i'm kinda miffed because the mice and the syrian hamsters were actually housed together in perfect harmony at the pet shop. looks like my hammies ain't really friendly critters. gahh. because of their aloofness i've gotta get another cage and a companion for Nano tomorrow.

btw Nano has amazing dextrity. i caught it performing some sorta awesome acrobatic stunt just now , its two hind paws curled tightly around the bent ladder and the rest of its body and front paws ramrod-straight in mid-air. how fucking incredible !!!!

and oh you should hear her ( him ? haven't got the chance to inspect its privates yet ) squeak. its so soft that its barely audible.

now life isn't always a bed of roses

i saw this languished campbell dwarf hamster lying in an awkward position in the middle of the cage , barely breathing and getting trodden upon by the rest of the i-don't-give-a-fuck comrades.

i notified the pet shop owner about it where he shrugged nonchalently , scooped it up and muttered that he would bury it before walking away.

i was fucking appalled. what , bury it when its still struggling for its life ?? the audacity !

i stopped him and asked him if he would allow me to bring it home and try to nurse it back to health and i promised to return it to him if i did. of course he was more than happy to do so.

it is so emaciated that i saw no reason to cover up the little tupperware box because it didn't even have the strength to move. i named it Sunshine , (sunshine after the rain , geddit ?? ) corny hor ??



back home , i nudged Sunshine's mouth that were clammy around the edges with the metal tip of a water bottle. at first it didn't even bothered to acknowledge the intrusion but the moment it sensed water , Sunshine seemed to muster up all of its strength to hold onto the tip where he lapped up the water earnestly and this scene made my heart ache. just how long did it go without water ?

apparently the skyjuice was a godsend to it because i see a slight improvement now , at least its resting in a more natural position and moving alot more though i'm disappointed its still not touching its food. i hope it will soon.

so guys , please be on the alert for errant pet shops and NEVER hesitate to report such cases to the SPCA. i didn't report this one because the living conditions were excellent , just that the owner probably didn't notice his sick patient. there was once i got so revolted by how a pet shop treated its occupants that i called SPCA on the spot .

imagine , cages with sawdust so caked with faeces that there was no semblance of the familiar pale yellow of cedar wood . the water bottle was caked with algae and there was no running wheel for the hamsters to exercise and extremely poor ventilation because it was house in a glass tank and COVERED with a plastic top. STUPID PEOPLE ! the poor hamsters were just lying around in piles with matted fur and some with festering sores , just waiting to die or the unlikely outcome of being taken home because they just looked so.. unappealing.

you wouldn't want to wallow in your own shit and condensed urine , would you.