Peanut's cage extension

hi everyone,

thanks for viewing my blog! I noticed that ' the 10 cage escapes of Peanut ' is now in my list of the 5 most popular posts on my blog. So yeah, anyway, those who have read ' the 10 cage escapes of Peanut ' will have noticed at the end that I said i would extend Peanut's cage with an add-on.
So here is Peanut exploring her new addition to her cage. (A Habitrail OVO suite kit)
Enjoy!

Here is an overall view of Peanuts cages

So, Peanut has found the hamster cookie i put in one of her cages new 'pods'




















Peanut  wouldn't call this add-on a cage though...

Glad Peanut likes it anyway. I have noticed Peanut's favourite
pod is the main orange one...
(Normally this orange pod would have a wheel included with it,
but i removed the wheel to give Peanut more space and also because
Peanut doesn't use a wheel very much.)

I also captured some images of Peanut climbing up the tubes
to get back to her tank...

Doesn't Peanut look cute in this photo?

Peanut's always sniffing for treats...

So Peanut has now settled into her new extended cage.
She seems to enjoy the extension a lot, as She has now
moved her nest into the orange pod!

That's the latest news about Peanut,
keep in touch with me on Google+ for more hamster (and gerbil) stories!

Another post sometime soon,

Hamstergirl

The 10 cage escapes of Peanut

hi everyone,

apologies for not updating. I don't think I'll want to update regularly anymore.
Anyway, I have a better idea for a blog post so I am cancelling the 'Peanut chat' series.
Anyway, hope you enjoy this post!

Here are 10 tales of Peanut escaping from her cage:

1. When Peanut was a young hamster (about 6 1/2 months old)
She was super-bored, biting the cage bars, running around and then she noticed that the cage door hadn't been closed properly. She monkey-barred up her cage and pushed at the cage door. She managed to get it open and ran around the house excitedly. Thankfully, I managed to catch her.

2. Then the next evening, Peanut pushed at the door of the cage and got of her cage. I put her back in but she simply escaped again. There was an awful lot of chaos trying to catch her before she entered my brothers room....

3. So then I tied the cage door to the bars of her cage. But Peanut was an enthusiastic chewer and she chewed through that string in no time. She escaped again, having a very adventurous time out of her cage.

4. After the above tactic failed, I placed a weight on the cage door to stop her pushing the cage door open. But Peanut, being very clever, used her nose to push the weight off the door and escape yet again!

It eventually got to the point where Peanut was attempting to escape every night! So i put her in a glass tank. But she HATED it. (now i think about it, she hadn't settled in properly so of course she would hate it) So then I threw away her old cage ( it was third hand now ) and paid a visit to my local Pets at home shop...

where I got her a blue cage, where she lived until Sat Feb 22nd 2014. But even this 'more secure' cage wasn't entirely escape-proof!

5. One night, when i had just handled Peanut, Peanut was begging to be handled again. I couldn't so she monkey-barred upside down on the cage bars. she pushed at the door and managed to squeeze out! Thankfully, i spotted she'd escaped and managed to catch her before she went off to explore.

Peanut lived in the blue cage for quite a while, from September 2013 this was before i began this blog so that's why there are no photo's of her first ever cage. But then earlier this year i realised her cage just wasn't big enough for her. She was fully grown by then and actually larger than an average Syrian hamster. So i paid another visit to my local Pets at Home shop...

and bought her a new orange cage which was bigger and better than her old blue one. She has lived in this cage for quite some time until recently, when she escaped yet again...
(If your interested about how Peanut felt being in it at first, click on this link to go to the post where i introduced it to you viewers for the first time http://lifeofhamsterblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/peanuts-new-cage.html )

6.Peanut lived happily in her orange cage for some time but eventually, she got fed up with it and wanted out. So she monkey-barred on the cage and lent back her head to push open the door, only she fell off the bars. I never thought Peanut would be able to escape the orange cage but she did. The next moment I looked up, I saw an open cage door,and my clever little hamster on top of the cage, looking around. I put her back in her cage but she escaped again. I didn't know what to do...

7/8/9 Peanut escaped 3 more times by the same method, before i went and put her in a new glass tank.Below are some pictures of Peanut's old orange cage

Then I realised it was unsafe to house a hamster in a cage they can escape from... so i put her in a nice big tank full of sawdust with some toys. She escaped the first time i put her in and now...

10:Only a couple of days ago, Peanut escaped again!She escaped by climbing up the water bottle in her tank and jumping off the table where her new tank is.I found her running around the room where she's kept, at 10:00 pm at night. Now i have put a ventilated lid on her new tank, she can't escape.

So now her tank is escape-proof, I am extending it with an add-on cage to keep Peanut interested.
I will let you know how she gets on soon! (If she hasn't already escaped again...)





















