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I’m looking at an oober cute hamster cage on ebay for Catnip.

Her cage is old and starting to slowly fall apart, it’s been a good cage and lasted me nine years through a total of one deer mouse and two dwarf hamsters but it’s time for a replacement.

The problem is the new cage I’m looking at has bars. Catnip is only two inches long and can squiggle through a tightly closed fist. She’s a robo hamster which in lamens terms = the smallest hamster you can get. She’s beyond tiny.

So I had to email the seller of said cage to request that they measure the spacing between the bars. The cage is nice, it’s tall with two stories a sleep house, water bottle, food dish, wheel and pull out cleaning tray but safety always comes first.

Now I’m just waiting on a response and I really hope they humor me in my request as I really want this cage, it’s a good size. More than enough room for catnip to romp around in and the price is phenomenal coming to a total of $22.15 including shipping. You can’t beat that, literally. If you go to a pet store you won’t find a cage lower than $35.00 and the size of those cages are nothing compared to this one unless you convert a fish tank.

*crosses her fingers* here’s hoping Catnip will get her present. Wish me luck!

Puffin died in her sleep a few weeks ago (she was 3+ years old) so I decided to use the gift card my mo’s got me for Christmas to get a new one.

Not a russian dwarf hamster like puffin, as my goal wasn’t to replace her but more to ease my mind from staring at her empty cage. So I chose a chinese dwarf hamster whom I named MingMei.

Sadly MingMei didn’t work out. No matter how long and how hard I tried I just couldn’t get her to warm up and be comfortable with me.

If you so much as glanced wrong in her direction she’d freak out and I felt that I was causing her more stress than she needed so I returned her to the store after interrogating the personnel about what would happen to her once I officially returned her.

After a long conversation of her well being I was finally comfortable enough to let her go. I just had to know for sure that she’d be okay.

She’s now with a group of her peers and seems much calmer and happier so I’m happy for her and hope she finds a master she’s more comfortable with, we just weren’t a match.

I used the money from her return to get a more suitable hamster, non-chinese this time. It’s quite apparent that them and I don’t mix very well. So I chose a roborovskii dwarf hamster to be my faithful pet.

Robos are the smallest in the dwarf family, only reaching 2 to 2 1/2 inches in length but their mannerisms and attitudes are most similar to that of the russian which is what puffin was.

So far she’s acting as expected, super curious, cautious but not skittish or scared.

Right now I’m at the stage where I place my hand in her cage and talk softly to her for 20 to 30 minutes a day to let her learn my voice and scent.

On the third day I’ll move to petting her gently on the head and offering her treats from my hand then on day 9 we’ll start picking her up and holding her for about 5 minutes at a time with the reward being time to play in her kritter crawler.

I’ll miss MingMei and I’m deeply saddened that I had to return her. If the situation wasn’t causing her stress i would have kept her but it was vastly apparent that my mere presence scared her to pieces. If she’s happy then I’m okay so I’ll just have to leave it at that for now. My returning her was the best thing I could do for her.

New Robo Hami Photograph