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Ivan’s Hamsterification Halted
This is my stepcat: While Matt is away, Ivan stays with me. In the past, Ivan’s stay has produced some weird behaviour. It must have been the hamsters. Hamsters, in their domesticated environment, use...
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Lucian vs. Calamari
This is Lucian: He’s usually very fussy about food. His mouth is gaping open. What has he noticed here? It’s cuttlefish! This shit’s good! Hands off, punk! Come back here! You’re not getting away!...
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Hamsters that Mean Business
Above: My former, very much feral hamster, Crenguţă. Matt found this passage in David Foster Wallace’s 1996 novel Infinite Jest (page 93): It’s a herd of feral hamsters, a major herd, thundering...
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Games that Hamsters Refuse to Play
Matt and I thought we came up with the cleverest game ever to play with a hamster. We thought the hamsters would play along. Hamsters really like to make nests out of tissue paper; my hamsters get a...
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The Hamster Tippler
Lucian the Hamster is always curious about what we’re up to, er, he’s interested in what we’re eating. For example, on Friday night we were drinking juice in his vicinity. He has to go check it out. He...
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The Waning of Lucian
I took this photo of Lucian on Friday night: It was only on Saturday night when I edited it, when I could enlarge his eye, that I saw that there was something wrong with it. Hamsters, for you...
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Lucian’s Funeral
This morning at 10:30 am, after procrastinating for a long time, I buried Lucian in a corner of our neighbourhood park: With my new trowel, I managed to get only about 5 cm into the ground below a...
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Francisco & Jesús
This is Paco: Paco is a pet name for Francisco. But he went directly to being a Paco (and sometimes a Paquito) without ever having gone through being called a Francisco. He’s a guinea pig, you see, and...
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Ivan’s Identity Issues
It’s not the first time Ivan has identified with our rodent friends. He has always been fascinated with our hamsters: He noted, for example, that hamsters line their beds with toilet paper. Here’s...
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A couple days ago, I had a dream. Lucian, my handsome little hamster, was still alive, yet I realized I hadn’t been feeding him for the months I thought he was dead. I ran through the house...
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