this is why Tam shouldn't... oh never mind

[tamlin_kitsune]

It all started just before I was going to Texas.  I needed to buy a little bird feeder so I could be sure Booth could get water if she decided to ignore her water bottle.  As is my - stupid - wont I wandered over to look at the baby hamsters since I was at the pet store anyway.  All the hams were in their usual dog pile in one corner... except for one tiiiiiiny black bear all huddled up in the far corner. 

'Aw, lonely black bear' I thought, scooping it up.  After a brief attempt at jumping to freedom the little thing settled right in, all big ears and big eyes... and big sides. 

Now it's hard to tell with hamsters but this one sure looked pregnant and I thought 'crap, she's way too young and way too small to be pregnant.  That's life threatening kind of stuff.  And they've got her in the cage with the other hams too so we're talking high stress and if she manages to have babies, and she doesn't eat them, the others will'. 

So I brought her up to the front and pointed it out to the woman - and offered to buy her.  The woman flipped the little ham over on her back to get a good look at her and mentioned that the nipples hadn't popped yet so she had a couple more days until she gave birth.  I got a travel cage to go - since I was on my way to work - and off we all went.  Cute ham, sweet ham, very attentive and intelligent ham.  Got awwwed over a lot at work.  I brought her home and introduced her to the other hams and Ralf ATTACKED!!! her!  Luckily I've got fast hands - and hams - and so no harm was done but I found it kind of odd that my sweet, dense, laid back dude was aggressive.  Still, I settled her into a new house and she made it a point that, no matter the hour or day, if I walked into the room, she'd be by the door to greet me.  Her cage door, not my bedroom door.

Well, long story short, a few days later I suspected the ham wasn't pregnant after all, which was an obvious relief, and about two days before I left I realized why - and why pregnancy was NEVER going to happen to this one.  That's right, new years eve had apparently arrived and the ball (balls) had suddenly dropped. 

Yep, that's right.  Needless to say - 'Bonnie' needed a name change.  I wanted to go with Robin the Boy Wonder - but he wouldn't answer to it.  Bert however, he did answer to and so now I have a tiny Prince Albert in a Can (which is a monumentally ancient gag I would be surprised if anyone knew).  So there I am - three black bears, two of them boys when I'd sworn I wouldn't get boy hamsters.  Albert is being super attentive and sweet however and Booth absolutely adores him - even if he does try to hump her face because he's still working out how that thing goes...



ps - he not only cross dresses, he also thinks he's a bat-ham

Comments

[laura-josephsen.livejournal.com]

HEEEE! That is so funny. And very awesome. LOL. (Is it sad that when you said pregnant hamsters I thought of a silly one-shot I wrote where I inflicted characters with a pregnant hamster and I was afraid your story would go into some hamster infestation and that you were finding hamsters in your bed and...*shuts up* I obviously have an overactive imagination. And way too much caffeine in my system.)

The pics of your hamsters are soooo adorable.

[knit-lace.livejournal.com]

Is the fic about Marlene bringing home a hamster over the weekend?

[laura-josephsen.livejournal.com]

It is. ;)

[knit-lace.livejournal.com]

Loved that fic. :)

[laura-josephsen.livejournal.com]

Thanks! ^_^

[kitsune13-tam.livejournal.com]

heh, I remember that one too. I kept thinking... 'they're saying hamster infestation as if it's a bad thing' lol ;) I think the hamster joke even carried over into another chapter or two later on in that collection if I remember right. It was fun and I especially got secret chortles over it.

and thanks. It's freaking hard to get them to stay still long enough to get a picture that isn't just a fuzzy blur (pun intended)

[knit-lace.livejournal.com]

I don't know much about hamsters, but the balls dropping incident is amusing and confusing. I was going whaat the whole time. How old is Albert?

[kitsune13-tam.livejournal.com]

lol - yeah, hams go through puberty fast. At this point, he's probably about a month old. Given their short lifespan I suppose it's a 'do it all NOW' mindset - lol. I'd feel more stupid about not realizing he was male when I got him if the pet store clerk hadn't actually flipped him over on his back and stared at him upside-down hard enough to look for his nipples. Figure that means she would have noticed certain other... assets had there been there and I was just being stupid and missing them at that point.

[windrider1.livejournal.com]

**dies**

Ah. yes, this made my morning. Fun stuff with hammies. :P

[kitsune13-tam.livejournal.com]

got to say, that's one of the reasons I keep coming back to them. They always make me laugh. And sigh in exasperation sometimes... but mostly laugh.

[amethyst-key.livejournal.com]

LOL.

You have the best hamsters. EVER.

[kitsune13-tam.livejournal.com]

they are a lot of fun :D the vet doesn't even bother go and get his gloves anymore when I come in with one of them. Just knows they're going to be sweet. I suspect it's because they're spoiled rotten all their lives but that might just be me ;)

[momcalling.livejournal.com]

Recliner chair person and I loved this! Never seen it.
And re: Bert: yeah, yeah. And "Hey Store Man! You got pop on ice?......Well you better get him outta there. He'll be froze!!" thx mc

[kitsune13-tam.livejournal.com]

ahhh, the precursors to 'is your refrigerator running?... well, you'd better go catch it!' ;) Little Prince Albert however does get out of his can pretty often at my house so I guess it all comes around. :)