AS I SAID ON SUNDAY, I did sleep a long, long time... 10pm Saturday till 6pm Sunday. Though I did awaken in the middle of that and have highly entertaining times playing with my tubby trotters as they rambled all three at once on their wheel... I even promised them a "pet pygmy mouse"... (imagine that... who would take Mousie for walks? Baby Itchy holding the leash..?) At one point I took the the wheel out, so the three ended up running anticlockwise circuits, like a pygmy hamster Grand National... They were fairly well-behaved compared to normal: Bashful only tried to bite me once; Spherical still affects to be utterly terrified of my mere presence... though she will surreptitiously sneak up and sniff my hand when she thinks I'm not looking... and is content to sleep with her head poking right out of the biggest toilet tube... so she's not that scared. No Mongolian Pygmy Hamster (that's what Roborovskis are) would dare relax head-out-of-burrow in the wild! They'd swiftly get eaten!! I am slightly concerned about Itchy as I've had her for over 6 months now, surely she is fully grown... and yet weightwise ~ she is half the size of Spherical! This is all very cute, and does make her look more like a Porkshire Terrier than anyone else when she's been licked and groomed and her fur bashed up... but she is most certainly underweight and I'm not sure why... or how... or whether it's a bad thing... or whether even I should breed her with a tiny male robo to produce an ultra-tiny pygmy hamster strain!***
DID NO-ONE LIKE MY STARWARS VIDEO? It is fantastic... if it's no longer up above then have a click (here) yourself...
Monday's Video of the Day:
Sleepy Kitten (short and very sweet indeed..!)
I can't ever see the videos as I blog here at work. :(
ReplyDeleteWhat made you get so interested in these creatures? YOur entire interest in them is interesting and strange./ I mean, why pygmy hamsters or chinese hamsters- why not whales or porcupines or some exotic animal that hardly anybody has in their house but is barely legal? In seattle they only recently made it legal to have a goat as a pet..
ReplyDeleteplease stop by my page again some time. I think you will have something to say this time
My new firewall won't let me get videos, but I will take your word that they are good.
ReplyDeleteI viewed the videos! Enjoyed them very much I must say.
ReplyDeleteGledwood, you asked about heather and heatherline on one of my most recent postings. There is no heather in the Rockies of North America that I know of. There are srub like willows that are common in the Rockies. One type is arctic willow which can be seen in the foreground of this photo posted on my blog. I'm glad you liked the photo of the pika. It is the only pika I have ever been able to take a picture of. The things never sit still long enough as they ping all over the alpine tundra. I do enjoy watching the pikas whenever I'm in the mountains.
ReplyDeleteThe Star Wars was fun and the kittie is so cute.
ReplyDeleteI always liked the Star Wars flicks. The 'old spice' music was taken from Carmina Burana, an absolutely wonderful ballet that I saw last year in Philadelphia. It was a premiere of a new choreography and so fabulous I know if it comes next year, I'll be wanting tickets bad.
ReplyDeleteCan't really say I'm into techno, but the original music is obviously very powerful so I'm sure it's inspiring to many and they did a decent job on this.
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ReplyDeleteI don't think you should breed your tiny hampster it might go wrong, and it would break your heart if it killed her.
Janice~
hi gleds, just quickly breezing in to reply to your comment re the flag. I like the fact that most people here don't want to change it - it's part of the history of this country - as young as it is in comparison to UK and Europe. People have fought and died under the flag it means a lot to many people and it should be respected - I don't believe history should be messed around with *!*
ReplyDeleteI'll pop back to see your videos and catch up on your posts *!*
My kids want hamsters, by I have hard enough tiem trying to keep my house clean, let alone a hamsters cage!
ReplyDeleteOh these animals u speak of are too adorable.
ReplyDelete20 hours of sleep mate? TWENTY HOURS?! WOW! I mean, WOW!
Hello Gled! I'm terribly behind in the blog department. The good news is that we might actually get our own internet connection end of this week (Then I'll have more time)! Fingers crossed! I'm just busy with unpacking boxes that we shipped from Amsterdam and preparing a CV for a job I'd like to apply for. Hope you're having a good week! N.
ReplyDeleteThat sleepy kitten is the size my 13 pound fur ball was when I first got her. She still sleeps just like that too. On her back, in my arms. sweet!
ReplyDeleteWhat you like, Porkshire terrier! hope things are going OK sweetheart.
ReplyDeleteI liked the lightsabre fight it really fit with the music well.
ReplyDeletePatti: haven't you got a computer at home..? You can always watch with the sound down...
ReplyDeleteIvy: hamsters... yeah up until the 90s they were considered children's pets... now they're really trendy with young urban professionals as their housing's so compact... why hamsters? Well I'd really have liked tropical fish but the zillions of litres of water, plus pumps, filters, tubes, lights, heaters etc etc makes 'em a bit complicated for me at the moment... hamsters are the nearest thing to real live soft toys you can get... my robos are the only pets I've ever had where the novelty's not worn off even 1% they are so incredibly entertaining you would not believe it... also they're definitely NOT pets for children. Too little, too fast, too wriggly! And they don't like being handled!
ZenWizz: hang on then your firewall's semi defeating the object... if it won't let things through you DO want... know what I mean..??
Preposterous: do tell if you like today's pika....
Molson: hey just for you I posted up pikas on youtube!
ReplyDeleteNessa: the Star Wars is excellent, isn't it~?!?
Crystal: when I mentioned "old spice music" I wasn't sure whether anyone outside these British isles would get what I meant... was that ad on in America too? the one with the guy surfing that enormous roller....
Janice: hmmm I know what you mean she is so tiny she might explode if she got preggers with little pink maggot baby robbies...
Bimbimbie: that was a great comment on the flag I'm totally with you there
ReplyDeleteVi: oh you only have to clean out their toilet corner regularly ... the rest can keep for once a fortnight really though the books will claim once a week is best... they really aren't much of an imposition... houseplants are FAR more difficult to look after!
Wat: hmmmm FAR TOO MUCH sleep... I know... maybe I'm turning INTO a hamster...
Nicole: Best of luck with getting reconnected! Congratulations!!
JimD: that was a really sweet vid wasn't it... I had a kitten so tiny she could sit on the palm of my hand like a hamster! We didn't buy her though, her mother gave birth in one of our outbuildings so we had the cats from a v young age
ReplyDeleteQueenie: I'm OK... yes Itchy is my Tiny Porkie!
Akelamalu: the lightsabring was amazing wasn't it!
I remember hearing the music was used in an old spice commercial but I don't remember actually seeing it. I'm sure it was here too.
ReplyDeleteI remember it from probably the late 70s early 80s in Britain it was an ad that ran for years and years... maybe 10 years or more... though in the end it was mostly on around Christmas time...
ReplyDeletefeatured a v tanned looking surfer... you could only see the human body shape no close ups and a MASSIVE rolling wave curling absolute classic rolling into shore...
that's the Old Spice Ad we used to get it wouldn't surprise me if it was the one you remember as the production values were v high they'd obviously spent a lot of money on that esp. for the time...
Gled, I like the Pika's!!
ReplyDeleteup until yesterday I thought pika meant 12 point typewriter font as opposed to elite, which is 10 point...
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