So thats all 8 times Peanut has escaped from her cages.
Another post later,

Hamstergirl

Peanut chat 1 - life after Snowball

hi everyone,

I am starting a new series of blog posts,
starting with today's one - Peanut chat 1!

Okay , so Peanut what are your thoughts about
life now Snowbi's passed away...


















well, erm, actually its not just you and me...

On Tuesday this week, I bought two Gerbils!
Their names are Jerry and Jack. In the picture
below, here's Jerry...
( this'll be my  last mention of my gerbils
 on this blog - it's called
life of hamster for a reason )


































It's good to see Peanut acting naturally territorial  to new pets
but don't worry Peanut - u won't be meeting them - I remember
when u bit Snowbi on the nose through your cage bars!

anyway - next question -  do you miss Snowball,
Peanut?

















I see.

Well its good your thinking positively, Peanut.

Very true Peanut. And as i don't plan to blog about
my Gerbils currently, I'll blog every week.

back next week, with another Peanut Chat,

Hamstergirl

p.s important updates  for those on social media :
i have updated my Google+ and Pinterest names,
so here's the details :
on Google+ i am now: Laura Animalgirl
on Pinterest i am now : Laura Petgirl
just to let you know.

RIP Snowball - a tribute to her life

hello everyone,
unfortunately, i have some very sad news.
I could tell yesterday that she wasnt't well ( refusing to eat,drink,do anything other than sit with eyes shut)
but even so it was a nasty surprise to find she had died today.

Snowball played an important part in the posts of this blog, ever since she first appeared on the blog,
on 05/11/2013 ( click to go to that post ) She was a very happy little hamster and has never been bad-tempered to me or my sister, even when she didn't fancy getting her picture taken.

Snowbi had a good life and was 2 4/5 years old when she died. She was a wonderful little hamster and had a good life.

below i have put links to some of the posts Snowbi appeared in and some pictures of her from my computer.

Hifa world cup!
the 10 names of Snowball
snowbi and peanut take part in a game show!
snowball's tea party
new camera

 this photo is of Snowbi when she was a young hamster- only a few months old! Didn't she look so adorable?

Snowbi enjoying some playtime with my sister.

 Snowbi again - 1 year older.

 Snowbi having some playtime in my sisters room.

 Snowbi celebrating her first birthday!
( well, it was more of an anniversary - we were never told Snowball's birthday so we celebrated it on august 16th - the day we bought her from the pet shop )















This is Snowbi, a lot older, 2 1/2 years old.

in my opinion, this is one of the best pictures I have ever taken of Snowbi.








here is Snowbi again, when she was young and lively.

One of Snowball's favourite toys was her hamster ball and she never got bored of it, even if it did look like a tangerine...












overall, Snowball's life was a happy one. She loved her life and i think thats why she lived longer than an average dwarf hamster ( average life span of dwarf hamster - 1 year - 1 yr 1/2 )

RIP Snowball - rest in peace 

bye for now,
Hamstergirl

Snowbi's obstacle course

Hello everybody!
I am back for the now but will be away next week too.
but anyway, today i had some spare time on my hands
and what better way to use it than making an obstacle course for Snowbi?
so thats just what i did.

this is the view from above  it...

and heres the start...

are you ready to go, Snowbi?

I have filmed her progress through the course below,
( for best performance and/or you cant view on mobile devices plz view on a computer)

afterwards, while  my sister handled Snowball,
I took Peanut out for a run in the grass
( because she was full of energy and was wanting to come out )
Peanut was having too much fun to talk!

bye for now, might do another post later this week.

Hamstergirl

The 10 names of Snowball

hi everyone!

remember how in my last post, I noted that Snowball had 8 nicknames?
well heres a list of them all, with some photos old and new! ( 10 in total )


1st Name -official name : Stephanie ( My sister named her after a friend of hers )
she got this name when she was bought - i reckon she was about 6 months old.

2nd name : Stephy ( shorter ) 

she earnt this name soon after she was bought about 3/4 years old.

 

 3: The Little Snowball 

she has white fur, and she sleeps all curled up into a ball,

so this nickname suited her perfectly!

4 : Snowball 

This is the name i call her on the blog! ;-)

5: Snowbi 

6 : Sugar mouse

She earnt this nickname 'cos my sister thought she looked

very mouse-like

7 : Snowbicus

i'm not sure where this name originated from, 

but my sister gave it to her too.

8: Snowbi hamster - my nickname for her!

9 : Stephan - from when we thought she was a boy at one point.

10 : Snowbitude : a wierd name given by my sister to Snowball.

So thats all 10 names of Snowball.

An important  note before i go :

Lifeofhamster is off for the Summer holidays!

Peanut and Snowball will be looked after while i'm on

my Summer holidays.

see you after my holiday,

Hamstergirl