My Ham-Ham

HamTaro. Little Hamsters. Big Adventures.

Me and mom were at PetCo to buy goldfishes on June 1st. After mom got the goldfishes she wanted to put in the fish tank that we have in the bathroom. Me and mom went on over to see the hamsters. I love hamsters!!
My last hamster was Lita in 2000. I named her Lita after one of my fav Sailor Moon characters Sailor Jupiter. Lita was a cute tan w/white,loved her exercise wheel. Lita would stay on it til the wee hours of the morning (like almost 5 or 6 AM) you could hear the wheel going round & round & round. I think her wheel needed a little bit WD-40 sprayed on it. lol When I got to the hamsters I saw this one little hamster guy that stood out from the rest. The sudden urge to have a ham-ham played a beautiful melody on my heart strings. I kept standing in front of his display cage debating on if I should or shouldn't take on a hamster again. I took so long the little ham-ham decided to crawl into this plastic clearish yellow log and take him self a nap.
It was as if he was saying "If ya want me girl I'll be here in my log ok? GoodNight." I've had hamsters before, but never had I ever seen a dwarf hamster!! I named him HamTaro. Just like the hamster HamTaro from the anime HamTaro.

I stumbled into this website http://russiandwarfhamsters.tripod.com while I was looking for dwarf hamster pictures. I wanted to try to find a picture that looked similar to my HamTaro to show everybody. I plan on putting a link up for this site. It has useful information for anybody that is planning on choosing a dwarf hamster for a pet. There is a digital camera I saw at this pawn shop and it is only $49.99. Mom said that she would buy it for me the first of July. I'm so happy about it! I'll be able to take all the pictures I'll ever want and be able to share them here for all to see! :)

My HamTaro so far has been very sweet and gentle. I have only been nipped (meaning bit) by HamTaro twice that was when I was cleaning out his cage. Getting the soiled wood shavings, replacing it with fresh wood shavings. HamTaro is mottled with different colors of lite brown,gray and white. I haven't found a picture that resembles HamTaro yet. When I find a picture of HamTaro I'll post it on my blog. HamTaro loves to make tunnels in the soft wood shavings I've put in his cage. So far HamTaro's fav food of all is of course sunflower seeds(every hamster I've owned goes crazy for them lol), whole corn pieces. And you probably won't believe this, but HamTaro loves to eat cat food!! I learn that from that dwarf hamster site and thought I'd give it a go with HamTaro today. HamTaro went nuts for the pieces of Cat Cafe. He started stuffing his cheeks full with as many pieces of Cat Cafe as he could then ran into his plastic little tent. lol I'm going to give him the cat food pieces as a special treat. My cat Gabby loves Cat Cafe it is her fav dry cat food. Gabby gave me a funny look as I was putting her cat food into that funky looking mouse thingy's food bowl. The Cat Cafe it has 4 flavors Chicken,Turkey,Salmon and Ocean Fish.

My dad went back to PetCo to get a water bottle to put in HamTaro's cage. My dad got the smallest water bottle they had. I couldn't get the water bottle to stay hooked to the cage. Dad figured out a way to fix it so that the water bottle will stay on the cage, even if it is tilted to the side. lol


I'm gonna find every single bit of information on Dwarf Hamsters there is so that I can give my little HamTaro the best Ham-Hammy life he could ever imagine!!